3A Week of January 11 Ms. Brown
Published by Ms. Brown (3A) January 9th, 2010 in Announcements.Spanish: page 15 due Friday, January 15
Religion: This week we study chapter 12: The Church’s Mission. In this chapter we will learn what the Mission of the Church is and how it is fulfilled. We will take the chapter test on Thursday. Last week we learned how the Church is one and holy. The children also learned about how saints are role models. The children were all assigned a saint and made a holy card and a prayer about the saint. Everyone did a great job! Also, we learned how the Holy Spirit unifies the Church and so we working on learning the Prayer to the Holy Spirit. I think we should all have it memorized in just a few days.
English/Writing: We continue on in Unit 4; this week we begin to study adverbs. In Writing we discussed our busy writing month of January. We continue on with winter break narratives and when they are completed we will begin our book reports. The book project hand out came home in this week’s Wednesday envelope. Remember the children are to select one book. They will produce a written report in school and their visual at home. Book projects are due on Thursday, January 28.
Science: This is the last week of Science for 3B students until the fourth quarter. This week all groups will present their life cycle reports to the class. The children did a great job of working on the webquest and gathering their information online. They have also been learning how to work cooperatively in a group with assigning roles and managing time. All groups have done a fine job!
Math: We continue on in Chapter 9 this week. Keep practicing multiplication flash cards at home. While the children have many strategies available to them to solve multiplication problems we still need to build proficiency. We will test out of Chapter 9 on Thursday and begin division the following week!
Reading: This week we follow our regular schedule. The Illustrators will read A Very Cool Place to Visit, and take a unit test on Friday. The Authors will read The Many Lives of Benjamin Franklin. They will also read a few leveled readers about him and go online to seek out even more information about Franklin. They will create a Benjamin Franklin brochure and share it with their classmates during the week of January 15. The Publishers will read The Bat Boy and His Violin. This is a great realistic fiction/historical fiction story. The story revolves around a young boy and his family in the summer of 1948. His father is the manager of a baseball team in the Negro Baseball League. This story affords us the opportunity to learn about the history of our nation and the civil rights movement. How fortunate we are to be reading this story the week before our Martin Luther King holiday. As usual all groups will write vocabulary stories, take story quizzes, and have a spelling test on Friday.
Handwriting: Our cursive is coming along nicely. We are almost done learning our upper case letters and should have our handwriting books completed in a couple of weeks. Over the next few weeks we will slowly begin to write things in cursive as we begin to make our transition. For some children this is an easy task and for others it is very difficult. Please do not worry, I will make sure that everyone eases into writing in cursive. Some of us will be able to write everything in cursive very soon and some of us will continue to practice and make a slower transition throughout the third quarter and that is just fine.
This week is the last week of the second quarter! The last day to take a quiz for accelerated reader for this quarter will be Thursday morning.
Report cards will come home on Wednesday, January 20.
This week we returned to school to find our SMART board installed and ready to go. We used it this week to play some fun multiplication games and the children enjoyed it. (and I must admit I am too!) We will begin to use the SMART board more each week as I begin to integrate it into our curriculum. Thank you to all who made SMART board technology available at SJA!
Fun things ahead for this week: Wednesday Hands On Science, Friday Arts Alive and our end of the quarter D.E.A.R. (drop everything and read) time. We will post DEAR time on our planner page in school and remind the children to bring plenty of good reading material and if they wish something comfortable to sit on.
It certainly looks and feels like January! Please remind your child to bundle up for school and bring their snow gear so they can play in the snow at recess time. All in all that should cover it –stay warm and have a great week!
