Dear Parents,

We had another productive week in 3C!  The students had so much fun working on their mothers' day poems/crafts!  I hope you enjoy them.  I had the best time reading what they had to say about their moms, they were very sweet.  Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.  My parents are in town so I am excited ti celebrate mothers' day with my mom, which I haven't gotten to do in a few years.  Below is an update on what we will be covering next week!  

Also, this is a bit early, but I wanted to give you a heads up.  As many of you know i am getting married in May 28th.  Mr. Gillingham has graciously allowed me to take off on the 26th and 27th, but I will be coming by on the 27th to say goodbye to the students and any parents who are there for our classroom celebration.  I will probably tell the students on the last week of school, but I wanted to give you a heads up.  Any comments or questions, please reach out to me!

Best,

Ms. Caro  

General Announcements

• We are in need of just a few more boxes of tissues to get us through the rest of the year, the allergy count has just been so high this spring!
• Wednesday afternoon we will reenact the Punic Wars on the football field with water balloons! There will be solid ground rules to ensure the safety of all students and we will be throwing from a distance. They may come home a bit damp, but we will hopefully prevent them from getting completely soaked!

Language Arts:

We will continue reinforcing our diagramming and classification skills in Grammar. We will continue reading about Ancient Greece in our Story of the World writing exercises. We have almost come to the end of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, many of your scholars are already looking 

forward to reading the next book in the series next year.

History:

This week we will be discussing the Massachusetts Bay Colony and what life was like in puritan communities. We will also be learning the history Rhode Island and begin learning about the middle colonies. We are giving out a study guide on Monday, which can be filled out as we go this week. The study guide is to be completed and turned in on May 17th. We will be having the final history test of the year on Friday, May 20th!

Science: 

This upcoming week will be an exciting one in science as students are introduced to the wonders of the sun as they consider nuclear fusion and the tremendous heat it creates. However, we will, I hope, be humbled by seeing how small our sun is, and us with it, when compared to some of the larger stars in the universe. At times, we struggle with thinking to highly of ourselves, but when we consider the great vastness of the heavens it should lead our souls to reflect on our finite nature. Other topics discussed during the week will include constellations and how to orienteer by the stars. We will finish the week by discussing what happens to some of the larger stars in the universe when their lives end, namely blackholes, and we will try to rectify some of the misconceptions that surround them.

Math: 

In math this week we will be doing a large cumulative review to prepare students for our final Singapore math test.  This test will be given on Friday, May 13th.  The test will not be part of the students grade, but is an opportunity for us to learn how much the students have grown (they took the pre-test at the beginning of the year) and for the 3rd grade team to figure out how to improve our practices for the next school year.