Dear 3S Families,
Thank you so much for cooking and coming to our 3S Russian Feast! The food
was delicious, the dancing and singing fabulous and the PowerPoint
presentations impressive! My class was really excited to share all of their
knowledge with you; I hope you learned something new about Russia!
Math
MCAS for math will be on Monday May 11th and Tuesday May 12th . Good examples
of the questions that will be asked on the MCAS have been included in the
math homework sent home over the past several weeks. Looking over the
homework with your child and talking about the different type of problems
will help them perform more successfully on the assessment.
Writing
I am so excited to have Karen Goulet, our Literacy Specialist, helping with
our Writing Workshop. We are currently working on telling the “internal”
story in our personal narratives. This means we are discovering what the
person is thinking or feeling on the inside and how we can express it in our
writing. We have been looking at numerous writing samples and are working on
adding our own inner stories to our writing.
Our final writing unit is poetry. This is one of my favorite writing units
and I know there will be some wonderful budding poets in this classroom!
Reading Workshop
We have been working on writing summaries in our Reader's Notebooks. We have
reviewed how writing a summary is different from retelling a story. For
example, in a summary not every detail from the story is included; you want
to find the main ideas/events in the story while including the important
characters and setting. When retelling a story, it is telling exactly what
happened in the story. Writing summaries can be challenging, but 3S has been
working hard and is up to the challenge.
The biography reports were amazing! I was so impressed with the research and
the costumes this class designed for their biographies. Our “visitors”
ranged from Jane Goodall to Ben Franklin. If you happen to be in the
building, don't miss the bulletin board outside the 3S classroom to see the
impressive costumes and to learn a few facts from their biography reports.
Social Studies
After spending so much time in Russia, we have now come back to the United
States to begin our study on Boston and Immigration. In this unit we learn
about the treasures and cultures in Boston's different neighborhoods, and the
important events that have made Boston the wonderful city it is today. We
discover how Boston looked long ago and how it looks today. Students are
usually shocked at how much Boston has changed!
During the Immigration section of this unit, the class was asked to interview
a member of their family to find out how and when their family or ancestors
arrived in the United States. I hope these interviews fostered enriching
conversations between you and your child at home.
There are many events during the end of the school year so please be sure to
check the calendar. Thank you for all of your continued support at home and
in the classroom!
Fondly,
Miss Steele
