Greetings Families,
I apologize that I am getting to this late. I hope you enjoyed your weekend. I wanted to let you know that my wife, Emily, is due to deliver our third child, Sarah Ruth, on Friday. If things go well, it will happen Friday after school is over, but these things don't often work out according to our ideal plans. That being said, there is no way to know when I will be out. Thankfully we have a very skilled assistant to step in during my absence. It might be nice if some of our regular volunteers reached out to her to see if anyone could help cover recesses and lunches, assuming I must miss some school days.
Let's get to the lessons for the week.
I apologize that I am getting to this late. I hope you enjoyed your weekend. I wanted to let you know that my wife, Emily, is due to deliver our third child, Sarah Ruth, on Friday. If things go well, it will happen Friday after school is over, but these things don't often work out according to our ideal plans. That being said, there is no way to know when I will be out. Thankfully we have a very skilled assistant to step in during my absence. It might be nice if some of our regular volunteers reached out to her to see if anyone could help cover recesses and lunches, assuming I must miss some school days.
Let's get to the lessons for the week.
Quizzes and Tests:
Tuesday: History Quiz; Christianity and the Fall of the Roman Empire
Friday: Spelling Test
General Announcements:
The third grade team is shifting expectations of book reports in the spirit of organization and preparation for rigor of 4th grade. Students will still have 3 book reports due each quarter but the reports will be in a new format and there will now be due dates for each of them. Book reports will now be worth 20 points each. Please keep in mind with the new due date procedure that typical homework procedure and late policy will apply. If your students has not finished their book when the book report due date approaches he or she may complete the book report based on what they have read so far. Please reach out to me with any questions you many have.
Language Arts:
We continue our Trumpet of the Swan journey by practicing our summarization and text-to-self connections. In Writing and Grammar we will continue work on our descriptive paragraphs by editing and creating final copies. Spalding will consist of the next 30 words in the Q list.
Math:
We will continue our length unit by discussing kilometers by adding and subtracting them.
History:
We will begin the week with a review for our Fall of Rome quiz and have the assessment on Tuesday. We will end the week strong with an introduction to our thrilling Vikings unit; we are all very excited to dive into the new unit!
Science:
We will begin the week with a discussion on energy, which will open the door to our look at sound. Our upcoming field trip in February to the Musical Instrument Museum will complement our sound unit beautifully! Information about the field trip will posted next week!
Best,
Michael Naaktgeboren