Well y’all, the last week of school has come!!!  I am super excited for summer break, but sad to say goodbye to everyone in our class.  IT has been a fabulous year!  You and your children have been amazing!  They have all grown so much and are SO ready for 4th grade!  Thank you, thank you for all your hard work in third grade this year!!!

Here is some important info to make note of for the week:

**I will be sending home Art Books with your children this week.  Please keep an eye out for them.  They are a book that is neatly bound with all their art projects for the year in order.  It is such a special thing for them to show you!! 🙂

*Monday, May 22nd- Dress Rehearsal for the play in the Q1 gym at 2:00 (ALL costumes and props need to be here on today please.)

*Tuesday, May 23rd- All May poems and May Great Brain Report turned in by today.  I have to lock my grades TODAY!
*Wednesday, May 24th-Performance of the play in the Q1 gym at 2:00

*Thursday, May 25th- FIELD DAY in the morning (Wear our turquoise tie dyed t-shirts this day.) and the Elementary Talent Show in the afternoon.  This is a FREE dress down day and a short day with 1:00 dismissal.

Friday, May 26th- LAST DAY OF SCHOOL–FREE dress down day with early dismissal at 1:00.  Please send your children to school on this day.  We will have a “Cast Party” where we will watch the recording of our performance with snacks.  We will also do awards and lots more exciting things as a class.

I hope everyone has a SUPER SUMMER break!! 🙂

Well, it’s officially nearing the end of the year.  There are 10 days of school left and we aren’t doing homework anymore.  We are all ready for a break!!!  Please make sure you are still reading 20 minutes EVERY night for the rest of the year.  This is a super important habit that your children need to continue through the entire summer so they do not regress.

There are some super important dates to mention. Mark your calendars! Here is the schedule for the rest of the year:
-Monday, May 15th-Math SAGE Test #1 @ 8:35

**Tuesday, May 16th- SUMMER BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION**  Everyone with a summer birthday will have a chance to be celebrated!!!

-Wednesday, May 17th-Math SAGE Test #2 @8:35

-Thursday, May 18th- Paint Backdrops for play (Help needed!!)  Also, if anyone has or knows of any big pieces of cardboard, we would love to take it off your hands.  Refrigerator boxes work really well!

-Monday, May 22nd-Dress Rehearsal @1:30 in Q1 gym **ALL costumes here at school by this day!**

-Wednesday, May 24th @2:00 in Q1 gym-Play Performance

-Thursday, May 25th- Field Day and Talent Show (Please sign up if interested in sharing talents on this day.)

-Friday, May 26th- LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!  I really want ALL students here at school on this day.  There are lots of fun things we will do, and I want a chance to say goodbye to everyone before summer break!

Announcements:
WE only have 15 days left of school and so much fun stuff to do! This year has flown by and I’m feeling sad…the end is near.

**Please make sure to read the post from a few weeks ago about our class play. I listed all the play parts and the dates of the Dress Rehearsal and the actual Play performance. The date of the Dress Rehearsal is Monday, May 22nd @ 1:30 in the Q1 gym. The date of the actual play performance is Wednesday, May 24th at 2:00 in the Q1 gym. Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends are welcome to attend! We are so excited to perform.  PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE GETTING COSTUMES TOGETHER FOR YOUR CHILDREN.**

**LA SAGE TESTING THIS WEEK:  Tuesday, May 9th @ 10:45 & Thursday, May 11th @ 12:40**

Reading
Of course, reading is the most important part of our homework! All of us should be reading 20 minutes a night, 5 nights a week. Please print off the Sort and Reading Log to record how many minutes your child read each night. Please sign and return it on Friday.

Math-We will be finishing up  equations this week and reviewing for SAGE.  The students have 4 assignments on frontrowed.com and the class code is waddeg.
Monday- Front Row Ed Assignment “Parentheses”
Tuesday-Front Row Ed Assignment “Multiplication as Comparison”
Wednesday-Front Row Ed Assignment “Two Step Word Problems”
Thursday-Front Row Ed Assignment “Multiplication Properties”
Friday-Homework due and Sort and Reading Log turned in.

**WE ARE DONE WITH SPELLING FOR THE YEAR!!! YAY! WE WILL BE REVIEWING LANGUAGE ARTS, GRAMMAR, AND VOCABULARY HERE AT SCHOOL, NOT SPELLING PATTERNS!!**

Announcements:  Please make sure to read the post from last week about our class play.  I listed all the play parts and the dates of the Dress Rehearsal and the actual Play performance.  Please start looking into finding a costume for your child.

Thanks for all the parents, grandparents and volunteers that came on Friday to the Planetarium field trip.  We had such a great time.  I will post the field trip pictures in the next few days on the blog.

Reading
Of course, reading is the most important part of our homework! All of us should be reading 20 minutes a night, 5 nights a week. Please print off the Sort and Reading Log to record how many minutes your child read each night. Please sign and return it on Friday.

Math-We will be working on elapsed time for the next two weeks until spring break.
Monday-bar-graph-hmwk1
Tuesday-bar-graph hmwk2
Wednesday- pictograph 1
Thursday-pictograph 2
Friday-Homework due and Sort and Reading Log turned in.

SpellingThis week the students will be reviewing sounds and introducing the r-controlled vowel /ar/.
Please print off this sort: 2-24 Sheet1
Monday-Indicated Sort
Tuesday-ABC Sort
Wednesday-Sort by the number of letters in each word
Thursday-Speed Sort
The students will use this sort to practice the indicated patterns. Quest has asked us to have the students type their spelling word sort each night, but I would like to keep homework quick and simple. Just have your children sort the words. They do not need to type or write the sort.