Next week on Thursday we will be taking part in the first Mission Day in the morning by helping clean St. Pius Parishioners yards and also around the school with 6th grade. If you volunteered to help I will be sending you an email soon with more information. A permission slip went home today. Please sign it and return it to me by Tuesday. This day will be a cold lunch day-NO HOT LUNCH WILL BE SERVED so please make sure your child brings a cold lunch. We will be having a picnic on the soccer fields with our 6th grade partners. Thursday will also be a dress down day. When they are dressing down remember we will be working outside in yards so make sure your child wears the appropriate clothes. Your child can bring a water bottle for when we are working outside if they like.

     We had a marvelous week in 3A! This week we read a story about a boom town. In the story the main character makes pies to help her family who has moved out West during the Gold Rush. She starts her own pie business with the help of her family and eventually suggest to people to start their own businesses. Due to the suggestions a boom town happens. They were able to make some wonderful connections between the story and the Junior Achievement topic this week.  The students had a chance to make their own mini pies. The could pick apple, cherry, or just the crust with whipped cream. Some realized that cherry pie filling isn’t as sweet as they thought it would be. All of them enjoyed the whipped cream! I have attached some pictures of them with their pies.

     We also had a chance to go to Reconciliation this week and ask God for forgiveness. This helped us prepare for Holy Week. We will be going down to Stations of the Cross next week with our 6th grade partners to also prepare us and remind us how Jesus died on the cross for us. I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Math-Fractions-equivalent, comparing, and ordering

English-Pronouns

Reading-Boom Town, fact and opinion

Guided Reading-started end of year testing

Social Studies-Inventors

Science-Test on Tuesday, April 16th for Ms. Petersen

Phonics- Inflectional endings and contractions

Cursive- I and J

Religion- Stations of the Cross

Junior Achievement-Running a business

Handwriting Camp-Worked on fine motor skills by doing exercises with clothespins

• Which fraction is greater 2/4 or 1/8? 2/4
• What is the pronoun in this sentence? He plays on a soccer team. He
• Who invented pasteurization? Louis Pasteur
• What is the contraction for would not? wouldn’t
• What business did your group start in JA? What was your job?
• What pie did you make? apple, cherry, or just crust with whipped cream

• No School- April 18th, 19th, and 22nd
• Stations of the Cross- April 16th at 8:30
• Science Test- April 16th
• Pep Rally-April 17th

We had a great week in 3A! The students enjoyed going down to the library and researching a country for the World Tour Project. We will be taking this research and going to the computer lab after Easter to make a slide show about their country. Mrs. Engel continued to teach the student in JA and they talked about all the ways you can pay. This week we also were able to hear presenter ValLimar Jansen. ValLimar is a presenter who uses scripture, music, song and storytelling to teach scripture. The students enjoyed listening to her.

We have started the 4th quarter and some of the 4th quarter graders have been entered. Remember to keep studying the multiplication and division facts now and into the summer to prepare for 4th grade. Also spelling list come home each week on Monday. If your child doesn’t bring one home they are located on our classroom website so you child can be prepared for the test on Friday. You probably have noticed that more papers are coming home completed in cursive. We will continue to do this to get ready for 4th grade when the students will write in cursive all the time. I hope you have a wonderful weekend! Let me know if you have any questions.

Reading- Because of Winn Dixie

English-World Tour Research

Social Studies-Inventors

Science-Forces

Phonics- Contractions

Religion- Stations of Cross

Junior Achievement-Ways to pay

Handwriting Camp-Tow truck letters (The ending sticks out like a tow and they never bend down to pick up another letter.)

Questions to Ask

• If you ate 2 pieces out of the 8 pieces of a pizza what fraction shows the amount you ate? 2/8
• What country did you research?
• What did you learn about your country?
• Who helped Jesus carry his cross? Simon
• Who invented the telephone? Alexander G. Bell

Upcoming Dates:

• Divide by 10’s Test- April 9th
• Reconciliation-April 12th
• Stations of the Cross- April 16th
• No School- April 18th, April 19th, and April 22nd