Dear
Families of Room 26,
Here
are a couple of important notes regarding activities at our school over the
next couple of weeks.
1. The Garden Faire is this Sunday from 11:00-3:00. Thank you to our PTA for organizing this wonderful event.
2. Next Thursday,
May 2, is Kiddo! Donation Day and we will be wearing our red, black, and/or
yellow to represent KIDDO! Thanks to financial support from KIDDO!, all third grade children have PE, Art, Chorus,
Music, Poetry, a Library aide, and classroom aides. As teachers, we are
grateful beyond words for your support of KIDDO! Please donate to Kiddo! to the extent
possible for your family on Donation Day so we can offer your kids the same
great education next year. Thanks in
advance for your participation!
3. The Edna Maguire Mustang Maker Night is Wednesday, May 15 from
5:00-8:00 in the multipurpose room. Thank
you to our PTA for bringing this opportunity to our students!
Please
let me know if you have any questions.
Regards,
Teresa
Shern
What We’re Working On:
· Mill Valley Then and Now History Project: Students have chosen
topics and are in the process of researching the “Then and Now” of their topics.
Our end product will be to write paragraphs based on our research. We’ll also make
a Google Slide presentation and students will present their information to the
class. We’re excited to showcase our work at Open House!
· Reading Comprehension: Using high interest non-fiction articles to
practice finding main ideas and answering key questions.
· Writing: We continue to write opinion
paragraphs and will soon begin writing persuasive pieces. We are also writing
our Mill Valley History paragraphs.
· Math: Our
work with fractions will continue, including fractions on a number line between
0 and 1 as well as mixed numbers between 1 and 2, understanding fractions as
numbers, and using fractions in number stories. We are also building our
understanding of liquid volume measurements. Our work with elapsed time and
telling time to the nearest minute continues. Students should continue to
memorize and practice their multiplication facts so that they become automatic.
· Science: We are currently in our Forces and Motion unit. Last week we
learned about the forces of pushing and pulling (tug-of-war and an exploding
watermelon!). We also examined how bridges are built. Students built paper bridges
with only two pieces of paper and then tested the bridges with pennies.
Students reengineered their bridges several times to see how many pennies they
could hold. Try it at home! This week, we’ll explore slides and how the forces
of gravity and friction work together to affect the speed at which we go down a
slide.
· Read Aloud: The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown
· Other Items: cursive, grammar, and
spelling continue.
