Upcoming Week 3/9-3/13

First of all, thank you for your patience as we wade through these uncharted waters. As a parent, I know how unsettling it feels right now, and as a teacher, I am grateful to you for putting your trust in me, in Eastgate, and in BSD. I promise I am doing everything I can to keep your students, first and foremost, healthy at school, and secondly, calm during this very confusing time. Please be in touch if there's anything I can do for you. At this time, we are going to continue our routines as normally as possible. We will let you know if things change in the days to come.

Here's what we'll be working on this week.

Important Dates:

• Wednesday - Gem Jar PJ/Hot Chocolate/Movie Party
• Our scheduled Virtues Assembly will not be an in-person student recognition

Curriculum Coming Up

Reading

• Conclusions
• Adjectives That Compare
• Words with /j/ and /s/

Writing

• Beginning SBA Practice

Math

• Reading and Create Pictographs and Bar Graphs
• Read and Create Bar Graphs with Multidigit Numbers
• Represent and Organize Data
• Use Graphs to Solve Time and Measurement Problems

Social Studies

• Diversity in the United States
• Cultures Around the World

Again, please don't hesitate to reach out if there's anything I can do for you. I can't promise that I'll have all the answers but I will do my best to find them for you. Wash your hands, and please stay healthy.

Upcoming Week 3/2-3/6

March already?! How did this happen?? I know I say this every week, but time is absolutely flying. It must be a sign that I'm having fun. Thank you to everyone who helped make the Valentines party a success, especially Kristianna and Kelly for organizing and planning it.

Important Dates:

• March 21 - Eastgate PTA Auction :)

Curriculum Coming Up:

Reading

• Story Structure
• What are Adjectives and Articles?
• Words with air, ear, and are
• Vowel + /r/ sounds in air and fear

Writing

• Wrapping up country reports
• Beginning SBA practice

Math

• Elapsed Time
• Add and Subtract Time
• Solve Word Problems Involving Time

Social Studies

• Diversity in the United States
• Cultures Around the World

I hope you all had a wonderful mid-winter break and are happy to be back at school. :) Please reach out if there's anything I can do for you.

Upcoming Week 2/10-2/14

Phew, I'm so glad the rain let up for a bit this weekend. Hopefully you've been able to enjoy the sunshine and didn't have to spend the weekend cleaning up after Friday night's storm. This is our last week before Midwinter Break and it's a busy one, ending with our Valentine's Party on Friday. Hopefully you saw the sign-up genius to help with that, and hope to see many of you there on Friday! Here's what's coming up.

Important Dates:

• Thursday - Virtues assembly (Integrity) at 9:30
• Friday - Valentine's Party from 12-1:30
• Friday - Report cards sent home
• Next week - Midwinter Break - no school

Curriculum Coming Up

Reading

• Author's Purpose
• Pronoun-Verb Agreement
• Words with ar, or, ore
• Vowel + /r/ sounds

Writing

• Country reports

Math

• Customary Units of Weight and Metric Units of Mass
• Word Problems Involving Liquid Volume and Mass
• Tell Time
• Before and After the Hour

Science

• Tops
• Rolling a Cart from Here to There

We'll start cursive capital letters this week, and I love seeing the kiddos practicing their cursive and improving all the time. In case you've forgotten, I love your kids. :) Enjoy the rest of the weekend and the sun!

Upcoming Week 2/3-2/7

I'm looking forward to a "normal" five day week! Feels like we haven't been to school on a Monday in ages! Friday was the halfway point in the school year and I'm so sad it's halfway done! I hope time slows down just a little bit for the rest of the year so I can enjoy every minute with this kids. <3 One quick note about Valentine's Day: The letter I sent home yesterday said not to send any candy to school. I promised the kids I would tell you that if candy is attached to the Valentine, that's fine. I just didn't want any random candy coming in. That being said, Valentines with things other than candy would be best. Nobody will be allowed to eat any candy at school. Thank you for your understanding.
Here's what's coming up this week.

Important Dates:

Monday - STAR reading assessment

Curriculum Coming Up:

Reading

• STAR reading assessment
• Compare and Contrast
• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Contractions with n't, 'd, 've
• Contractions

Writing

• Country Research
• Note-taking

Math

• Customary Units of Length
• Customary Units of Liquid Volume
• Metric Units of Liquid Volume
• Customary Units of Weight and Metric Units of Mass

Science

• Predicting Motion of New Systems
• Twirly Birds
• Tops

We'll also be finishing the lower case cursive alphabet this week, so please encourage your kiddos to write in cursive whenever possible. They are expected to use cursive in class now, except for capital letters, so any extra practice is super helpful. Please reach out with any questions or concerns. Have a great Super Bowl weekend!

Upcoming Week 1/28-1/31

I hope you enjoyed your extra day off today. I'm working at home and am trying to be productive in the midst of all the distractions! One update I have for you is that we have a Teaching Academy intern from Newport High School working in our room for the remainder of the year. Miss Lainey is a senior at Newport and was in my class in third grade! She asked to come back and explore the possibility of a career in teaching, so of course, I couldn't say no. She is a huge asset to our classroom and the students have welcomed her with open arms, as I knew they would. :)
Read on for an update on what's to come this week.

Important Dates:

• Thursday - Third Grade Living Voices Presentation at 10:00

Curriculum Coming Up

Reading

• Theme
• Writing Quotations
• Homophones and Words Ending in -er and -le
• Spelling Homophones

Writing

• Country Report Research
• Notetaking

Math

• Unit 2 Test (we didn't get to it last week)
• Beginning Unit 3
• Customary Units of Length

Science

• Wheel and Axle Systems
• Predicting Motion of New System

Social Studies

• Living Voices special presentation on Immigration

That's it for this short week. As always, please reach out with any questions or concerns you have. (Thank you once again for lending me your kids for the year. I've said it so many times, but I just adore them and love coming to school everyday. <3)

Upcoming Week 1/21-1/24

We're having a redo of last week! All that snow last week put our weekly plans on hold, including the Martin Luther King assembly. So, take two! Let's try it again! :) (See last week's post for specifics on what we'll be doing in the week ahead.)

Upcoming Week 1/13-1/17

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful break and enjoyed the holiday season with your families. I enjoyed a lot of quiet time and stayed in my pajamas all day more often than I'd like to admit. I was so happy to see the smiling faces of the kiddos this week. I missed them over the break, and was especially sad that I didn't get to say goodbye to them because of the unexpected flood! We picked up where we left off before break and are moving on as we get back into the swing of early mornings and long school days. Here's what's coming up this week.

Important Dates

• Thursday - Martin Luther King/virtues assembly at 9:20
• Monday 1/20 - No School - Martin Luther King Day

Curriculum Coming Up

Reading

• Sequence of Events
• Plural Nouns
• Vowel Diphthongs oi, oy
• Vowel Sound in joy

Writing

• Finishing up New Year's Resolutions
• Beginning research for Country Reports

Math

• Write First Step Questions for Two Step Problems
• Make Sense of Two Step Word Problems
• Multiple with Multiples of 10

Social Studies (we have a special Social Studies activity focusing on Immigration on January 30th, so we had to do a little bit more SS before moving back to science)

• Immigration

Science (beginning our Physical Science unit, Motion and Matter)

• Two Forces
• Magnetic Force Investigation

In addition to all the curriculum above, we're also working on writing in cursive as much as possible. While we still have a handful of letters left, we've learned enough that there are many, many words we are capable of writing. Please encourage cursive writing at home, too! 

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend. Cheer loud for the Seahawks this weekend, so they'll hear us all the way in Green Bay!

Cheers!