Colonial Christmas

Colonial Christmas

Sioux Tribe

Parent Letter

Dear Parents,


You have to read this letter! After you read this letter you will know what we did this week. First we are learning about the thirteen colonies. We are making maps of the thirteen colonies and putting different land forms we have studied about on the maps. On the 22nd we are going to have a colonial party. Our class will eat colonial food, play colonial games, and make a colonial craft. If you want to help out feel free to contact our teacher. Another thing we have done is made something special in art. It is a present for you so we can’t tell you what it is but we will give you some hints. It is made out of clay, floats in the air, and looks pretty. In conclusion we have had a most exciting week and can’t wait to be home with you over Christmas!


Happy Holidays,

Navajo

Parent Letter

Dear Parents,


You have to read this letter! This is what we have done this week. To begin with we have started to study about the thirteen colonies. Each of us are learning about a certain colony. Some of these colonies are Virginia, New York, Maryland, South Carolina, North Carolina, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Georgia, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Hampshire. We are learning about the land formations that are found in each colony. Next we have been learning about sentence fluency. To write with sentence fluency you need to make sure sentences have different beginnings. You also need to make sure that your writing needs to have short sentences and long sentences. As you can see we have completed a lot of work this week.



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Native Project

 

 

 

Student's have completed the native project. By completing the project they have learned valuable computer, writing, reading, researching, and collaborative skills. I will post their projects on the blog for review.

Conference Practice

 

 

 

Students prepared for student led conferences. Once again the conferences went very well and provided an opportunity for students and parents to reflect on academic progress.

Parent Letter

Dear Parents,


Do you know what we did this week? This week we have worked on many interesting projects. First, we all worked very hard on our Native research project and we are typing. Some of the people are typing slides about food while others are working on clothing. We have learned how to open a power point and how to insert a map. Another project we have worked on is in art we made turkeys. It was extremely complicated because you had to glue and cut paper. The paper had to be made into feathers and a body of a turkey. You will be surprised! Ooops! We have already said to much. As you can see we have had a busy week.


Sincerely,


Your Lovely Children

Weekly Letter

Please read this message and you will get one hundred dollars. Just kidding! You are about to learn several things that we did or learned this week. First this week we have been revising our drafts about the Native American tribes. When we revise we have a check list and we go over our writing to find any mistakes. Some the mistakes we fix are, our spelling, capitals, periods, amount of words in a sentence, and how our sentences start. Next we have worked on being ready for our conferences with you. All of us have written notes to help us when we talk to you. We have looked at our papers that tell us our scores in reading, writing, and math. Each one of us can’t wait for you to come and listen to us. In conclusion you should now understand we have had a busy week.

Second Step

 

Once a week at lunch time we have a speical guest that visits our room to talk about how to handle our feelings and what students can do to be kind to others.

Native Halloween

 

Native powwow!

 

Students built models of their native tribes shelter and spent the day playing native games, and eating native food.

Masks

 

Students have created excellent masks that could be found in various Native American tribes.

Masks

 

Mask Making

 

 

 

 

Hi this is a great picture

Parent Letter

Dear Parents,


This is a great letter so you must read it, if you do not you might have bad luck! Just kidding! This week we have had lots of fun. First we have had an awesome time making masks today. With our masks on we could hardly breathe! Even though we took the masks off our faces were still very white. The reason we made the mask is for a powwow we are going to have next Friday. Another thing about our week is we finished our notes about our Native American tribe. We finished taking notes about weapons, tools, homes, ceremonies, our tribe today, where they lived, food, and clothing. In our research we found many of the tribes used spears, bow and arrows. Our class learned a ton of information! As you can see we did a lot this week.


Sincerely,

Your Third Graders

Biodiverstiy Project

 

 

Students completed their first bio blitz a few weeks ago. The insects have now been saftly stored away and catergorized in an excel worksheet.

Insect Work

Insect Work

Insect

 

Students have completed working on thier bugs and have completed the first Bio Blitz of the year.

Class work

 

Students have been learning how to write complete sentences and what a salmon habitat looks like.

Salmon Fest

Reading

 

 

Students have been learning how to place a story in the correct sequence. They have done this by deciding what words show sequence in a story and writing the events in the correct order.

Parent Letter

September 11, 2009



Dear Parents,

Please make sure you read this letter. We have many important pieces of information to share with you. To begin with we started to learn our basic math facts. The types of math facts we are learning are doubles, plus one, and plus zero. We think these facts are easy because we learned them in second grade. This is a review. It is important we study the facts so we can pass our test in a few days. Also we have been learning how to write complete sentences. A complete sentence has a subject noun, verb, period, and capital at the beginning of the sentence. We are going to learn how to add more detail to our sentences later on. Finally we have been learning about lifecycles. The lifecycle our class has been studying is the amazing salmon. Did you know they have a yolk sac when they hatch? As you can see we have had a busy week learning about math facts, sentences, and the lifecycle of a salmon.



Sincerely,

Your Third Grader

PS The Salmon Fest is next Friday.

 

Students have been learning how to write complete sentences and what a salmon habitat looks like.

Parent Weekly Letter

September 4, 2009


Dear Parents,


This week was a great start of the school year for several reasons. First our class was being kind to one another. We are working in groups this year so it will be important to be respectful to each other. Another reason school has been great so far is we have had different enrichments. One of the enrichment times was PE. In PE we played capture the flag with Mr. Brown. Finally the school year has been really fun because we have been learning how to act like third graders. We learned all kinds of procedures like what to do during a fire drill. As you can see we had a great start of the school year.




Sincerely,

Your Brand New Third Grader

Class Schedule

2009-2010
Class Schedule

8:00-8:10 Entry Task
8:10-8:40 Morning Meeting/Math Meeting
8:40-9:40-Math
9:40-10:40-Reading
10:40-10:50-Spelling
10:50-11:00-Break
11:00-11:45-Writing
11:45-12:45-Lunch/Recess
5th period 12:45-1:51-Science/Social Studies/Enrichment
6th period 1:51-2:35-Science/Social Studies/Enrichment
2:35-2:55-Planners/Homework/Clean Up

5th and 6th period change each day