End of the Year Party

Third graders will travel to Longfellow Park on Ridgeland on June 3rd for our End of the School Year Party. We will be with our fellow third graders in the pod for this party. Our parent coordinators are planning all of the activities and food. When I have more details I will send home a permission slip and be asking for volunteers in a variety of ways. If you have some ideas or just want to help out, please let our parent coordinator know, Carrie Cotter.

Everyone is welcome to come to our celebration on this day. Please consider stopping by for a little while. It's always fun to be together.

Chicago Research Projects

All Chicago History Projects are due Friday, May 20th. We will share our reports and projects with the class on Friday afternoon. Remember this is a minimum of a 3 point project, with quality work - not quantity. In class we talk every day about the project, and what I expect (neatness, board games with written directions and complete pieces/parts, neat presentations, facts that teach us about the topic on each and every type of project, etc.) Without neatness, thoughtfulness, and well written facts, kids may not earn all of the points. Kids have been given about 45 minutes each day in school since last week Wednesday to work on the projects here.

Next week Tuesday, May 24th from 9:30 - 11:00 we will have a Chicago History Exhibit in the Commons. All families are welcome to stop by and check out all of our wonderful learning.

Dates to Remember

Here are some dates to mark on your calendar:

Tuesday, May 24th = Tribute to Excellence (invitations go home in May) & Chicago presentations 9:30 - 11:00 in the Commons
Friday, May 27th = Olympic Day
Wednesday, June 1st = End of the School Year School Picnic (evening)
Thursday, June 2nd = Wendella Boat and Millennium Park field trip (more info. later)
Friday, June 3rd = End of the School Year Picnic for third grade @ Longfellow Park
Tuesday, June 7th = last day of school (kids dismiss at 9:00 a.m.)

Science

Last week we pollinated the yellow flowers. This week was our final science time together, and we discovered that the pollination we did with bees last week worked! We transferred pollen from flower to flower, and then the pollen should have gone from the stamen to the pistil on the flower, which in turn travels down the stamen to fertilize the ovuals, and create seeds. We can see the seeds on our plants now! We did it!

Reading

We are finished with our Open Court books for the school year!

Writing

All Chicago History Research essays will be graded and returned to students by Friday, 5/20 in the afternoon.

Math

We are working on Chance and Probability this month as our final unit in math. If there is time at the end of the school year we will work on long division and lattice multiplication.