Weekly Newsletter for 4/25/14

Dear Room 4 Families,

We had an eventful week back from Spring Break. Our Room 4 students presented their Famous American projects this week in front of the class and we were delighted to “meet” so many famous figures! We also took our Spring opinion writing assessment on Wednesday and Thursday.

Open house and Science Fair is next Tuesday, April 29th. The science fair starts at 5:30 and open house starts at 6:30. I look forward to seeing you then, and I highly encourage each family to visit the other classrooms at Stonebrae to see what each class is doing and to see the expectations and work in 3rd grade.

English Language Arts

Working on:  -le spelling, identifying author’s purpose, possessive nouns, charts, commas, and opinion writing.

Next Week’s Spelling Words: https://graceyou.com/2nd-6-2-splish-splash-animal-baths/

Math

We are currently on Topic 18 – Multiplication Concepts. Please check your child’s backpack for papers that need to be completed. Many students have been bringing home unfinished classwork to complete at home, but not many worksheets are being returned to the classroom.

Chinese
Current Textbook Lessons: Shuang Shuang 3.4
Things we did:

• Learned about various animals and pets
• Categorized animals by where they live
• Learned new songs for our Mandarin Showcase and practiced with Mrs. Murayama & Mr. Chen’s class
• Practiced new grammar patterns using our vocabulary words
• Learned how to write our dictation words in stroke order
• Practiced our dictation words, different variations of reading aloud, writing, singing songs, searching for our vocabulary words in our text.

Next Week’s Dictation Words: https://graceyou.com/dictation-week-31-2/

Lingt: http://lingtlanguage.com/takeassignment/1748239847244749/

Etcetera

Room 4 could use some:

• Reams of white copy paper
• Gallon and snack sized Ziploc bags
• Baby wipes/scrubby wipes (Kirkland brand)
• Boxes of tissues
• Band-aids
• Any new or gently used items to be given away as prizes for our raffle
• Soft plastic lids from any large tubs/containers (yogurt, butter, ice cream, hummus, sour cream, etc.)

Have a great weekend!

-Ms. You