Weekly Update #34: May 7 - May 11

Announcements:

• Thank you: A huge thank you to Ivey's mom (Heather Cox) for decorating my door (with the help of Dylan's dad) and creating an amazing "star wars" themed gift from the whole class for me. Thank you all for contributing to this gift. I absolutely love it!!  
• Tie Dye Shirts: We will tie dye our shirts next Friday, May 18th. If you want to come and help at 1:30pm please just message me on Class Dojo. Thanks!
• STAAR Testing Dates: Monday, May 14 is STAAR Math and Tuesday, May 15 this STAAR Reading. A huge STAAR information email went out yesterday. Please, take a look for it and read it with your child. 

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

• May 14 - STAAR Math Test
• May 15 - STAAR  Reading Test
• ​May 16 - Last Scholastic Book Order Due - Get your summer reading!!!
• 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 continued do a number of reading passages 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 also did some STAAR review by rotating to 4 different classrooms for "Math Camp" this week. Test is next Thursday. 
• Science:   We continued our Life Cycles unit (plants and animals - frogs & ladybugs). Test is next Friday.
• Social Studies:  We chose an invention to research and began our Invention Google Drawings. We'll finish this up next week. 
• Enrichment: We spent time with our Kinder Buddies!!