Weekly Update #33: April 30 - May 4

Announcements:

• Tie Dye Shirts: Please have your child bring in his or her white t-shirt for our Tie Dye Enrichment Activity by next Friday, May 11th. Shirts can be purchased at Walmart, Michael's, Target for inexpensive price. 
• PBL Showcase: We presented our PBL projects to 2nd, 4th and 5th grade students today!  See pictures below. Ask your child about how it went. :)
• STAAR Testing Dates: Monday, May 14 is STAAR Math and Tuesday, May 15 this STAAR Reading. 

​Upcoming Events:​​​​.​ ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

• May 7 - 11 Math Camp (math rotations in preparation for STAAR)
• May 7 - 11 is Teacher Appreciation Week! Show them some gratitude for all their hard work this year :)
• May 11 - Bring in a white t-shirt to tie dye for Field Day!!!  
• May 14 - STAAR Math Test
• May 15 - STAAR  Reading Test
• May 17 - Math DCA Unit 10 & Unit 11 (Multiplication and Place Value - larger numbers)
• May 18 - Science DCA Test Unit 11 (Life Cycles - plants and animals) 
• May 18 - Tie Dye t-shirts for Field Day 
• May 19 - All work must be turned in.  
• May 23 - Field Day: Wear your tie dye t-shirt!
• May 25 - Clean out your desk - Bring a reusable grocery bag to take supplies (folders, notebooks) home. 
• May 25 - Third Grade End-of-the-Year Party @ 1:30pm - 2:30pm
• May 28 - No School (Memorial Day)
• May 29 - Last Day of School
  
• May 29: Final School Spirit Assembly and Awards Recognition (DI, Math Pentathlon, Chess...) & Encore Talent Show for Students 7:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Cafeteria/Gym
  
  

​What's Been Happening In Class?  

• Writing: Our next unit is persuasive writing (letter writing). Then, the last week of school we will work on our cursive writing. 
• Reading:  This week we wrapped up our Book Clubs and did a biography reading passage with questions in preparation for STAAR. 
• Math: We continued to practice Multiplication (1 - digit by 2 - digit) using the associative properties strategy, doubling and halving strategy, area model strategy, partial products and the standard algorithm (cross multiplication). We wrapped up this unit with a quiz today. 
• Science:   We started our Life Cycles unit (plants and animals - frogs & ladybugs)
• Social Studies:  We chose an invention to research and began our Invention Google Drawings. We'll finish this up next week. 
• Enrichment: We celebrated filling our Class Dojo bucket with a Technology Day from 1:30 - 2:30pm and eating some cookie cake too!