Goodbye:(

Thank you so much for allowing me to be your child’s teacher this year. We have had such a great year and I’m sad to see it be over already. Click on the link below for some ideas to keep your child learning this summer!
Have a great summer and enjoy your break!
Summer Learning


Last Week of School!

Important Dates

Wed       May 24th  Clean Out Desks (Please Bring Your Backpack)
Thurs    May 25th   Short Day
              Field Day 
              Wear your Blue Tie Dye Shirt
               EARLY OUT
Fri          May 26th  Short Day 
              Free Dress Down
              Last Day of 3rd Grade
              EARLY OUT



I just wanted to sincerely thank you for an amazing year! I love your kids so much and am sad to see them go. They are ready to be 4th graders though! Thank you for your kindness, help in the classroom, and support. It makes a huge difference when we have the love and support of parents. It’s been so fun to see the huge growth and milestones each student has made this year. I hope you have seen it as well.

There will not be homework this week, but please remember that nightly reading is not homework, it’s bonus time and something I hope you’ll do forever and ever!

One more week…. (of SAGE Testing)

Thank You

I want to thank you for all of the kind words, notes, and fun stuff the kids brought in for teacher appreciation. You all have been so supportive of our class and I appreciate it!


Welcome to our play performance week!! Thank you for the costumes and encouragement to help make our play a success. We could not do it without your support!


Monday: Play Performance 9:00 in the Q1 gym

Tuesday: Sage Testing
Play Performance 5:00 p.m. in the Q1 gym

Thursday: Sage Testing


There will be no more homework for the rest of the year:) Please have your child continue to read every night though.


Dress Rehearsal for Play!!

There will be a lot of things going on these next 3 weeks. Please check the blog regularly for class information! This week we will be starting our Language Arts testing as well as having our dress rehearsal for our play. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns regarding our class play. The dress rehearsal is this Thursday at 2:00. Anyone is welcome to come watch. Please send your child’s costume with them on Thursday morning. They will need to wear their uniform until 1:00 when it’s time to change into their costume!
Please remember our daytime performance is next Monday, May 15 @ 9:00 am and our evening performance is Tuesday, May 16 at 5:00. The kids need to be in the Q1 gym at 4:30 for the evening performance.


Monday: Our LAST DAY of library! Please remember your books!
Tuesday: ELA Sage Testing 9:40-10:40
Thursday: ELA Sage Testing 9:40-10:40
DRESS REHEARSAL 2:00
Parents are welcome to come in at 1:00 to help their child get ready.
(If you can’t, don’t worry)


Math:
Prodigy at least 3 days this week!

Reading:
Read 20 minutes each day and submit your reading minutes on our google classroom document. There are NO questions to answer this week!

Welcome to May!

Oh my goodness….. It’s MAY! I can’t believe we only have 20 more school days left.  It saddens me at how little time we have left together. It has been so fun to watch them grow and get ready for 4th grade. We have a BUSY few weeks so please read the blog posts entirely each week to ensure you are in the loop on everything going on!

Class Play
I hope you all read the information I posted about the class play. Our dress rehearsal is on Thursday, May 11 at 2:00. Please send your child’s costume with them that day (you are welcome to come in and help with makeup, hair, and costume at 1:00)
The play performances are Monday, May 15 at 9 am and Tuesday, May 16 at 5 pm. I haven’t heard from anyone that they aren’t going to be able to make it to the evening performance. Please let me know ASAP if you aren’t going to be able to make it so I can reassign your child’s part for that night.
Thanks!!

Sage Testing
We don’t have Sage testing this week but will continue with it next week.

Homework
Monday: Library (Remember your books)

Tuesday: Moms and Muffins

Wednesday: Moms and Muffins

Thursday: Star Wars Day!!

Friday: Early Out
School Carnival!

Reading:
Please have your child read at least 20 minutes each night this week and submit minutes in the google classroom document.
Monday: In the book you are reading, is the author’s purpose to persuade, inform, or entertain? Write a sentence about why you think the author wrote the text.
Tuesday: What is something that you can figure out in the story without the author directly telling you? (Inference) Write a sentence about it.
Wednesday: Make a connection to your life from the story and write a sentence about it. (What does this book remind you of)
Thursday: Find 5 words with our spelling pattern OA and OW. 

Math:
Prodigy is set to review everything that we have taught this year.  If you spend 15 minutes every night doing the problems, you will have all concepts reviewed by the end of the month.





Gala/Homework

Monday: Celebrate Tyler’s birthday!! (Happy Birthday on Sunday)
Gala
Have your child at the Comfort Suites at 6:00, pick up at 7:15
Students may wear best dress or their school uniform to perform at the Gala
Library (Remember your books)

Tuesday: Happy Birthday to Zander!!
Start SAGE testing 8:40-9:40

Wednesday: Sage Testing 1:50-2:50

Friday: Early Out
Dollar Dress Down Day


Reading:
Please have your child read at least 20 minutes each night this week.
Submit a one paragraph summary of what they have been reading about. (Only one paragraph required for the week) and submit in google classroom.

Math:

Prodigy is set to review everything that we have taught this year.  If you spend 15 minutes every night doing the problems, you will have all concepts reviewed by the end of the month.




Sage Testing Begins!!

It’s time to get started with our end of year SAGE testing.  I really want to make sure your children are well rested and full with a BIG, yummy breakfast on these testing dates.  Also, please make sure your children are here and are ON TIME these days!  We want them to be as successful as possible.  Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.  

Also, research shows that students are calmer and focus better when they chew peppermint gum during tests.  So, I will be giving peppermint gum to the students during each session.  If you do not want your child to have gum, please contact me and let me know.  Thanks so much for all you do!

SAGE Writing session #1: Tuesday, April 25 8:40-9:40
SAGE Writing session #2: Wednesday, April 26 1:50-2:50
SAGE Language Arts session #1: Tuesday, May 9 9:40-10:40
SAGE Language Arts session #2: Thursday, May 11 9:40-10:40
SAGE Math session #1: Tuesday, May 16 8:35-9:35
SAGE Math session #2: Thursday, May 18, 8:35-9:35


IMPORTANT!! GALA INFORMATION

Thank You to all of those who are willing to bring your kids to the Gala on Monday. I really appreciate your support with this. I’m excited to hear them sing. Remember, the students need to be at the Comfort Suites Hotel (2250 S 1200 W Ogden) by 6:15 and be picked up at 7:00. POQA will be serving PIZZA to the students that night.

POQA is also needing a couple of parent volunteers to supervise the kids from 6:00-7:00 that night. It will count as your volunteer hours plus you can eat pizza too! Let me know if you would be willing to help out with this.

Thanks again for everything!!

We Are Working Hard!

We are really working hard to prepare for SAGE testing and getting ready to be 4th graders! It is making me sad to know I won’t be with these amazing kids much longer. They have grown so much these past few months and it’s fun to watch.

April 17: Celebrate Kylee’s Birthday!! (Happy Birthday on Sunday the 16th to Kylee!!)
Library (Don’t forget your books)
April 19: STEM
April 20: Class Store (We will need a parent volunteer to run it from 2-3)


Opinion Writing
We are practicing opinion writing in preparation for our upcoming end of year testing.  Please ask your student to present their opinion to you on anything you can think of.  They need to give you a hook, with their reasons and evidence for each reason.

Donations
We are in need of glue sticks and dry erase markers!

HOMEWORK

Reading
There are nightly homework assignments up in Google Classroom.  Don’t forget that you need to read for 20 minutes every night.  That is the most important part of the homework!
This week for reading, write a summary of the book you are reading about. The summary should be a paragraph with at least 4 7up sentences. (They all know what a 7up sentence is).

Math
Prodigy is set to review everything that we have taught this year.  If you spend 15 minutes every night doing the problems, you will have all concept reviewed by the end of the month.

Spelling
This week, we are studying the ow and oa long o patterns.