Curriculum Update April 22-26

I hope everyone had an enjoyable and relaxing weekend. Hopefully we will get some warmer weather soon.
Please remember we are taking a field trip to Ernie Miller Nature Center on Wednesday. Your child will need a sack lunch.

We will have Spring MAP testing Monday, Tuesday and Thursday this week from 9:00-10:30.

Thank you to everyone for making sure the first section's for your child's science fair were turned in Friday. Please note the educated guess is due on Wednesday, April 24.


Friday, April 19- Topic/Purpose due
Wednesday, April 24- Educated Guess due
Monday, April 29- Process due
Friday, May 3- Data from experiment due
Friday, May 3- Conclusion due
Monday, May 6- Pictures, titles, and everything typed due
Wednesday, May 8- Final project completed
Friday, May 10- Third Grade Science Fair- 2:15-3:30 pm, you are welcome to attend

Reading: We will continue our global recycling reading project this week. The students are really learning a lot about recycling around the world. Some of the groups have been able to e-mail contacts in their countries and Skype with them.

Spelling: The Rigby list will focus on adding the suffix -ly to the end of a word.
List 1: softly, clearly, closely, daily, fatherly, fearfully, happily, absolutely, absently, deeply
List 2:carefully, lately, joyfully, duly, lily, regretfully, trolley, abruptly, cooperatively, diligently
List 3: able (able to be) acceptable, detachable, honorable, imaginable, laughable, portable, refundable, renewable, repairable, washable

Writing: We will continue our poetry focus. We are still working on our figurative language poems.

Math: We will begin perimeter this week.The students will understand perimeter and use tools and units for perimeter.

Science: We will begin learning about the various states of matter (liquid, gas, solid).

Have a wonderful week!