We had a quick week with the day off on Monday and a snow day. We are hoping the weather starts to warm up and we will be able to get outside for some recess. The kids and I have been getting a little stir crazy:) This week we were able to go to the computer lab and start typing our penguin poems from our research. Tomorrow we will be making life size penguins in the afternoon. We also started a new novel in reading called Because of Winn Dixie. We will be working on this novel till Feb. 13th.

Next week is Catholic Schools Week. We will start off the week with seeing a presentation from Wildlife Encounters, have Mass on Wednesday at St. Leo, and Friday we will be going to see the 7th and 8th grade Speech and Drama Club perform in the gym. I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

English- quotation marks and commas

Reading- Because of Winn Dixie Novel

Religion- Pentecost and Rosary

Cursive- C and E

Social Studies- Immigration

Science- Fossils

Phonics- Complex words

Questions to Ask

• What is 2 X 9? 18
• Skip count by 2’s to 24.
• What is 5 x 6? 30
• Skip count by 5’s to 50.
• How did Winn Dixie get his name? from the grocery store he was running in
• What welcomed immigrants to the United States when they came by boats through New York? Statue of Liberty

Upcoming Dates

• Catholic Schools Week Monday, Jan. 27th-Jan. 31st
• CSW Mass at St. Leo- Jan. 29th (A-L at 8:30) (M-Z at 10:30)

I hope everyone had a great Christmas break! We came back on Tuesday and started by going down to the library to research penguins. Each student was assigned a type of penguin and we have been researching about them on the chrome books this week. The students have taken their research and made it into an acrostic poem about their penguin. We will be going down to the computer lab in 2 weeks to type our poems. We will finish this project off by having the students actually make life size penguins that will be displayed in a school hallway with their poem.

This week we also started keyboarding classes with Mrs. Preston in the computer lab. The students will be going down to the computer lab the next 6 weeks to practice keyboarding skills. They will continue to do keyboarding classes in 4th grade also. The times for keyboarding changes each day due to computer lab availability so at times students might miss out if they go to see another teacher when we are in the computer lab. The students will not be receiving a grade for these keyboarding classes so it is not a problem when they miss this class. This class is just to get them comfortable in learning the correct way to type.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Have a great weekend!

Reading- Talent Show and prefixes and suffixes

English- penguin Research in library

Cursive- reviewed lowercase letters

Religion- Epiphany

Social Studies- westward expansion, Lewis and Clark, and time lines

When we come back from break we will be starting a unit on penguins with Mrs. Vogel in the library. This is one of my favorite projects in 3rd grade and the students will research about a type of penguin. At the end of the project they will make a life size penguins at school.  I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I will see everyone back in 2020!