Busy as Bees

Dear Parents and Students,

First I want to say happy birthday to Aoi Fujimoto.  It was his birthday on Wednesday.  We wish him endless happiness and great health. Plus good scores!  J

Please take note of the following dates:

Math Test:  September 26^th (Chapters 2 & 3)

English Test:  September 28^th (Unit 2)

Science Test:  October 1^st (Chapters 2 & 3)

Social Studies Test:  October 5^th (Chapter 2)

Assembly:  September 28^th at 2.20pm

Awareness Week:  October 1^st – 5^th

Curriculum Planning for Week 5:

Math:  We will review and get tested on Chapters 2 and 3.  We will then move on to Chapter 4, Add Whole Numbers.

Science:  We will finish and review Chapter 2.  Then we will move on to Chapter 3, Living Things Grow and Reproduce.

Social Studies:  We will start with Chapter 2 in Week 5.  In Chapter 2 we will learn about communities of different sizes and look at urban, suburban and rural communities. 

English:  We will finish and review Unit 2.

Reading:  We will do our last 2 stories of our first theme, Radio Rescue and Sybil Ludington’s Midnight Ride.  We will also focus a little bit on poetry.

Spelling Words for Week 5:

7 Core Subject Words:

skyscrapers

highways

exoskeleton

arthropod

sapling

life cycle

offspring

7 Frequent Used Words:

huge

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

1 Challenging Word:

individual

The third graders did an extraordinary job on their first oral presentation assignment.  Hake a look at what they did.  The previous blog post contains video clips).

And this brings us to Student of the Week.  Our Student of the Week is Rachel Chan.  She did an excellent job in the oral presentation.  Not only that, she is working very hard and she is a well mannered girl.  Congratulations, Rachel.  You are a star!

Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the cooler weather!

Kind Regards,

Ms. Crous