Tuesday, April 24, 2018

April Showers




             The school year is starting to wind down!  We have exactly one month from today left in the school year.  I am definitely going to miss seeing these sweet kids every day!  

Don't forget these dates coming up soon in third grade!
-  Edgewood Spring Festival this SATURDAY! 3-7 PM
-  May 4th:  Spirit Day fundraiser envelopes due
-  May 22nd:  Spirit Day
-  May 24th:  Last day for students (1:30 dismissal)

Here are some highlights from this past month:
-  Our amazing student teacher, Miss O'Neal, left us to go finish her student teaching at her final placement
-  We finished Scantron state testing
-  Students finished their National Symbols unit
-  Starting a new science unit on water
-  Trash to Treasure Day!
-  Learning about how to take care of the Earth through the 3 R's
-  McWane Science Center in-school fieldtrip
-  "I turned into a celebrity" narrative writing assignment
-  Cultures of the World project
-  Genre study
-  Finding elapsed time
-  Area and Perimeter Zoo Project
-  Area and Perimeter name activity
-  Earth Day invention project
-  "The Case of the Litterbug" detective math activity