It's Been Awhile.......

We have been very busy learning & having fun in Room 203! We've been preparing for our ISAT test that we just finished! We are happy that it's over & we know we did GREAT! Sorry we have posted in a long time. We will try to write our newsletter every Friday from now on!

Time to fill you in on things we've been learning about:

In Music, we are working on "Poetry In Motion". We just performed last night for our families. Our class learned the poem Gregory Griggs. Mrs. Kesler taught us how to play the rhythm of the poem on instruments. We each had different parts: first to say the poem (Gregory Griggs, East/West, We love his wigs).

In Math we are working on multiplication. We are taking timed quizzes on our facts. We just learned how to do double and triple digit multiplication! We are working hard to get ready for 4th grade. Every Tuesday afternoon we had flex math groups. This is when we go to another classroom to learn something new about math. Topics we learned about so far have been: area, fractions, perimeter, shapes, multiplication, 3D shapes, and measurement. In our classroom we've learned a lot, too. We made fraction families (pictures of our families and fractions that described them) and learned a song about lines, rays, and angles. We made 3D shapes using marshmallows & toothpicks. We counted the number of edges, faces, and vertices. To learn about capacity (how much liquid fits into a container) we made the Gallon Man. We've been busy with Math!

In Art we are selling our artwork to raise money for the school. The Art Fair will be on Thursday, April 22nd. Students AND parents can donate their artwork to be sold! PARENTS: Please think about creating a piece of artwork to sell at the art fair. In Art, we studied about Walt Disney. We practiced drawing Mickey Mouse. It was easy when Ms. Dougal taught us step-by-step how to draw him. We have also been learning about Abstracts, which are art pieces that have pictures that are not real (shapes/lines) and you can't really tell what it is (you're not supposed to know).

In Writer's Workshop we have been working on writing Essays! We organize our thoughts using boxes & bullets. Each bullet becomes its own paragraph with lots of details. We have written essays on: our favorite holiday, something that's important to us, our best friend, our favorite animal, and our favorite season. Each essay has 5 paragraphs. We are also remembering to indent each paragraph, and to capitalize the beginning of each sentence.

In P.E. we are doing Fitness Week. We are practicing kicking balls. We practice running from one side of the gym to the other.

In Science we have been learning about the Human Body. The systems of the human body are: muscular, circulatory, skeletal, digestive, nervous, and respiratory system. Some of the important words we've learned about: lungs, heart, skeleton, skull, ribcage, esophagus, small intestine, large intestine, stomach, brain, spinal cord, and nerves. We will be finishing the Human Body Theme today & moving on to our Water Theme next week!

Don't forget.....Spring Break is coming up! March 26th is our last day of school before Spring Break.