April/May news

Dear Parents,
I want to thank you for your support of the Family Fun Fair held last week. I really appreciate all of you who were able to help with our booth. It was nice to see so many of you and the children at the fair. My family and I had so much fun that we stayed until it closed! I want to especially thank Karen Gunnells for the work she did for our class in setting up our booth schedule and making treat bags.
Our class will perform in a chemistry musical on May 18 and May 19. I hope you received an email from me today that included information about the musical. Please let me know if you have any questions or have trouble finding a plain yellow t-shirt. After we complete the chemistry tests I will send the words to the songs home for the children to memorize.
Today I sent home a new permission slip for the Vulcan Materials field trip. Our trip is next week. Half of our class will attend on Tuesday and the other half on Wednesday. You have already paid for this trip so all we need is your signature on the form with the new date. Please return the slip by Friday.
Progress reports will be sent home on Wednesday. Graded papers will come home on Wednesday, too.
It is hard to believe that we only have 5 more weeks left in school! We have so much more to do and learn. Please help your child to continue to study their multiplication facts. I will soon begin multiplication assessments.. The benchmark goak for 3rd grade is the 1 through 5s facts, but I am encouraging the students to learn their facts beyond the 5s. We will have a quiz this Friday on the 7s multiplication facts.
This week in school:
Reading- fables and identifying the important message/lesson learned from them
Math- measurement, perimeter, and multiplication games and practice
Writing - forms of poetry; haikus, cinquains, limericks, acrostics, and shape poems
Science- performing chemisty tests; testing unknown solids
Spelling- silent letters- igh. oa, ie
Read Aloud- The Tale of Despereaux

Thank you and Have a great week!
Mrs. Chapman