Student Highlights 10/23 10/27

Tucson Symphony visit
Math-Completing Unit 2 on graphing
Art-working on self portrait calaveras–take look at the photos! from Miss Vizzini
Music-practicing for the holiday show
Spanish-getting ready for Dia de Los Muertos
Language Arts-Wrapping up our unit on Nature out of Balance, and abstract nouns are tricky!
Chapel- Campus Cleanliness and Positive Politeness
Science- Learning about the bones of the human head
Community–putting up our Bake Sale signs

Unit Three math begins next week and is titled Travel Stories and Collections. The unit focuses on understanding and extending knowledge of place value and the number system to 1000, and adding and subtracting accurately and efficiently. Multiplication and division facts continue to be practiced in class and should also be reviewed during homework. The goal is fluency by the start of fourth grade.

Unit three language arts reading selections focus on how the terms sequence, events, and order relate. Students will also learn the inference reading strategy, which is a guess when students put together what they know with what they see and read or hear to understand something new. For example, seeing my dad smile and knowing he is proud. The anthology’s main selection, Two Old Potatoes and Me is realistic fiction, and the characters, setting, and plot all seem real. Grammar continues to build complex sentences with independent and dependent clauses.

Reminders

October 30th – November 3rd: Spirit Week, details below.
October 31st: Relaxed Dress, Halloween Theme
November 3rd: Field Day, Dismissal at 11:50AM
November 6th: No School
November 7th – 20th: Food Drive for St. Michael’s Food Pantry and Community Food Bank
November 8th – 9th: Bring one Dozen hard boiled eggs for Casa Maria
November 10th: THIRD GRADE BAKE SALE to support the Community Food Bank
November 14th: Field Trip to Community Food Bank
November 21st: Grand Friends Day
December 15th: Field Trip to Tucson Presidio 8:30-1:30 PM
December 15th: Lower School Holiday Program at 2:00 PM

SPIRIT WEEK IS 10/30 -11/3

MONDAY, 10/30: Crazy Hair Day, uniform required
TUESDAY, 10/31: Wear a costume to school. Criteria for costumes includes student’s ability to sit comfortably at their desk and play freely at recess. Gory themes or accessories that are weapons are not allowed. Masks and costume accessories are only allowed during the parade.
WEDNESDAY, 11/1: Silly Socks, uniform required
THURSDAY, 11/2: Dia de Los Muertos, wear a Day of the Dead tee-shirt and uniform bottom.
Friday, 11/3: Half Day, Field Day, wear your Field Day tee-shirt and athletic bottoms and shoes.

Spelling Lesson 11-/ou/ sound spelled ou and ow