May 26 - May 29
EOG retakes are as follows:
Wednesday, May 26 - Reading
Thursday, May 27 - Math Calculator Active
Friday, Math 28 - Math Calculator Inactive
Note that all books from Parsley's library are due back by the end of this
week. Students
will not be allowed to check out any more books after Friday. Today's
reading and math homework was written on the board. Students are responsible
for writing down their own homework.
Tuesday Homework:
Reading - Read 30 minutes SOLID, write the starting and ending page numbers
on your
calendar under "Tuesday".
Math - none (good time to practice your math facts...)
Wednesday Homework for Maniac Magee Group - Finish reading and packet section
that was not finished during class. (page 1-19)
Wednesday Homework for Stone Fox Group - AR read for 30 minutes, write down
your start and end pages on your calendar.
Thursday Homework for Maniac Magee Group - Finish reading and packet section
that was not finished during class. (page 20-37)
Thursday Homework for Stone Fox Group - Finish reading and packet section
that was not finished during class. (chapter 1)
Friday Homework for Maniac Magee Group - Finish reading and packet section
that was not finished during class. (page 38-58)
Friday Homework for Stone Fox Group - Finish reading and packet section that
was not finished during class. (chapter 2)
Class Pictures - This week's assignment calendar has a space for you to
initial "yes, I pre-ordered and paid for a class picture" OR "no, I did not
pre-order and pay for a class picture". Please check the appropriate box.
Thank you for volunteering to present at the Grade Three Career Days. We have
a very
full schedule.
Fun Day is coming in June. It truly is a fun day and a highlight for the
kids! Mrs.
Deaton is asking for volunteers for this event. If you can help, please
contact Mrs.
Deaton at ldeaton@nhcs.net or Jennifer Bradstreet at
bradstreet.jennifer@gmail.com.
The times are 8:45-11 for 3rd-5th and 12:00-2:15 for Kindergarten-2nd grade
on Friday
June 5th and if it rains it will be on Monday June 8th. Volunteers are also
needed for
set up and take down. Thank you so much for your help.
Our end of the year celebration will be on the last day of school, June 10th,
from 11:00-12:00.
Our class is set to be part of Summerfest 2009. A letter about this was sent
home
in your child's folder last week. The letter will contain a classroom
identification number for students in our class. Please register your child
by going to www.letterpals.org,
click on the Parents Sign Up tab, and enter the requested information along
with the
classroom identification number sent home this week. You can register at home
between
now and June 22.
If your male student would like to participate in Benny Moss Basketball camp
this summer, please stop by the office to pick up a flyer.
Check the calendar page for more important dates.
Reading:
We will begin a novel study. Students will be reading either Stone Fox or
Maniac Magee.
In the interest of saving paper and ink, we will no longer print a TOPS
report for
every AR quiz taken. Rather, a weekly report of AR tests, book levels, and
scores
will be sent home. At a glance, you will see all your child's AR information
for the
week. Students have less than two weeks to reach their goals.
Math:
We will work on Accelerated Math and Super Stars.
Even though the weather is warmer and the end of the year feels closer,
PLEASE don't
neglect your memorization of math facts. Students who had their math facts
memorized
clearly had an easier time with the EOGs and with the complex questions that
were
asked on the test. Catching up and keeping up with those skills will be
critical as
your child prepares for 4th grade!
Science:
Our worms have been observed placed into our compost bags. It will be
interesting to
see how the organic matter in these bags is changed into rich soil. This week
we will
learn about the composition of soil and learn more about the characteristics
of each
soil type (sand, clay and humus). If there are any parents who have an
expertise in
these areas, please let me know :)
May 18 - May 22
Today's reading and math homework was written on the board. Students are
responsible
for copying their own homework assignments this week.
Thursday Homework:
Read 30 minutes SOLID, write the starting and ending page numbers on your
calendar under "Thursday"
Math - PW 71
Wednesday Homework:
Reading - Read 30 minutes SOLID, write the starting and ending page numbers
on your
calendar under "Wednesday"
Math - PW 112
Tuesday Homework:
Reading - Read 30 minutes SOLID, write the starting and ending page numbers
on your
calendar under "Tuesday"
Math - PW 111
Monday Homework:
Reading - On a separate sheet of paper, write down three things that are
happening in
the world today. (What is in the news?) Also, write down the cost of three
different
things (ideas - milk, gas, bread, postage...)
Math - PW 61
Thank you for going the extra mile in helping prepare your child for the End-
of-Grade
tests. We had perfect attendance and no tardies. This made the tests less
stressful
for the children - thank you! Note that scores for these tests will be sent
home with
report cards at the end of the year.
Be sure to check out the Patriot Kids Blog. This is where you will find
reports and
photos of Liberty, Justice, and Freedom's world travels. The latest post is
from our
very own Alex. It is a very interesting and well written article :) Thanks
Alex!
Thank you for volunteering to present at the Grade Three Career Days. We have
a very
full schedule. An information letter will be sent to those parents who
volunteered.
Fun Day is coming in June. It truly is a fun day and a highlight for the
kids! Mrs.
Deaton is asking for volunteers for this event. If you can help, please
contact Mrs.
Deaton at ldeaton@nhcs.net or Jennifer Bradstreet at
bradstreet.jennifer@gmail.com.
The times are 8:45-11 for 3rd-5th and 12:00-2:15 for Kindergarten-2nd grade
on Friday
June 5th and if it rains it will be on Monday June 8th. Volunteers are also
needed for
set up and take down. Thank you so much for your help.
Our class is set to be part of Summerfest 2009. A letter about this will be
sent home
in your child's folder. The letter will contain a classroom identification
number for
students in our class. Please register your child by going to
www.letterpals.org,
click on the Parents Sign Up tab, and enter the requested information along
with the
classroom identification number sent home this week. You can register at home
between
now and June 22.
Check the calendar page for more important dates.
Reading:
In the interest of saving paper and ink, we will no longer print a TOPS
report for
every AR quiz taken. Rather, a weekly report of AR tests, book levels, and
scores
will be sent home. At a glance, you will see all your child's AR information
for the
week. Students should be at least half way to their goals.
Math:
We will continue our study of three dimensional figures and will explore
tessellations.
Even though the weather is warmer and the end of the year feels closer,
PLEASE don't
neglect your memorization of math facts. Students who had their math facts
memorized
clearly had an easier time with the EOGs and with the complex questions that
were
asked on the test. Catching up and keeping up with those skills will be
critical as
your child prepares for 4th grade!
Social Studies:
We continue with our study of economics. We will look at the concept of trade
this
week.
Science:
Our worms have been observed placed into our compost bags. It will be
interesting to
see how the organic matter in these bags is changed into rich soil. This week
we will
learn about the composition of soil and learn more about the characteristics
of each
soil type (sand, clay and humus). If there are any parents who have an
expertise in
these areas, please let me know :)
May 11 - May 15
Thank you for your kind words, supplies, cards, flowers... during Teacher
Appreciation
Week. We do feel very appreciated - you are all so thoughtful :)
Be sure to check out the Patriot Kids Blog. This is where you will find
reports and
photos of Liberty, Justice, and Freedom's world travels. The latest post is
from our
very own Alex! It is a very interesting and well written article :) Thanks
Alex!
End-of Grade testing is scheduled for this week, May 12-14. Be sure to have
a good
breakfast and good night's rest each day. The schedule is as follows:
Tuesday -
reading, Wednesday - calculator inactive math, Thursday - calculator active
math
Note the new page on this website! It is called End-of-Grade Frequently
Asked
Questions (FAQ). It includes information on preparing for the tests, as well
as
information on the tests themselves. We have repeatly reminded students to
review
their "purple math packets". If yours becomes misplaced, just print a new
copy. The
entire packet is under "End-of-Grade Exams FAQ".
Interim reports will be sent home on Thursday, May 14.
If you are interested in presenting at Career Day, please note that the
response forms
must be returned NO LATER THAN THIS FRIDAY, MAY 15. Letters regarding Career
Day and
volunteering were sent home last week. Thank you to those who have already
volunteered.
Our PTA is sponsoring Free Ice Cream Day this Thursday. Thanks!!
Our red worms will be arriving soon. Students are invited to bring in a
smaller
ziplock bag containing compostable vegetation (peelings, cores, bits of fruit
and
vegetables, leaves, grass clippings...). We hope to assemble our compost
bags this
week.
Fun Day is coming in June. It truly is a fun day and a highlight for the
kids! Mrs.
Deaton is asking for volunteers for this event. If you can help, please
contact Mrs.
Deaton at ldeaton@nhcs.net or Jennifer Bradstreet at
bradstreet.jennifer@gmail.com.
The times are 8:45-11 for 3rd-5th and 12:00-2:15 for Kindergarten-2nd grade
on Friday
June 5th and if it rains it will be on Monday June 8th. Volunteers are also
needed for
set up and take down. Thank you so much for your help!!
Check the calendar page for more important dates.
In the interest of saving paper and ink, we will no longer print a TOPS
report for
every AR quiz taken. Rather, a weekly report of AR tests, book levels, and
scores
will be sent home. At a glance, you will see all your child's AR information
for the
week. Students conferenced with me and set new AR goals for this 9 weeks.
May 4 - May 8
Thank you to all parents and grandparents who chaperoned our field trip to
Airlie
Gardens!
Be sure to check our the Patriot Kids Blog. This is where you will find
reports and
photos of Liberty, Justice, and Freedom's world travels. The latest post is
from our
very own Alex! It is very interesting and well written :) Thanks Alex!
End-of Grade testing is scheduled for next week, May 12-14. Be sure to have
a good
breakfast and good night's rest each day.
Note the new page on this website! It is called End-of-Grade Frequently
Asked
Questions (FAQ). It includes information on preparing for the tests, as well
as
information on the tests themselves. We have repeatly reminded students to
review
their "purple math packets". If yours becomes misplaced, just print a new
copy. The
entire packet is under "End-of-Grade Exams FAQ".
If you are interested in presenting at Career Day, please note that the
response forms
must be returned no later than Friday May 15.
Check the calendar page for more important dates.
In math and reading this week we will review skills and concepts for the
EOG.
In the interest of saving paper and ink, we will no longer print a TOPS
report for
every AR quiz taken. Rather, a weekly report of AR tests, book levels, and
scores
will be sent home. At a glance, you will see all your child's AR information
for the
week. Students conferenced with me and set new AR goals for this 9 weeks.
April 27-May 1
*** Please note - We discovered that our Math Review Packet came back to us
(from the
print shop) with a page missing! We copied that page and placed it in each
child's
Parsley folder. Look for a page that has all kinds of measurement
information on it.
The entire packet is also on this webpage under "End-of-Grade Exams FAQ".
The Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast is scheduled for Tuesday, April 28 at
8:00 am in
the Multipurpose Room. Parsley's volunteers make a significant difference at
our
school. We would like to thank our volunteers for sharing your time and
talents with
the children.
Note the new page on this website! It is called End-of-Grade Frequently
Asked
Questions. Also note the change in EOG testing dates. Please do not
schedule trips
or time away from school before or during these days.
Please read and review the purple letter and review packet sent home on 4/27.
Our field trip to Airlie Gardens is scheduled for Friday, May 1. Be sure to
send a
bag lunch with your child (if you did not request a school lunch). We will
take
coolers, home lunches should be sent in disposal bags.
Students should wear closed-toe shoes and apply sunscreen before coming to
school on
Friday. We will be outdoors and walking on trails throughout the trip.
Check the calendar page for more important dates.
In reading this week we will review skills and concepts for the Reading EOG.
In the interest of saving paper and ink, we will no longer print a TOPS
report for
every AR quiz taken. Rather, a weekly report of AR tests, book levels, and
scores
will be sent home. At a glance, you will see all your child's AR information
for the
week. Students conferenced with me and set new AR goals for this 9 weeks.
In math we will continue our study of geometry and using appropriate
vocabulary to compare, describe, and classify 2 and 3-dimensional figures.
Please see
the math family newsletter. This letter included more valuable vocabulary for
our
study of geometry. Visit the Harcourt website under my Math Links for
additional
vocabulary and concept help. Password is Burton.
We will also be reviewing skills and concepts for the Math End-of-Grade test.
April 20-24
The Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast is scheduled for Tuesday, April 28 at
8:00 am in
the Multipurpose Room. Parsley's volunteers make a significant difference at
our
school. We would like to thank our volunteers for sharing your time and
talents with
the children!
Friday, April 24 is School Spirit Day. Wear your Parsley t-shirt or red,
white and
blue. If you would like to purchase a Parsley t-shirt for $10, contact Terri
Durick
ptldurick@aol.com.
Note the change in EOG testing dates. Please do not schedule trips or time
away from
school before or during these days.
Check the calendar page for more important dates.
In reading this week we will finish our study of biographies. We will spend
the next few weeks reviewing skills that we have learned this year.
In the interest of saving paper and ink, we will no longer print a TOPS
report for
every AR quiz taken. Rather, a weekly report of AR tests, book levels, and
scores
will be sent home. At a glance, you will see all your child's AR information
for the
week. Students conferenced with me and set new AR goals for this 9 weeks.
In math we will continue our study of geometry and using appropriate
vocabulary to compare, describe, and classify 2 and 3-dimensional figures.
Please see
the math family newsletter sent home last week. This letter included valuable
vocabulary for our study of geometry. Visit the Harcourt website under my
Math Links
for additional vocabulary and concept help. Password is Burton. We will
also be
reviewing concepts for the Math End-of-Grade test.
Social Studies: We will continue our study of economics in communities.
April 16 - April 20
Report cards will be sent home on Monday, April 13. An update on your child's
timed
math facts, Accelerated Math and Accelerated Reading progress will be sent
home with
the report card. Please sign the xerox copy of your child's report card and
return it
to school.
Check the calendar page for more important dates.
Reading:
We will focus on the comprehension skills of understanding biographies and
questioning. Our skill study will include researching, drawing conclusions,
checking
facts, choosing quotations, and the author's craft of foreshadowing. Our
word study
will include suffixes (-y, -ly, -er, -less, and -ness) and changing a final y
to i.
Writing: We will write a biography. We will also work on varying sentence
structure
and using verbs correctly.
In the interest of saving paper and ink, we will no longer print a TOPS
report for
every AR quiz taken. Rather, a weekly report of AR tests, book levels, and
scores
will be sent home. At a glance, you will see all your child's AR information
for the
week. New goals will be sent home the week of 4/13.
Math: We will begin our study of geometry. Please read and refer to the
family
newsletter sent home in your child's folder on 4/13. This letter includes
valuable
vocabulary for our study of geometry.
Visit the Harcourt website under my Math Links for additional vocabulary and
concept
help.
(Password is Burton)
Social Studies: We will begin our study of economics in communities.
March 30 - April 2
Our grade 3 writing assessment is scheduled for Tuesday, March 31. This will
be a
timed assessment with an on demand prompt. Please help your student
brainstorm writing
ideas for their Monday night homework.
Our Third Nine Weeks Math Assessment is scheduled for Wednesday, April 1.
This
assessment will cover all concepts learned during the third nine weeks:
fractions,
time, length, capacity, and algebraic representations.
Spring pictures are also scheduled for Wednesday, April 1. Pictures will not
be taken
until after the math assessment. Note that class pictures had to be ordered
in
advance. Individual picture packets will be sent home at a later date. A
decision to
purchase individual pictures can be made after the packets have been sent
home.
April 2 is a half day for students. We will have a full morning of
instruction on
that day. Lunch will be at 11:09, dismissal is at noon. Spring break for
students is
April 3-12. School resumes on April 13.
Check the calendar page for more important dates.
Reading:
We will review concepts from our "Animal Habitats" theme.
In the interest of saving paper and ink, we will no longer print a TOPS
report for
every AR quiz taken. Rather, a weekly report of AR tests, book levels, and
scores
will be sent home. At a glance, you will see all your child's AR information
for the
week. (An AR report will be sent home on 3/30.)
There is no spelling homework this week.
Math: We will review concepts from the previous nine week period. Students
will need
to memorize these benchmarks: knuckle to knuckle or paperclip = inch, long
side
of paper = foot, baseball bat = yard, how far you can walk in 20 min.= mile,
width of
pinkie = centimeter, width of palm of hand = decimeter, baseball bat = meter,
how far
you can walk in 10 min = kilometer. Use a t-table strategy for converting
within
customary or within metric. Students will need to memorize the number of
inches in a
foot, feet in a yard, meters in a kilometer, and centimeters in a meter. Be
sure you
can draw "the gallon kingdom" from memory. Know that there are 1000
milliliters in
a liter. Please talk about how much everyday items hold, how much they
weigh, and how
long or far something is. It is important that students are able to visual
and
estimate measurement.
Visit the Harcourt website under my Math Links for additional vocabulary and
concept
help.
(Password is Burton)
Would any student in your home like homework help? Get live homework help
online from
real tutors through the New Hanover County Public Library. Free Tutoring is
available
for math, science, social studies, and English grades K-12, College Intro and
Adult
Learners everyday from 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm! Go to
www.nhcgov.com/AgnAndDpt/LIBR/Pages/DeptInfo.aspx. You will then be asked to
type in
your Library Card Number found on the back of your or your childs NHC Public
Library
card.
Thank you for checking your child's green calendar each day, and for helping
to see
that they are reading and doing homework. Each day, your children are coming
to
school rested and ready to learn - thank you!
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March 23-27
Thank you for participating in Parsley's Book Fair. Thank you to all who
purchased books
for our use in the classroom. A big thank you to our parent volunteers who
worked at the fair
and behind the scenes to make this event happen!
Our class is scheduled to do the mile run for P.E. class on Monday, March 23.
Be sure to
wear tennis shoes. Students will have the option to walk or run.
Our standarized grade 3 writing assessment is scheduled for March 31. This
will be an on demand
prompt. We will continue conferencing with students about their writing and
will do one personal
narrative in class between now and the assessment.
Don't miss the Renaissance Fair from 6:30-8:00pm on Tuesday, Marh 24. There
will be many fun
and educational areas to explore!
Spring pictures are scheduled for Wednesday, April 1. Note that class
pictures must be ordered
in advance. Individual picture packets will be sent home at a later date. A
decision to
purchase individual pictures can be made after the packets have been sent
home.
April 2 is a half day for students. We will continue with a regular schedule
of instruction
that day.
Reading:
This week, we will focus on monitoring/clarifying as a strategy, making
judgments as a skill,
reading for visual literacy (foreground) and writers craft (similes), reading
for genre
(poetry), and adjusting reading rate. Our word study will include prefixes un-
, re-, suffixes
ful, -ly, -er, digraphs ch, sh, th, tch, wh, wr, base words and inflected
forms.
In the interest of saving paper and ink, we will no longer print a TOPS
report for every
AR quiz taken. Rather, a weekly report of AR tests, book levels, and scores
will be sent home.
At a glance, you will see all your child's AR information for the week.
Writing: We will write a problem-solution essay and work on irregular verbs.
Math: We'll continue measuring this week. We will assess customary length
and metric length on
Monday. (We have been using these benchmarks: knuckle to knuckle or paperclip
= inch, long side
of paper = foot, baseball bat = yard, how far you can walk in 20 min.= mile,
width of pinkie =
centimeter, width of palm of hand = decimeter, baseball bat = meter, how far
you can walk in 10
min = kilometer. We used a t-table strategy for converting within customary
or within
metric. Students will need to memorize the number of inches in a foot, feet
in a yard, meters in
a kilometer, and centimeters in a meter.)
We will learn about customary and metric capacity this week. Students will
learn "the gallon
kingdom" to help them with customaty capacity. They will memorize 1000
milliliters in a liter.
Please talk about how much everyday items hold, how much they weigh, and how
long or far
something is. It is important that students are able to visual and estimate
measurement.
Our Third Nine Weeks math Assessment is scheduled for Wednesday, April 1.
This assessment will
include fractions and all forms of measurement.
Visit the Harcourt website under my Math Links for additional vocabulary and
concept help.
(Password is Burton)
Science: Our unit is "Objects in the Sky: Earth, Moon, and Stars". Students
will hand in their
moon calendar this week. Small groups will be presenting various movements
in the sky. Note
that these presentations do not require additional supplies from home or
additional homework
effort. We will have opportunity to visit the traveling "Star Lab" on
Tuesday morning.
March 16 -20
TODAY'S MATH HOMEWORK (THURSDAY, MARCH 19) WAS NOT PUT IN FOLDERS. THERE IS
NO MATH HOMEWORK
TONIGHT. PLEASE USE THIS EXTRA TIME TO WORK ON YOUR PERSONAL NARRATIVE.
(Prompt: Tell about a
time when you did something special with an adult.)
Parsley's Book Fair will be held March 16 - 20. Book Fair Family Night will
be on
Monday, March 16th. The hours are 7:30am - 3:00pm Mon.-Thurs., 7:30am -
2:30pm on Friday. Check
out our classroom wish list while you are there. A big thank you to our
parent volunteers who
work at the fair and behind the scenes to make this event happen!
**** Our class is scheduled to do the mile run for P.E. class on Monday,
March 23. Be sure to
wear tennis shoes!
Reading: Our new reading theme is "Animal Habitats". During the next several
weeks, we will
read a variety of fiction and non-fiction selections about animal habitats.
This week, we will conclude our work on summarizing, comparing and
contrasting, sequence of
events, and skim/scan. In addition to our selection, we will learn about
reading a magazine
article. Our word study will include word endings -ed and -ing, changing y
to i and doubling
consonant spelling rules, multiple meaning words, and synonyms. We will
assess on Thursday.
On Friday, and into next week, we will begin a focus on monitoring/clarifying
as a strategy,
making judgments as a skill, reading for visual literacy (foreground) and
writer’s craft
(similes), reading for genre (poetry), and adjusting reading rate. Our word
study will include
prefixes un-, re-, suffixes –ful, -ly, -er, digraphs ch, sh, th, tch, wh, wr,
base words and
inflected forms.
**** In the interest of saving paper and ink, we will no longer print a TOPS
report for every
AR quiz taken. Rather, a weekly report of AR tests, book levels, and scores
will be sent home.
At a glance, you will see all your child's AR information for the week.
Writing: We will learn about helping verbs and will write a poem. Next week
we will write a
problem-solution essay and work on irregular verbs.
Also, our standarized grade 3 writing test is scheduled for March 31. This
will be an on demand
prompt. We will do one personal narrative in class between now and then, and
I will assign one
as homework.
Math: We'll begin measuring this week: customary length on Monday and
Tuesday, metric lengththe
rest of the week. We'll use these benchmarks: knuckle to knuckle or
paperclip = inch, long side
of paper = foot, baseball bat = yard, how far you can walk in 20 min.= mile,
width of pinkie =
centimeter, width of palm of hand = decimeter, baseball bat = meter, how far
you can walk in 10
min = kilometer. We will use a t-table strategy for converting within
customary or within
metric.
Our chapter 25/fractions assessment is scheduled for March 9th. CHECK OUT
THIS FRACTIONS
TUTORIAL:
http://www.coolmath4kids.com/fractions/index.html It walks you through the
very basic concepts
of fractions, mixed numbers and improper fractions!
March 9-13
3/11 - JUST FOUND THIS TUTORIAL TONIGHT - CHECK OUT THIS LINK:
http://www.coolmath4kids.com/fractions/index.html It walks you through the
very basic concepts
of fractions, mixed numbers and improper fractions!
Be sure to join your classmates for the Monkey Joes Fundraiser on Thursday,
March 12, 3:00 -
7:00. Parsley's Book Fair will be held March 16 - 20. Book Fair Family
Night will be on
Monday, March 16th.
Students enjoyed our Read Across America observance. We explored a number of
Dr. Seuss' books,
practiced our reading fluency, created words from Seuss word families,
graphed shoe styles,
compared Seuss books... Our guest reader last Monday was Mayor Saffo
himself! The gallery page
of this website has a couple of pictures from the celebration.
Reading: Our new reading theme is "Animal Habitats". During the next several
weeks, we will
read a variety of fiction and non-fiction selections about animal habitats.
Our reading strategy from now until March 11 will be evaluation. Our reading
skills will focus
on fact and opinion, making generalizations, and topic, main idea, supporting
details. Word
study will include vowel +/r/ sound, forms of the verb "be", syllabication,
and homographs.
After March 11, we will work on summarizing, comparing and contrasting,
sequence of events, and
skim/scan. In addition to our selection, we will learn about reading a
magazine article. Our
word study will include word endings -ed and -ing, changing y to i and
doubling consonant
spelling rules, multiple meaning words, and synonyms.
Small groups continue to work with concepts from the mid-year reading
assessment: connections,
cognition, integration, and evaluation.
Writing: We will learn about helping verbs and will write a poem.
Math: Our chapter 25 assessment is scheduled for March 9th. During the rest
of the week, we
will learn how to add and subtract fractions. We will also learn how to
reduce a fraction to
its simplest form. Please watch for a Fractions Parent Letter in the Parsley
folder on Monday.
Automatic recall of multiplication facts will be a great help when students
are comparing
fractions and reducing fractions! Please help your child practice his/her
multiplication facts.
Visit the Harcourt website under my Math Links for additional vocabulary and
concept help.
(Password is Burton)
Science: Our unit is "Objects in the Sky: Earth, Moon, and Stars". Please
note the moon
calendar sent home in your child's Parsley folder. Students are asked to
spend 5 minutes each
evening observing the moon and recording its appearance on their moon
calendars. Note not only
the shape of the moon, but also its location in the sky. Students will
continue their moon
observance for the next month (including weekend evenings). Regular
recording on the calendar
will help your child see a pattern in moon changes.
March 2-11
Thank you for attending Student-led Conferences last week. The students were
very proud to
share their accomplishments! If you have not already done so, please sign and
return a copy of
your child's interim report. This Friday, March 6, has been designated as
our make-up snow day.
Students will have a half day of school and will be dismissed at noon.
Parsley will celebrate Read Across America on March 2. Since March 2 is Dr.
Seuss' birthday, he
will be our featured author for the day. I invite students to bring in any
Dr. Seuss books that
you might have at home. On March 5, we will have a school wide vote for our
favorite Dr. Seuss
book. On Friday, March 6th, students are invited to dress as their favorite
Dr. Seuss
character. (Remember the dress code though - no hats.)
Reading: Our new reading theme is "Animal Habitats". During the next several
weeks, we will
read a variety of fiction and non-fiction selections about animal habitats.
Our reading strategy from now until March 11 will be evaluation. Our reading
skills will focus
on fact and opinion, making generalizations, and topic, main idea, supporting
details. Word
study will include vowel +/r/ sound, forms of the verb "be", syllabication,
and homographs.
Small groups continue to work with concepts from the mid-year reading
assessment: connections,
cognition, integration, and evaluation.
Writing: We will learn about taking notes and will finish a recent personal
narrative.
Math: We will finish with ordering fractions and will learn about mixed
numbers this week. Our
chapter 25 assessment is scheduled for March 9th. Students are discovering
that automatic
recall of their multiplication facts is a great help when they are comparing
fractions! Please
help your child practice his/her multiplication facts.
Visit the Harcourt website under my Math Links for additional vocabulary and
concept help.
(Password is Burton)
Social Studies: Students will finish presenting their bio-cubes to the class
this week.
Science: Our unit is "Objects in the Sky: Earth, Moon, and Stars". Please
note the moon
calendar sent home in your child's Parsley folder. Students are asked to
spend 5 minutes each
evening observing the moon and recording its appearance on their moon
calendars. Note not only
the shape of the moon, but also its location in the sky. Students will
continue their moon
observance for the next month (including weekend evenings). Regular
recording on the calendar
will help your child see a pattern in moon changes.
February 23-27
Plan to join us in the classroom on Monday, February 23 from 6:00-7:00 pm for
our second Student-
led Conferences. Interim Reports will be sent home on Wednesday, February
25. Friday, March 6,
originally scheduled as a teacher workday, has been designated as our make-up
snow day. Students
will have school and will be dismissed at noon on March 6.
Parsley will celebrate Read Across America on March 2. Since March 2 is Dr.
Seuss' birthday, he
will be our featured author for the day. I invite students to bring in any
Dr. Seuss books that
you might have at home. On March 5, we will have a school wide vote for our
favorite Dr. Seuss
book. On Friday, March 6th, students are invited to dress as their favorite
Dr. Seuss
character. (Remember the dress code though - no hats.)
Reminder regarding absences - we do need a written excuse for documentation
of excused
absences.
Reading: We continue to review many of the areas that we have been working on
these past 4
weeks- monitoring and clarifying while reading, story structure, writer’s
craft (character’s perspective), reading for genre (interviews), and
information and study
skills (using charts, tables, graphs, encyclopedias and thesaurus). Our word
study will review homophones, and prefixes un-, bi-, dis-, mis-, and non-.
Our writing focus will be on past time and future time and writing dialogue.
We will also
conference about and review the writing process for personal narratives.
Math: We will begin our study of fractions. We start by understanding that a
fraction is less
than a whole. In fact, it is parts of a total whole: 1/2 is one part of the
2 total parts.
3/4 is 3 of the 4 total parts....
Visit the Harcourt website under my Math Links for additional vocabulary and
concept help.
(Password is Burton)
Social Studies: Students did a great job researching and creating biocubes on
famous Americans.
They are eager to show you their cubes, as well as their treasure island
projects, at student
led conferences.
Science: Our next unit is "Objects in the Sky". We will be learning about
the earth/moon/sky
system. Our study will include the motions of the earth and moon. Start
talking about and
observing the moon at various times of the night and day!
February 16-20
North Carolina Pretest-Grade 3 Individual Student Reports will be sent home
on Monday, 2/16.
This report contains important information regarding your child. Please take
time to carefully
read both this report and Mrs. Hamilton's letter.
Thank you for your generous donations to the children at Yahweh Center. Our
class enjoyed
assembling the candy bag portion of the donations on Friday morning.
Plan to join us in the classroom on Monday, February 23 from 6:00-7:00 pm for
our second Student-
led Conferences. Interim Reports will be sent home on Wednesday, February
25. Friday, March 6,
originally scheduled as a teacher workday, has been designated as our make-up
snow day. Students
will have school and will be dismissed at noon on March 6.
We've been asked to remind parents and students about the Student Dress Code:
no hats or
sunglasses should be worn in the building or in our classrooms.
Reading: We will review many of the areas that we have been working on these
past 4
weeks- monitoring and clarifying while reading, story structure, writer’s
craft (character’s perspective), reading for genre (interviews), and
information and study
skills (using charts, tables, graphs, encyclopedias and thesaurus). Our word
study will review homophones, and prefixes un-, bi-, dis-, mis-, and non-.
Our writing focus will be on past time and future time and writing dialogue.
We will also
conference about and review the writing process for personal narratives.
Math: We have relearned telling time and have worked on elapsed time and
schedules. This week
we will study elapsed time on a calendar and on a time line. We will assess
all of these areas
on Friday.
Visit the Harcourt website under my Math Links for additional vocabulary and
concept help.
(Password is Burton)
Our order of events for the 3rd nine weeks math will be: elapsed time,
fractions, then
capacity.
Social Studies: We will study the biographies and the character traits of
various historical
figures.
2/9 - 2/13
We had a great fieldtrip to the Cape Fear Museum! We had a fun lesson on
probability, explored
a dozen hands-on math centers and discovered the rest of the museum. Thank
you to Ms. Sharbaugh
and Ms. Jones for chaparoning.
Our class will have opportunity to exchange valentines on Friday, February
13. Exchanging
valentines is optional. However, if you choose to bring valentines, please
include everyone.
A class list was sent home in Parsley folders on February 6th. We will also
make gift bags for
the children at Yahweh Center. Donations for the gift bags can be brought to
school anytime
this week. Donations can be hygiene items, craft items, art supplies,
candy... thank you!
Note the date, February 23. We will have student led conferences that night.
Check the calendar
page for additional upcoming events.
Students have completed a mid-year writing assessment. This assessment
required students to
respond to an on demand writing prompt. A copy of your child's score sheet
and writing will be
sent home this week.
Students have also completed their NHCS mid-year reading and math
assessments. We are awaiting
scores for these assessments.
Reading: We will be reading "The Garden of Abdul Gasazi" this week. It is
another great book
written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg. We'll work with story
structure, monitoring and
clarifying, and noting detail. Word work and spelling will include
homophones. Word work will
also include prefixes (un-, bi-, dis-, mis-, and non-). Skills will include
using a
thesaurus, using charts/tables/graphs, and reading the genre of interviews.
Our writing task will be to write dialogue and appropriately use dialogue
related punctuation.
We will also study past and future tense verbs.
Students are aware of their new AR goals and reading levels.
Math: We have been reviewing telling time. This has taken longer than
anticipated. We will
spend one more day on telling time, then will launch into calculating elapsed
time. Please take
note of your child's ability to tell time using both analog and digital
clocks. Also talk about
elapsed time in your daily activities: Dinner is in 30 minutes, what time
will that be? It
takes 15 minutes to get to practice, we have to be there at 4:00, what time
do we have to
leave? We walked into the store at 5:30 and left at 6:11, how long were we
in the store?
Visit the Harcourt website under my Math Links for additional vocabulary and
concept help.
(Password is Burton)
Our order of events for the 3rd nine weeks math will be: elapsed time,
fractions, then
capacity.
Social Studies: We will study the biographies and the character traits of
various historical
figures.
2/2 - 2/6
Please note the remaining dates concerning yearbook photos:
Monday Feb. 2nd – Club/Group Pictures – multi-purpose room:
Reflections Winners--1st, 2nd, 3rd and honorable mention 1:15 multi-
purpose room
Science Fair participants- 1:50-1:55 multi-purpose room
Walking Club --candids will be taken during morning walks
Our Cape Fear Museum field trip has been rescheduled for Friday, February
6. Please sign and
return your child's permission slip. Remember to bring a sack lunch.
Our class will have opportunity to exchange valentines on Friday, February
13. Exchanging
valentines is optional. However, if you choose to bring valentines, please
include everyone.
A class list will be put in Parsley folders.
Reading: We will continue reading "Raising Dragons" this week. We'll talk
about character
development and drawing conclusions based on the details given to us in the
story. We'll review
predicting and inferring, and cause and effect.
Word work will include -y and -ly suffixes, and spelling that makes
a /J/, /K/, and /KW/
sounds. Skills will include using a pronounciation key in a dictionary,
using an encyclopedia,
and reading the genre of science essays.
Our writing task will be an opinion piece. We will also study present tense
verbs and
subject/verb agreement.
New AR goals will be sent home this week.
Math: We will start studying time. This means that we will review telling
time, then will
launch into calculating elapsed time. Please take note of your child's
ability to tell time
using analog and digital clocks. It will help your child a great deal if
s/he has a solid grasp
of this skill! Talk about elapsed time in your daily activities: Dinner is
in 30 minutes, what
time will that be? It takes 15 minutes to get to practice, we have to be
there at 4:00, what
time do we have to leave? We walked into the store at 5:30 and left at
6:11, how long were we
in the store?
Visit the Harcourt website under my Math Links for additional vocabulary and
concept help.
(Password is Burton)
Our order of events for the whole 3rd nine weeks math will be: elapsed
time, fractions, then
capacity.
Social Studies: We will finish our treasure map project. At the end of this
week and into next
week, we will turn to biographies of historical people.
1/26 - 1/30
Please note the upcoming dates concerning yearbook photos:
Tuesday, January 27th sibling pictures will be taken in the multipurpose
room.
This will take place from 7:30-7:55 as children arrive at school for
the day. The yearbook staff has seen this in several other yearbooks and
thought it was a nice touch.
Friday, January 30 - class pictures. The year book has a beach theme –
so
they are asking that everyone dress in “beach attire” for our class
picture. Bathing
suits are not allowed, however, surfing shorts (the long shorts boys
sometimes wear)
are permissible.
Monday Feb. 2nd – Club – Group Pictures – multi-purpose room:
Reflections Winners--1st, 2nd, 3rd and honorable mention 1:15 multi-
purpose room
Science Fair participants- 1:50-1:55 multi-purpose room
Walking Club --candids will be taken during morning walks
Students in grades 3-5 will take the NHCS Mid Year Reading and Math
Assessments on Wednesday and
Thursday morning of this week. These assessments provide helpful
information to students,
parents and teachers. The scores will used for instructional purposes, but
will not be averaged
into your child's grades.
Friday, January 30, is PTA Movie Night. The doors to the MPR open at 6:00.
The movie begins at
6:30.
Our Cape Fear Museum field trip has been rescheduled for Friday, February
6. Please sign and
return your child's permission slip.
Book orders were sent home last Friday.
Reading: Our reading selection the next two weeks will be "Raising
Dragons". We'll talk about
character development and drawing conclusions based on the details given to
us in the story.
We'll review predicting and inferring, and cause and effect.
Word work will include -y and -ly suffixes, and spelling that makes
a /J/, /K/, and /KW/
sounds. Skills will include using a pronounciation key in a dictionary,
using an encyclopedia,
and reading the genre of science essays.
Our writing task will be an opinion piece. We will also study present tense
verbs and
subject/verb agreement.
Students will take a STAR test this week. New AR goals will be sent home
after all students
have taken the STAR test.
In math we will review second nine week skills:
-measuring mass, weight, and temperature (Students have learned the
following benchmarks to
help them estimate the correct unit of measurement: ounce = slice of bread,
pound = loaf of
bread (16 ounces/pound), gram = paper clip, kilogram = textbook (1000
grams/kilogram). Third
graders are not expected to convert between metric and customary forms of
measurement. However,
they will definitely convert within customary and within metric systems.
Students should use
a "T table" as a tool for this conversion.)
-calculating permutations and combinations (Students should use a "tree map"
whenever a
combination is called for. They should use an "organized list" whenever an
order of items is
called for.)
-using multiplication and division in word problems (Draw pictures and show
your work!)
Toward the end of this week and into next week, we will start on time. This
means that we will
briefly review telling time, then will launch into calculating elapsed
time. Please take note
of your child's ability to tell time using analog and digital clocks. It
will help your child a
great deal if s/he has a solid grasp of this second grade skill.
Visit the Harcourt website under my Math Links for additional vocabulary and
concept help.
(Password is Burton)
Our order of events for the whole 3rd nine weeks math will be: elapsed
time, fractions, then
capacity.
In social studies we will return to our treasure map project. We will
conclude our science unit
with presentations - each student will use note cards to explain a chosen
area of plant growth
to the class.
Would any student in your home like homework help? Get live homework help
online from real
tutors through the New Hanover County Public Library. Free Tutoring is
available for math,
science, social studies, and English grades K-12, College Intro and Adult
Learners everyday from
3:00 pm to 9:00 pm! Go to www.nhcgov.com/AgnAndDpt/LIBR/Pages/DeptInfo.aspx.
You will then be
ask to type in your Library Card Number found on the back of your or your
child’s NHC Public
Library card.
1/20 update
Due to the two hour delay tomorrow, we will not be going on our field trip.
Students may choose
to bring a sack lunch from home or eat school lunch in the cafeteria. We
hope to reschedule the
field trip for a later date. Students may begin arriving at 9:30 tomorrow.
The tardy bell will
ring at 10:00.
1/12 - 1/23, 2009
In honor of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, there is no school on
Monday, 1/19. We will go
on a field trip to Cape Fear Museum's Math Madness exhibit on 1/21.
Parsley's school science
fair will be held on 1/22. Breakfast/lunch with significant males will be on
1/22. Friday, 1/23
is the last day of the grading period and has a noon dismissal. Monday,
1/26 is a teacher
workday. Please check the calendar page for more dates. Also check out our
gallery page - a few
photos have been added.
CONGRATULATIONS to Alex, Ana, Sara, Price, Tomie, and Zach! They read at
least one book from
every section of their readers' wheel. Our readers' wheels challenge
students to read from a
variety of genres and award winning books. We have started over on our
reader's wheels-
We are using the same wheel with the same genres, just starting over. (A
link to the
reader's wheel can be found on Ms. Bailey, Ms. Postemski, Ms Weesner, or Ms.
Tobin's websites.)
On a related note, each student graphs his/her AR and AM progress with me
each week. They are
aware of how close they are to their AR goals and how quickly they are
mastering AM objectives.
Yearbook Information -
Friday, January 30 - class pictures. The year book has a beach theme –
so
they are asking that everyone dress in “beach attire” for our class
picture. Bathing
suits are not allowed, however, surfing shorts (the long shorts boys
sometimes wear)
are permissible.
Tuesday, January 27th sibling pictures will be taken in the multipurpose
room.
This will take place from 7:30-7:55 as children arrive at school for
the day. The yearbook staff has seen this in several other yearbooks and
thought it was a nice touch especially since we have extra pages to
fill.
Monday Feb. 2nd – Club – Group Pictures – multi-purpose room:
Reflections Winners--1st, 2nd, 3rd and honorable mention 1:15 multi-
purpose room
Science Fair participants- 1:50-1:55 multi-purpose room
Walking Club --candids will be taken during morning walks
Reading - This week and next week we will read one of Tomie de Paola's many
books: The
Mysterious Giant of Barletta. We will continue to explore fantasy vs.
realism. We will
study non-fiction skills related to following written directions, reading
magazine articles,
choosing the correct dictionary definition, and using an atlas. Our word
study skills will
include words with "vowel + /r/" sounds, -er and - est endings, comma use
for direct address,
and identifying verbs. In writing, we will work on thank you notes and will
practice writing a
personal narrative.
Math - We will be measuring weight and mass using pounds and ounces, grams
and kilograms.
Students will learn the following benchmarks to help them estimate the
correct unit of
measurement: ounce = slice of bread, pound = loaf of bread (16
ounces/pound), gram = paper clip,
kilogram = textbook (1000 grams/kilogram). Third graders are not expected
to convert between
metric and customary forms of measurement. However, they will definitely
convert within
customary and within metric systems. Students will use a "T table" as a
tool for this
conversion. January 19 - 23 will be spent reviewing second nine weeks math
objectives.
We continue our almost daily 1 minute multiplication facts quiz. Students
begin with
their x2's, and move on to successive numbers as they pass each level.
Keep working on basic addition and subtraction facts. Please go over AM TOPS
reports and
graded math assignments with your child. Watch for items missed and ask your
student to explain
how he/she arrived at any answer.
Visit the Harcourt website under my Math Links for additional vocabulary and
concept help.
(Password is Burton)
Please take note of your child's ability to tell time using analog and
digital clocks. It will
help your child a great deal if s/he has a solid grasp of this second grade
skill.
Science/Social - We continue to collect seeds from every day life. As you
eat fruits or notice
other plant seeds in the coming weeks, please bring the seeds to school.
This week we are
learning about plant parts, seed germination, and pollination. Next week we
will learn about
presidential inaugurations.
1/12/2008
Welcome back!
Thank you to our parents who assisted with the winter party: Mr. and Mrs.
Christianson, Mrs.
Sharbaugh, Mr. Pate, Mr. and Mrs. Peterman, Mrs. King, and Mrs.
Pakulniewicz. Thank you also to
Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Woods for assisting with our Sweden/Lucia Day
instruction. Your presence
made these days more enjoyable for all the students:)
Thank you for bringing gently used (or even new) books for our grade 3
community service
project! Mrs. Tobin delivered the books to enthusiastic recipients at Winter
Park Elementary.
Thank you also for donating books from the book fair wish list. These books
have been added to
our classroom library for student use. Several of these books are Newbery
Award recipients.
Also - our class has been participating in Scholastic Book's "Classrooms
that Care" project.
Under this program, our students simply read 100 books, tell Scholastic that
we have read them,
and Scholastic donates 100 books to needy schools. Our class has read well
over 100 books and
Scholastic has donated 100 new books on our behalf!
There are several important dates to make note of. The first of these is
Parsley Night at the
Wilmington SeaDawgs game on January 10. Please check the calendar page for
more dates. Also
check out our gallery page - a few photos have been added.
CONGRATULATIONS to Alex, Ana, Sara, Price, Tomie, and Zach! They read at
least one book from
every section of their Readers' Wheel. Our Readers' Wheels challenge
students to read from a
variety of genres and award winning books.
Our schedule has been changed. We now study writing before lunch and study
math after
lunch.
Third grade will begin another round of the Readers Wheel after Winter
Break. We will simply
start over using the same reader's wheel with the same genres.
A link to the Reader's Wheel can be found on Ms. Bailey or Ms. Tobin's
websites.
Reading - This week we will read a student favorite: Dogzilla by Dav
Pilkey. We will learn
about fantasy vs. realism, illustrator's craft (collage) and writer's craft
(humor). We will
explore the non-fiction skills of reading diagrams, organizing text, reading
newspapers, and
solving problems. Our word study skills will include words with "ou"
and "aw" (as in loud and
lawn), plurals with nouns ending in f or fe, using context clues to discern
meaning, and
possessive nouns. We will work on journal entries in writing.
Math - We will continue our study of division this week. We will be
applying division to
algebraic equations. We will begin measuring temperature using Celsius and
Fahrenheit
thermometers. Students will use "the hand" to help them reference relative
temperature. When
finished with temperature, we will explore weight and mass (next week).
We will also continue our almost daily 1 minute multiplication facts quiz.
Students begin with
their x2's, and move on to successive numbers as they pass each level.
Keep working on basic addition and subtraction facts. Please go over AM TOPS
reports and
graded math assignments with your child. Watch for items missed and ask your
student to explain
how he/she arrived at any answer.
Visit the Harcourt website under my Math Links for additional vocabulary and
concept help.
(Password is Burton)
Please take note of your child's ability to tell time using analog and
digital clocks. It will
help your child a great deal if s/he has a solid grasp of this second grade
skill.
Science - Our plants (Wisconsin Fast Plants) were sent home during break.
Hopefully, you had a
chance to cross pollinate and observe these plants. If your plants produced
seeds, please bring
the seed pods to school. As part of this unit, we would like to collect
seeds from every day
life. As you eat fruits or notice other plant seeds in the coming weeks,
please bring the seeds
to school. This week we will study freeze dried bees up close. We will
learn about the parts of
a bee's body.
12/22/2008
Thank you to our parents who assisted with the holiday party: Mr. and Mrs.
Christianson, Mrs.
Sharbaugh, Mr. Pate, Mr. and Mrs. Peterman, Mrs. King, and Mrs.
Pakulniewicz. Thank you also to
Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Woods for assisting with our Sweden/Lucia Day
instruction. Your presence
made the day more enjoyable for all the students:)
Thank you for bringing gently used (or even new) books for our grade 3
community service
project! Mrs. Tobin delivered the books to enthusiastic recipients at Winter
Park Elementary.
Thank you also for donating books from the book fair wish list. These books
have been added to
our classroom library for student use. Several of these books are Newbery
Award recipients.
Also - our class has been participating in Scholastic Book's "Classrooms
that Care" project.
Under this program, our students simply read 100 books, tell Scholastic that
we have read them,
and Scholastic donates 100 books to needy schools. Our class has read well
over 100 books and
Scholastic has donated 100 new books on our behalf!
SCHOOL RESUMES ON MONDAY, JANUARY 5TH.
Our schedule has been changed. We now study writing before lunch and study
math after
lunch.
We will begin another round of the Readers Wheel after Winter Break.
Link to Reader's Wheel and book lists (cut and paste):
http://10.190.1.99/InfoCentre/LibraryQuick.do;jsessionid=70306C4768B9EF7463E7
B9FF901BB867
Math - We will begin studying measurement after break. We will explore
temperature and length.
We will continue with multiplication and division.
We will also continue our almost daily 1 minute multiplication facts quiz.
Students begin with
their x2's, and move on to successive numbers as they pass each level.
Keep working on basic addition and subtraction facts. Please go over AM TOPS
reports and
graded math assignments with your child. Watch for items missed and ask your
student to explain
how he/she arrived at any answer.
Visit the Harcourt website under my Math Links for additional vocabulary and
concept help.
(Password is Burton)
Science - Our plants (Wisconsin Fast Plants)were sent home during break.
They should flower
over the holidays. If possible, please use a Q-tip, or the bee that was
sent home, to cross
pollinate your flowers. As part of this unit, we would like to collect seeds
from every day
life. As you eat fruits/vegetables or notice seeds in the coming weeks,
please bring the seeds
to school.
Would any student in your home like homework help? Get live homework help
online from real
tutors through the New Hanover County Public Library. Free Tutoring is
available for math,
science, social studies, and English grades K-12, College Intro and Adult
Learners everyday from
3:00 pm to 9:00 pm! Go to www.nhcgov.com/AgnAndDpt/LIBR/Pages/DeptInfo.aspx.
You will then be
ask to type in your Library Card Number found on the back of your or your
child’s NHC Public
Library card.
Check the calendar page for upcoming dates. Thank you for checking your
child's green calendar
each day, and for helping to see that they are reading and doing homework.
Each day, your
children are coming to school rested and ready to learn - thank you!
12/14/2008
Thank you for bringing gently used (or even new) books for our grade 3
community service
project! Our students wrote personal notes in these books last Friday.
Mrs. Tobin will deliver
the books to Winter Park on 12/15.
Thank you also for donating books from the book fair wish list. These books
have been added to
our classroom library for student use. Several of these books are Newbery
Award recipients.
Also - our class has been participating in Scholastic Book's "Classrooms
that Care" project.
Under this program, our students simply read 100 books, tell Scholastic that
we have read them,
and Scholastic donates 100 books to needy schools. Our class has read well
over 100 books and
Scholastic has donated 100 new books on our behalf!
On Thursday of this week, all third graders will learn about various
countries and their winter
celebrations. Students will "travel" to China, Sweden, Israel, Mexico, and
Australia. It will
be a day full of social studies and reading!
Our classroom's winter celebration will begin around 1:00 on Friday. We have
several centers
planned. Parents who would like to assist at a center should email Ms.
Warnes.
SCHOOL ENDS AT 2:30 ON FRIDAY AND RESUMES ON MONDAY, JANUARY 5TH.
Our schedule has been changed. We now study writing before lunch and study
math after
lunch.
Parsley's student council is sponsoring a "Head to Toe" drive. Third graders
are asked to bring
new gloves. Items can be left in the front foyer of Parsley.
Language Arts - This week we will are studying trickster tales. We will
also learn about
synonyms, inflected endings, and using an atlas. In writing, we will repair
stringy sentences
and learn about using dialogue.
All students are challenged to complete their Readers Wheel before Winter
Break.
Congratulations to Alex, Sara, Ana, Zach, and Price. They have completed
their Reader's Wheels!
Link to Reader's Wheel and Newbery book lists (cut and paste):
http://10.190.1.99/InfoCentre/LibraryQuick.do;jsessionid=70306C4768B9EF7463E7
B9FF901BB867
Math - We have explored several ways to understand the concept of
multiplication and division.
This week we will continue to apply these concepts to word problems, learn
about division as
repeated subtraction, and take our chapter test.
We continue our almost daily 1 minute multiplication facts quiz. Students
begin with their
x2's, and move on to successive numbers as they pass each level. Watch for
1/3 page sheets in
your child's Parsley folder to see the most recent progress.
Continue to work on basic addition and subtraction facts. Please go over AM
TOPS reports and
graded math assignments with your child. Watch for items missed and ask your
student to explain
how he/she arrived at any answer.
Visit the Harcourt website under my Math Links for additional vocabulary and
concept help.
(Password is Burton)
Science - Our plants (Wisconsin Fast Plants) have entered their growth
spurt. We are measuring
and graphing their growth on a daily basis. The plants have gone
beyond "seed leaves" and have
sprouted "true leaves". Hopefully, they will begin to flower before Winter
Break begins! We
will also learn about bees this week.
As part of this unit, we would like to collect seeds from every day life.
As you eat
fruits/vegetables or notice seeds in the coming weeks, please bring the
seeds to school. 12/1/2008
Book Fair Family Night is Monday, December 1. It will be held in the
multipurpose room from 6-
8pm. You may purchase books that night. You may also purchase books
between 7:30am and
3:00pm starting on Tuesday.
Students in my class will be able to go to the book fair before 7:45am and
between 11:00 and
11:30am each day.
Three information sheets were recently sent home: 1) Updated Accelerated
Reading goals and
reading levels were sent home on 11/12. 2) Information regarding the various
ways we approach
multiplication, tips on how to help your child memorize, and extra credit
for Thanksgiving
break was sent home on 11/21. 3) A letter regarding our grade 3 community
service project was
sent home on 11/24. Our project is to donate gently used books to other
children in New Hanover
County. Third graders are invited to bring in a gently used book from home
before December
10th.
Our class schedule has been changed. We now study writing before lunch and
study math after
lunch.
Congratulations to Erin for her Reflections entry. She received first place
in the grades 3-5
photography category. Congratulations to all students for their great
Reflections entries!
Science Fair - It's not to late to sign up for the Parsley Science Fair.
Pick up an entry form
at Parsley's office and turn it in by December 5th. Follow this link for
more information:
http://www.nhcs.k12.nc.us/instruction/6-12math_sci/sciencefair.htm (This
link is also on Ms.
Warnes' Science Links page.)
A list of "Word Master" definitions was recently put in the Parsley
folders. This list of words
comes from Ms. Youmans. We are encouraging all students to study this list
of definitions in
preparation for a "Word Masters" competition in December. Students will be
using these words to
complete analogies. As you study these words with your child, try to make
connections between
these words and other words. Try to create analogies for the words.
Parsley's Student Council sponsored the Friends Feeding Friends Food Drive.
All donated food was
delivered to the Second Harvest Food Bank. Thank you for donating to the
food drive! he student
council ias now sponsoring a "Head to Toe" drive. Third graders are asked to
bring new gloves.
Items can be left in the front foyer of Parsley.
Language Arts - This week we will learn about similes and outlining. We
will learn more about
special plural nouns and dictionary definitions. Students have been writing
news articles about
a holiday or celebration. Toward the end of this week and into next week,
we will review all of
the concepts we have been studying during our "Traditions" theme. Review
topics include
author's viewpoint, categorizing and classifying, noting details, main ideas
with supporting
details, compound words, various forms of plurals, contractions, word
families, dictionary guide
words and definitions, rhyming words, and proper nouns.
All students are challenged to complete their Readers Wheel before Winter
Break.
Congratulations to Alex who has already completed his Reader's Wheel!
Math - We have explored several ways to understand the concept of
multiplication. This week we
will apply the concept to word problems, take our chapter test, and preview
division through
missing factors in a number sentence. Next week (12/8-12/12) we will begin
to learn about
division. We will do this with a hands on exploration of distributing the
product into
factors.
We continue our almost daily 1 minute multiplication
facts quiz. Students begin with their x2's, and move on to successive
numbers as they pass each
level. Three fourths of the class has already passed their x2's and has
moved on to 3, 4, or 5!
Continue to work on basic addition and subtraction facts. The goal is to be
able to answer at
least 80% correct on a 100 item five minute test. Please go over AM TOPS
reports and graded
math assignments with your child. Watch for items missed and ask your
student to explain how
he/she arrived at any answer.
Visit the Harcourt website under my Math Links for additional vocabulary and
concept help.
(Password is Burton)
Social Studies - We are studying geography, learning about various kinds of
maps, how to read a map, land forms, and how people have adapted to the
environment around them.
Science - On November 21 we had a "Cruciferous Tasting". The plants in our
next science unit
come from the cruciferous plant family. Students observed and tasted bok
choy, brocolli, red
cabbage, brussel sprouts, kale, and rhutabaga. We will soon be learning
about seed germination.
Would any student in your home like homework help? Get live homework help
online from real
tutors through the New Hanover County Public Library. Free Tutoring is
available for math,
science, social studies, and English grades K-12, College Intro and Adult
Learners everyday from
3:00 pm to 9:00 pm! Go to www.nhcgov.com/AgnAndDpt/LIBR/Pages/DeptInfo.aspx.
You will then be
ask to type in your Library Card Number found on the back of your or your
child’s NHC Public
Library card.
Check the calendar page for upcoming dates. Thank you for checking your
child's green calendar
each day, and for helping to see that they are reading and doing homework.
Each day, your
children are coming to school rested and ready to learn - thank you!
11/9/08
Report cards for the first nine weeks will be sent home on November 10.
Please sign and return
the Xerox copy to school. The report card envelope will also include a
record
of your child's AR
reading for the last nine weeks and a record of your child's Accelerated
Math
progress for the
last nine weeks.
Parsley's Student Council is sponsoring the Friends Feeding Friends Food
Drive from November 11
to November 21. All donated food will be delivered to the Second Harvest
Food Bank which serves
local families. Each year Parsley students have donated over 2,000 pounds
of
food for this
drive. With our current economic times, food banks are expecting ever
increasing demand. Thank
you for your generosity! Food items can be delivered directly to the front
foyer of Parsley.
If you are interested in volunteering at Sunset Park's Fall Festival , or
donating baked goods,
please contact Lissa Unrue at munrue@ec.rr.com. Sunset Park's fall festival
is Friday, November
14, from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Veteran's Day Holiday is November 11. Take time this day to honor our
service
people. It is a
no school day. There is bowling at Cardinal Lanes from 1-4.
Check out the calendar page for additional events.
Science fair interest sheets were sent home last week. If your child is
interested in
participating in Parsley's Science Fair, he/she should complete this sheet
and return it to
school.
Language Arts - Our reading skills this week, and into next week, will focus
on summarizing,
noting details, and categorizing/classifying. We will also work on taking
notes, drawing
conclusions, and following a recipe. Our word study skills will include
contractions, consonant
clusters (spr, thr, str), unexpected patterns (kn, wr, tch), singular and
plural nouns, and
exact nouns. We will focus on writing answers to questions using complete
sentences. New AR
goals will be sent home this week. All students are challenged to complete
their Readers Wheel
before Winter Break. Congratulations to Alex who has already completed his
Reader's Wheel!
Math - We will continue our study of probability and will begin exploring
combinations and
permutations. A family letter with related vocabulary was sent home last
week. Visit the
Harcourt website under my Math Links for additional vocabulary and concept
help. (Password is
Burton)
Continue to work on basic addition and subtraction facts. The goal is to be
able to answer at
least 80% correct on a 100 item five minute test. Please go over AM TOPS
reports and graded
math assignments with your child. Watch for items missed and ask your
student
to explain how
he/she arrived at any answer.
Social Studies - We will begin our study of geography. We will understand
the various kinds of
maps and how to read a map. We will learn about land forms and how people
have adapted to the
environment around them.
Kids Vote results for all New Hanover County Schools:
Obama 8044, McCain 5259, Barr 291
Boseman 968, Lee 687
Hagan 4112, Dole 3270, Cole 904
McIntyre 5116, Breazeale 2776
Perdue 4109, McCrory 3507, Munger 1174
Would any student in your home like homework help? Get live homework help
online from real
tutors through the New Hanover County Public Library. Free Tutoring is
available for math,
science, social studies, and English grades K-12, College Intro and Adult
Learners everyday from
3:00 pm to 9:00 pm! Go to www.nhcgov.com/AgnAndDpt/LIBR/Pages/DeptInfo.aspx.
You will then be
ask to type in your Library Card Number found on the back of your or your
child’s NHC Public
Library card.
Check the calendar page for upcoming dates. Thank you for checking your
child's green calendar
each day, and for helping to see that they are reading and doing homework.
Each day, your
children are coming to school rested and ready to learn - thank you!
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10/27/08
Thank you for all your creative and generous donations to our Fall Festival
Bucket! The Fall
Festival was a great success thanks to all our volunteers.
Thank you to all our parents who chaperoned the Tar Heels Go Walking
fieldtrip. We had a great
day learning about the history and civics of our downtown area.
If you are interested in volunteering at Sunset Park's Fall Festival , or
donating baked goods,
please contact Lissa Unrue at munrue@ec.rr.com. Sunset Park's fall festival
is Friday, November
14, from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Report cards for the first nine weeks will be sent home on November 10.
Language Arts - Our reading skills at the beginning of this week will
continue with author's
viewpoint, details, and discerning fact and opinion. Our word study skills
at the beginning of
the week will include compound words, long a and long e vowel sounds (ai,
ay,
eigh, ee, and ea),
homophones, and word families. We will finish writing our compare and
contrast essays.
Later in the week and into next week, we will focus on the strategy of
asking
questions while we
read. We will work on conducting interviews, predicting outcomes, and
exploring character's
perspective. Our skills study will include proper nouns, plurals, long
vowels (a, oa, ow), run
on sentences and dictionary guide words. Our writing focus next week will
be
writing a
character sketch.
Math - This week, we will review math concepts from this grading period.
Next week, we will
begin our study of probability.
Continue to work on basic addition and subtraction facts. The goal is to be
able to answer at
least 80% correct on a 100 item five minute test. Please go over AM TOPS
reports and graded
math assignments with your child. Watch for items missed and ask your
student
to explain how
he/she arrived at any answer.
Social Studies - Students will be participating in "Kids Vote" on 10/28.
Kids Vote is a mock
election for students. Hopefully, they are asking lots of candidate
questions at home as we
explore our government and the election process.
Are you interested in the PTA Reflections program? It is a nation-wide arts
contest that
gives students the opportunity to create works of art based on a theme. The
2008-2009 theme
is "Wow!". Students may submit entries for Photography, Literature, Visual
Arts, Musical
Composition, Film/Video Production, or Dance Choreography. Entries are due
November 21. Be sure
to read and follow all contest rules that were sent home in your child’s
folder. As we receive
your interest sheets we will send home forms or you can visit
www.nhcs.net/parsley/Events/Reflections0809.html to print your own.
Would any student in your home like homework help? Get live homework help
online from real
tutors through the New Hanover County Public Library. Free Tutoring is
available for math,
science, social studies, and English grades K-12, College Intro and Adult
Learners everyday from
3:00 pm to 9:00 pm! Go to www.nhcgov.com/AgnAndDpt/LIBR/Pages/DeptInfo.aspx.
You will then be
ask to type in your Library Card Number found on the back of your or your
child’s NHC Public
Library card.
We welcome UNCW education student Matt Lucca to our classroom. He will be
observing, tutoring,
and occasionally teaching in our classroom. Matt taught our gummy worm vs
Hershey kiss voting
lesson last week. It was great to see the students' enthusiasm as they made
their case for each
candidate and awaited the ballot counting.
Check the calendar page for upcoming dates. Thank you for checking your
child's green calendar
each day, and for helping to see that they are reading and doing homework.
Each day, your
children are coming to school rested and ready to learn - thank you!
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10/19/08
Directions for payment or return of photos is on the photo
envelope. The deadline for returning photos or payment is October 31.
Hooray, our reading and math student workbooks have arrived! Students are
responsible for
taking them home and returning them to school each day.
Parsley's Fall Festival is scheduled for Saturday, October 25. A highlight
of this event is the
raffling of class buckets. Each class chooses a theme and puts together a
bucket around that
theme. OUR BUCKET THEME IS “FAMILY FUN NIGHT”. Please bring donations for
our class bucket on or
before October 21 – thank you!! Thank you to Ms. Hedgepeth and Ms. Peterman
for coordinating our bucket.
Our "Tarheels Go Walking" fieldtrip is this Thursday. Remember to bring
your sack lunch (in a
disposable sack). You will also need to wear a jacket and tennis shoes. We
will do lots of
outdoor walking! We will be going with Ms. Bailey's class. This is an
opportunity for us to
learn about several historical sites in Wilmington, as well as to learn more
about our local
government. Thank you to our chaperones :)
Mark your calendars for October 28. Kindergarten has scheduled their
curriculum night from
5:30-6:15. Third grade has scheduled our curriculum night from 6:15-7:00.
We will meet in the
library. Third grade students will be able to enjoy a Mr. Goodbody video in
the computer lab
during our curriculum night.
Reading and math tests are sent home after we have had opportunity to
reteach the skills.
Please sign and return all tests to school.
Language Arts - Our reading skills focus this week is author's viewpoint.
We will also note
details and discern fact and opinion. Our word study skills include
compound words, long a and
long e vowel sounds (ai, ay, eigh, ee, and ea), homophones, and word
families. Our writing will
focus on paragraphs that compare and contrast.
Math - We will focus on describing and extending geometric and numeric
patterns. We will alos
extend and find missing terms in patterns. A family activities newsletter
was sent home on
Monday.
Continue to work on basic addition and subtraction facts. The goal is to be
able to answer at
least 80% correct on a 100 item five minute test. Please go over AM TOPS
reports and graded
math assignments with your child. Watch for items missed and ask your
student to explain how
he/she arrived at any answer.
Students are researching the branches of government in social studies.
Bring in news articles
about the election.
Are you interested inthe PTA Reflections program? It is a nation-wide arts
contest that
gives students the opportunity to create works of art based on a theme. The
2008-2009 theme
is "Wow!". Students may submit entries for Photography, Literature, Visual
Arts, Musical
Composition, Film/Video Production, or Dance Choreography. Entries are due
November 21. Be sure
to read and follow all contest rules that were sent home in your child’s
folder. As we receive
your interest sheets we will send home forms or you can visit
www.nhcs.net/parsley/Events/Reflections0809.html to print your own.
Would any student in your home like homework help? Get live homework help
online from real
tutors through the New Hanover County Public Library. Free Tutoring is
available for math,
science, social studies, and English grades K-12, College Intro and Adult
Learners everyday from
3:00 pm to 9:00 pm! Go to www.nhcgov.com/AgnAndDpt/LIBR/Pages/DeptInfo.aspx.
You will then be
ask to type in your Library Card Number found on the back of your or your
child’s NHC Public
Library card.
We welcome UNCW education student Matt Luca to our classroom. He will be
observing, tutoring,
and occasionally teaching in our classroom.
Check the calendar page for upcoming dates. Thank you for checking your
child's green calendar
each day, and for helping to see that they are reading and doing homework.
Each day, your
children are coming to school rested and ready to learn - thank you!
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email address of all recipients will be kept private. Well over half of our
parents have signed
up to receive automatic notification.
10/13/08 Our school email system is up and running again.
Pictures were picked up at Proud Patriot Night tonight. They will be sent
home tomorrow for
those unable to attend PPN. Directions for payment or return of photos is
on
the photo
envelope. The deadline for returning photos or payment is October 31.
Hooray, our reading and math student workbooks have arrived! Students are
responsible for
taking them home and returning them to school each day.
Parsley's Fall Festival is scheduled for Saturday, October 25. This is a
fun
(and fundraising)
event for all students and friends of Parsley. A highlight of this event is
the raffling of
class buckets. Each class chooses a theme and puts together a bucket around
that theme. OUR
BUCKET THEME IS “FAMILY FUN NIGHT”. Be creative! This can be anything that
families like to do
together... a family movie, board games, restaurant gift certificates, a
night out doing
something they enjoy doing together or something new... Donations for our
class bucket can be
brought to the classroom at any time – thank you!! Thank you to Ms.
Hedgepeth
and Ms. Peterman
for coordinating our bucket. (We have already received tickets to Dawgs
games, a family game,
and Carvel gift certificates - thanks!)
Mark your calendars for October 23. This will be our "Tarheels Go Walking"
fieldtrip. All 3rd
grade students in New Hanover County Schools take this fieldtrip. This is
an
opportunity for us
to learn about several historical sites in Wilmington, as well as to learn
more about our local
government. A permission slip for this was sent home on October 6.
Also mark your calendars for October 28. Kindergarten has scheduled their
curriculum night from
5:30-6:15. Third grade has scheduled our curriculum night from 6:15-7:00.
We will meet in the
library. Third grade students will be able to enjoy a Mr. Goodbody video in
the computer lab
during our curriculum night. Please fill out the parent survey sent home
today. This will help
us plan a meaningful curriculum night for you.
Reading and math tests are sent home after we have had opportunity to
reteach
the skills.
Please sign and return all tests to school.
Would any student in your home like homework help? Get live homework help
online from real
tutors through the New Hanover County Public Library. Free Tutoring is
available for math,
science, social studies, and English grades K-12, College Intro and Adult
Learners everyday from
3:00 pm to 9:00 pm! Go to www.nhcgov.com/AgnAndDpt/LIBR/Pages/DeptInfo.aspx.
You will then be
ask to type in your Library Card Number found on the back of your or your
child’s NHC Public
Library card.
Language Arts - We have begun a week of poetry study. Students will study a
variety of poems
and poetry vocabulary. They will learn about a poet and write their own
poems. We will also
learn about similes, metaphors, and prefixes (un-, non-, dis-).
Math - We continue to review graph making and graph interpreting skills. We
are learning about
ordered pairs and finding coordinates on a grid. When working with ordered
pairs it is helpful
to remember that you always start at zero, counting across, then up. The
first number in the
pair is the across number and the second number in the pair is the up number
on the grid. (We
say to start at the airport terminal, go across the runway, then up in the
air.) We will test
on our graphing unit on 10/16.
Continue to work on basic addition and subtraction facts. The goal is to be
able to answer at
least 80% correct on a 100 item five minute test. Please go over AM TOPS
reports and graded
math assignments with your child. Watch for items missed and ask your
student
to explain how
he/she arrived at any answer.
Our science unit is exploring kinds of joints and how those joints function.
We will
begin studying our branches of government and electoral system in Social
Studies. Start
bringing in any candidate information that arrives in your mail.
Are you interested inthe PTA Reflections program? It is a nation-wide arts
contest that
gives students the opportunity to create works of art based on a theme. The
2008-2009 theme
is "Wow!". Students may submit entries for Photography, Literature, Visual
Arts, Musical
Composition, Film/Video Production, or Dance Choreography. Entries are due
November 21. Be sure
to read and follow all contest rules that were sent home in your child’s
folder. As we receive
your interest sheets we will send home forms or you can visit
www.nhcs.net/parsley/Events/Reflections0809.html to print your own.
We welcome UNCW education student Matt Luca to our classroom. He will be
observing, tutoring,
and occasionally teaching in our classroom.
Check the calendar page for upcoming dates. Thank you for checking your
child's green calendar
each day, and for helping to see that they are reading and doing homework.
Each day, your
children are coming to school rested and ready to learn - thank you!
Would you like to receive email notification every time this NewsFlash is
updated? Just click
below and type in your email address. Your email address will not be used
for anything except
notification of NewsFlash updates. Email recipients will be blind copied
(bcc'd) so that the
email address of all recipients will be kept private. Well over half of our
parents have signed
up to receive automatic notification.
10/8/08 Our school email system is down. I am currently not able to read
or
send emails.
Please communicate via your child's green calendar. Mrs. Jarrell checks
these daily.
10/5/08
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Parsley's Fall Festival is scheduled for Saturday, October 25. This is a
fun
(and fundraising)
event for all students and friends of Parsley. A highlight of this event is
the raffling of
class buckets. Each class chooses a theme and puts together a bucket around
that theme. OUR
BUCKET THEME IS “FAMILY FUN NIGHT”. Be creative! This can be anything that
families like to do
together... a family movie, board games, restaurant gift certificates, a
night out doing
something they enjoy doing together or something new... Donations for our
class bucket can be
brought to the classroom at any time – thank you!! Thank you to Ms.
Hedgepeth
and Ms. Peterman
for coordinating our bucket. (We have already received tickets to Dawgs
games and Carvel gift
certificates - thanks!)
Mark your calendars for Monday, October 13. There will be a brief PTA
meeting, and then Proud
Patriot Night. Third Grade Curriculum Night is being rescheduled. Also,
mark
your calendars for
October 23. This will be our "Tarheels Go Walking" fieldtrip. All 3rd
grade
students in New
Hanover County Schools take this fieldtrip. This is an opportunity for us
to
learn about
several historical sites in Wilmington, as well as to learn more about our
local government. A
permission slip for this was sent home on October 6.
Reading and math tests are sent home after we have had opportunity to
reteach
the skills.
Please sign and return all tests to school.
We are currently reviewing all previously learned reading strategies and
reading skills
instruction. We are reviewing the strategies of making inferences, sequence
of events,and
cause/effect. We are reviewing skills related to base words, parts of a
book, syllabication,
inflected endings, short vowel spelling, vowel-consonant-e spelling,
dictionary use, complete
sentences, types of sentences, comma use, and capitalization. We will have
a
theme skills
review test on October 9. This review test will be a good opportunity for
students to bring up
previous reading test scores.
Our math instruction has focused on rounding. A rounding letter was sent
home in Parsley
folders on 9/25. Memorizing and practicing the "4 or less, go home and
rest... 5 or more, go
home and score" strategy will help students as we begin rounding to the
thousands place. We
will be reviewing our graph making and graph interpreting skills this coming
week.
Continue to work on basic addition and subtraction facts. The goal is to be
able to answer at
least 80% correct on a 100 item five minute test.
You have started to see Accelerated Math TOPS reports come home. See the
Accelerated
Reading/Accelerated Math page on this website for more information on
Accelerated Math (AM).
Our science unit is exploring kinds of joints and how those joints function.
We will
begin studying our branches of government and electoral system in Social
Studies. Start
bringing in any candidate information that arrives in your mail.
Remember to join Parsley's PTA. Our PTA does SO MUCH for our children! It
provides a
great deal of academic support and provides many educational opportunities
that simply wouldn't
otherwise be available.
Be sure to sign in at Parsley's office EVERYTIME you come to the classroom
after 8:00am - even
if it is to quickly drop something off. In fact, it is best to drop an item
off in the office
and the office staff will make sure we receive it in the classroom. The
sign
in policy is for
the safety of all students. If you are picking your child up at the fence
after school, please
indicate that your child is a walker. Car riders will be walked to the car
pick up area near
the front entrance.
Check the calendar page for upcoming dates. Thank you for checking your
child's green calendar
each day, and for helping to see that they are reading and doing homework.
Each day, your
children are coming to school rested and ready to learn - thank you!
9/28/08
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Thank you to all who attended the volunteer meeting on 9/18 and to all who
volunteer at
Parsley. Parent volunteers enrich each child's learning experience! Thank
you to Ms.
Christianson who will serve as our roomparent, and to Ms. King who will
serve
with her. Thank
you to Ms. Hedgepeth who will coordinate our Fall Festival bucket and Ms.
Peterman who will
serve with her.
Mark your calendars for Monday, October 13. There will be a brief PTA
meeting, and then Proud
Patriot Night. Third Grade Curriculum Night is being rescheduled.
Reading and math tests are sent home after we have had opportunity to
reteach
the skills.
Please sign and return all tests to school.
We are currently reviewing all previously learned reading strategies and
reading skills
instruction. We are reviewing the strategies of making inferences, sequence
of events,and
cause/effect. We are reviewing skills related to base words, parts of a
book, syllabication,
inflected endings, short vowel spelling, vowel-consonant-e spelling,
dictionary use, complete
sentences, types of sentences, comma use, and capitalization. We will have
a
theme skills
rweview test on October 9. This review test will be a good opportunity for
students to bring up
previous reading test scores.
Our math instruction has focused on rounding. A rounding letter was sent
home in Parsley
folders on 9/25. Memorizing and practicing the "4 or less, go home and
rest... 5 or more, go
home and score" strategy will help students as we begin rounding to the
thousands place.
Continue to work on basic addition and subtraction facts. The goal is to be
able to answer at
least 80% correct on a 100 item five minute test.
You have started to see Accelerated Math TOPS reports come home. See the
Accelerated
Reading/Accelerated Math page on this website for more information on
Accelerated Math (AM).
Our science unit is exploring kinds of joints and how those joints function.
We will
begin studying our electoral system in Social Studies. Start bringing in
any
candidate
information that arrives in your mail.
Remember to join Parsley's PTA. Our PTA does SO MUCH for our children! It
provides a
great deal of academic support and provides many educational opportunities
that simply wouldn't
otherwise be available.
Be sure to sign in at Parsley's office EVERYTIME you come to the classroom
after 8:00am - even
if it is to quickly drop something off. In fact, it is best to drop an item
off in the office
and the office staff will make sure we receive it in the classroom. The
sign
in policy is for
the safety of all students. If you are picking your child up at the fence
after school, please
indicate that your child is a walker. Car riders will be walked to the car
pick up area near
the front entrance.
Check the calendar page for upcoming dates. Thank you for checking your
child's green calendar
each day, and for helping to see that they are reading and doing homework.
Each day, your
children are coming to school rested and ready to learn - thank you!
9/14/08
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Now for the NewsFlash:
We will brief meeting on Thursday, Sept. 18 at 2:45 in our classroom for
anyone who would like
to volunteer in various ways (tutoring, recess, clerical, room parent, fall
festival bucket...)
We are fortunate to have several parents who have volunteered. We will meet
on Thursday to
schedule what works best for all of you. If you can't attend Wednesday, but
would like to
volunteer, please send an email. Thank you!!!
Two letters were sent home last week. One of them included information (and
vocabulary) for our
current math studies. The other letter had information about Accelerated
Reader, including your
child's reading range (ZPD) and AR goal for this nine week grading period.
We have concluded all of our NC Grade Three Pretests. The students worked
very hard on these
tests and quickly caught on to the art of bubbling! The state has not
released information on
when the test results will be known. Starting 9/23, we will be
administering
the Cognitive
Abilities Test (CoGAT).
We took our first spelling test and reading skills test last week. Please
sign and return all
tests to school. The graded spelling test will come home on 9/15. We will
be reteaching the
reading skills as needed. Your child's skills test will be sent home after
we have had
opportunity to reteach the skills.
Our language arts instruction this week will focus on reading strategies,
particularly "monitoring and clarifying" and " making inferences". Our
skills
instruction will
focus on syllabication, multiple meaning words, kinds of sentences, and more
short vowels.
Our math instruction has reviewed place value and fact families. We have
learned about
expanded, word, and standard form - three ways to describe numbers. We have
introduced the
addition properties of identity, order, and grouping. We will review place
value this week,
take our chapter 2 test, review greater and less than, and learn about
ordering numbers. PLEASE
work on basic addition and subtracton facts. The goal is to be able to
answer 100 addition or
subtraction facts in 5 minutes or less.
We began our study of the skeletal system last week.
Please remember to join Parsley's PTA. Our PTA does SO MUCH for our
children! It provides a
great deal of academic support and provides many educational opportunities
that simply wouldn't
otherwise be available.
Thank you for sharing snack with the class! I've been asked to remind all
parents of the
district policy which requires that all food brought into the classroom
be "store bought". The
policy does not allow homemade food stuffs to be brought to the classroom.
Check the calendar page for upcoming dates. Thank you for checking your
child's green calendar
each day, and for helping to see that they are reading and doing homework.
Each day, your
children are coming to school rested and ready to learn - thank you!
9/10/08
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Now for the newsflash:
Two letters were sent home today. One of them includes information (and
vocabulary!) for our current math studies. The other letter has information
about Accelerated Reader, including your child's reading range (ZPD) and AR
goal for this nine week grading period.
We started our study of the skeletal system this week. We began by trying
to discern how many bones might be in our bodies. Hmmm... I wonder how many
there really are.
We have concluded all of our NC Grade Three Pretests. The students worked
very hard on these tests and quickly caught on to the art of bubbling! The
state has not yet released information on when the test results will be
known. In about two weeks we will be administering the Cognitive Abilities
Test
(CoGAT).
Our language arts instruction has focused on reading strategies,
particularly "making predictions". We have also focused on cause and effect,
making complete sentences, short vowel sounds, base words, alphabetizing,
and simply learning our reading center procedures.
Our math instruction has reviewed place value and fact families. We have
learned about expanded, word, and standard form - three ways to describe
numbers. We have introduced the addition properties of identity, order, and
grouping.
Please remember to join Parsley's PTA. Our PTA does SO MUCH for our
children! It provides a great deal of academic support and provides many
educational opportunities that simply wouldn't otherwise be available.
Thank you for sharing snack with the class! I've been asked to remind all
parents of the
district policy which requires that all food brought into the classroom
be "store bought". The
policy does not allow homemade food stuffs to be brought to the classroom.
Check the calendar page for upcoming dates. Thank you for checking your
child's green calendar each day, and for helping to see that they are
reading and doing homework. Each day, your children are coming to school
rested and ready to learn - thank you!
I look forward to our testing calendar settling down. When this happens, I
also look forward to making volunteer contacts :)
9/2/08
Our second week is under way!
This week includes three mornings of grade 3 pre-testing. We will move our
reading and math studies to the afternoon to accomodate the testing.
Please note this information form the cafeteria: The cafeteria is no longer
able to create "master accounts" for multiple children in one family due to
our new computer program. When sending one check for multiple children,
please specify if you want it divided between children, and how you want it
divided. We will be glad to honor these requests. Thank you for your
patience was we work out the "kinks" in our new software.
AR reading is between 7:30 and 8:00. There is usually some time at the end
of the day also. Students are able to go to the library until the first
bell
rings at 7:53 in the morning. The library is closed for check out from
8:00 -
9:30. (This is because all Parsley students are receiving reading
instruction during this time.) I will also try to give them time at the end
of the day to go to the library. Students may check out two library books
at
a time, one of which should always be a chapter book. They need to take an
AR test on both of their books before going to the library.
8/22/08
Welcome to Parsley! Thank you for coming to our open house on Thursday,
August 21. Our class had 100% participation. It was great to meet so many
students and family members!
School starts on Tuesday, August 26. Please bring your Parsley folder and
completed forms to school with you on that day.
The Olympic Games are in full swing. Watching the Olympics is a great
way to learn about many nations around the globe. Check the map as you
watch the Olympics.
Learn more about this summer's Olympic Games at
http://en.beijing2008.cn/
Learn more about Olympic history at
http://www.42explore2.com/olympics.htm
Continue following the presidential election. Sign your family up for the
National Student/Parent Mock Election. Go to www.ncmockelection.org.
Get your supplies for grade three! (This is a suggested, not required, list)
One 1½ three-ring binder
One pack insertable tab dividers (10 tabs)
Two glue sticks
One flat pencil pouch
Three packs wide-rule loose leaf paper
Two packs pencils
One highlighter
Two 2 pocket folders
See you soon!