We have officially entered the last month of school and as we approach summer the word bittersweet has come up in our class. We are all excited for summer break, but not looking forward to saying goodbye! Our last month will be jam packed as we finish science projects, math units and write stories. Oh, and raise $3000 for clean water! Our wonderful students have already raised $603, and have been working hard to advertise the fundraisers we are holding next Friday. This week students went to each class in the school to share information with students and encourage them to come to our fundraising sale next week. Just a reminder for everyone: On Friday June 8 from 11:15-12:30 we will be selling baking, lemonade, popcorn, used toys and books and student artwork on the compound. Our students will also be participating in a water walk in the morning of June 8. Here is some more information about the water walk and the pledge sheet that came home this week: Each student will be walking around the soccer field, carrying jug of water. If you (or family members or neighbors or your independently wealthy dog) would like to sponsor your child, please complete the pledge sheet. Pledges can be made as a flat amount or per lap the student walks. You may send in a cash donation, or you may donate directly to our campaign page online at: https://my.charitywater.org/cranston-kids/operation-cranston-clean-water We started learning about fractions this week. In grade three students need to know that fractions are part of a whole, be able to identify them and compare them. Today we started a fraction project that involves pizza! We also worked on problem solving this week and we specifically looked at problems that require reasoning and logic. I was very impressed at how well everyone did! In literacy we continued to look at different parts of narrative writing. This week we learned about setting and plot. I have loved seeing how creative everyone is with their ideas to make these different aspects interesting and engaging for the reader. We continue to work on the book Fantastic Mr. Fox for our literature circles. This week we were summarizing, illustrating and predicting. Students are also learning to use dictionaries to look up new words they come across while reading. Our novel study of Wonder continues, and we are almost at the end! This book has been bringing up great conversation about friendship, kindness and appreciating people's differences. We had a very fun week with our Science units! Students worked super hard on building the bridges they designed last week. It was awesome to see all of the collaboration and perseverance from students as they helped each other trouble shoot and solve problems that came up as they built. On Thursday we tested our bridges and all of them were able to span our gap of 30 cm! We gave each builder two stars (things they did well) and a wish for something they could improve to make their bridge better. On top of all that excitement, our butterflies were ready to enter the wild. We released them on Wednesday afternoon and it was very fun to see them spread their wings and fly away. There are some pictures of our bridges and our very brave students at the bottom of the blog! Upcoming Important Dates: June 6 Fun Lunch June 7 Seussical Jr. Performance at DGS June 8 Water Walk & Fundraiser June 20 Champions Field Trip June 25 Sports Day June 26 Club Tuesday June 27 Last Day & Report Cards I hope everyone has a great weekend, and hopefully the sun will come out soon! Ms.Brett Comments are closed.
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