Native American Experience Photos

The Wednesday before mid-winter break, the 3^rd grade students here at Roosevelt were able to learn all about Native American culture. An in school field trip was set up for them to get a hands on experience with many tools and items that Native American’s used in their everyday lives. The students were able to touch many interesting items and learned what they were and how they were used.

These are some photos of our class family during that experience!

Enjoy!

Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week we will be starting our new Reader’s Workshop unit: book series and clubs. Our reader’s will be paired up with a partner and they will each read two books from the same series to compare and contrast the two stories. This week we will preview and plan to read series books. We will also notice patterns in their characters actions and behaviors as they read.

WRITING NEWS:

This week we continued our writer’s workshop personal essay writing. We will learn how to organize our ideas using idea/detail charts and parallel structure. We will create introductions for their personal essays and support their point of view with evidence in the form of focused short stories.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling this week is letter blends (-or, -ur, -ear, and -ir). Every child gets a hard copy of their spelling words each Monday to take home to study. Please double check to make sure that they have it in their take home folder.

word

fur

early

circus

turn

skirt

earth

work

curl

learn

hurt

dirt

earn

shirt

heard

Our spelling test will be on Friday.

HOMEWORK: Your child should be studying their spelling words every night as well as reading 20 minutes and recording it on their February reading log. Those reading logs will be due March 2^nd.

Mid Winter Break

There will be no school from February 16th-20th for mid winter break.  School resumes on Monday February 23rd.    

Valentine's Day Celebration

We will be having a Valentine’s Day celebration this Friday the 13^th. If your student is planning on bringing valentines for the class please make sure that he/she brings one for each student. We have 26 students in our classroom and a class list will follow.

Favour

Cesar

Kaden

Quran

Joshua

Mariah

Layan

Tristan

Brandon

JT

Djuan

Blair

Keelan

Gabrielle

Micah

Cerianna

Elijah

Zavier

Parker

Tayshawn

Ashira

Jordan

Makayla

Maria

Tr'evontee

Egypt

Any donations of treats are greatly appreciated.  We can also use paper lunch bags or zip lock style bags to take extra food items home.

Thanks,

Michael Peri

Valentine's Day Celebration

We will be having a Valentine’s Day celebration this Friday the 13^th. If your student is planning on bringing valentines for the class please make sure that he/she brings one for each student. We have 26 students in our classroom and a class list will follow.

Deacon

Kaelynn

Keith

Bryanna

Joseph

Mekhi

Jeilon

Issac

Jordan

Taylor

Joshua

Isaiah

Victoria

Jewell

Trevaughn

Britney

Raina

Davion

Nicolas

Jaylin

Harmoni

Yahshua

Taylor

Asia

Tabytha

Michael

If you would like to donate any treats to our classroom, please make sure and post what you would like to bring so we don’t have a lot of duplicate items. Things like candy, cupcakes, juice boxes, chips, and plastic Ziploc bags would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

-Ian Grzesik

Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week we will be working on building our reading stamina by reading long and strong from our book boxes. We will practice any strategy we have learned so far this year.

WRITING NEWS:

This week we continued our writer’s workshop personal essay writing. We will learn how to support big ideas from stories with evidence from their own lives by reading a couple of short stories and thinking about how they relate to our own lives. We will also learn how to create opinion statements for our own personal essays by using a graphic organizer to help us capture our thoughts on opinions.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling this week is letter blends (-or, -ar, -ore, and –oar). Every child gets a hard copy of their spelling words each Monday to take home to study. Please double check to make sure that they have it in their take home folder.

story

wore

north

board

form

corner

warm

score

morning

forget

before

storm

tore

order

war

Our spelling test will be on Friday.

HOMEWORK: Your child should be studying their spelling words every night as well as reading 20 minutes and recording it on their February reading log. Those reading logs will be due March 2^nd.