Student Highlights 11/27/2023 – 12/1/2023

• Art- Jenn Stark style drip pictures
• Spanish- Singing Spanish songs about Mary and Jesus
• Language Arts- okapis, writing realistic fiction stories
• Math- playing Capture on the 300 chart
• Science- observing water domes
• PE- catching and throwing in the game Capture the Flag
• Wilmot Library Visit for holiday picture books

Scenes from the Art room courtesy of Miss Vizzini: 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Language Arts unit 3 wraps up with reading and understanding a Blog and an Online Article.  We continue to develop our comprehension strategies of making inferences and using text features.  Writing lessons practice elaborating with details and dialogue in realistic fiction stories.  Grammar lessons for plural nouns and suffixes are reinforced in daily lessons. Language arts unit 3 testing is scheduled for December 8-9.

Math students will be solving distance riddles this week.  They will solve travel problems that involve finding the distance between various stops along the way. They will discuss and represent adding up or subtracting back as they focus on the strategy of using 100 as a landmark number.

Looking ahead to December 15th and our field trip to the Tucson Presidio, there are a few details:

• Wear red and khaki and outerwear appropriate for a chilly morning.  We are outside the entire field trip and the tall downtown buildings shade the Presidio.
• Bring a lunch, including a drink.  Lunches are stored in a cooler.
• Departure is 8:45 am and our return to school is at approximately 1:30pm, just in time for the Holiday Program.
• Food at various stations include: wheat flour in tortillas, hard tack, and baked bread. Butter is served with the bread.

In our community time this week, we started working on some small gifts for our lower school community.  This helps us to be mindful that this season is one of giving and spreading joy and we can’t wait to share these gifts with our lower school friends.

 

 

 

 

Mrs. Campbell is quite excited that our Christmas Concert is in just two and a half weeks!  She shared in an email on Blackbaud with parents, that the attire for third grade students is official school uniform and holiday accessories such as Santa hats, antler head bands, festive hair bows, holiday necklaces, etc.  Let’s steal the show with holiday accessories that boldly shine on the message of the season.

Reminders

• Friday 12/8 Monthly Relaxed Dress Day
• Mon 12/14 Christmas Giving Drive Begins
• Thu 12/14 Upper School Band Holiday Performance, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
• Fri 12/15 Field Trip to Tucson Presidio Museum, official school uniform required
• Fri 12/15 Lower School Holiday Performance, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
• Fri 12/15 Upper School Choir Holiday Performance, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
• Tuesday 12/19 Relaxed Dress (Awarded for food drive goal)
• Wed 12/20 Las Posadas Chapel, 10:00 – 11:15am
• Wed 12/20- Half Day (no aftercare)
• Thu 12/21–Wed 1/3 Christmas Break
• Thu 1/4 Classes Resume