Week 8

2009 – 2010 Week 8

We have celebrated three birthdays recently: Jasmine, Nicholas, and mine. The three of us had ice-creams on Thursday to celebrate.

In a weeks time we have mid-term exams; on Monday 2^nd and Tuesday 3^rd November. I will email you study guides for each subject but the main thing to remember is to just read the questions carefully and think about what you are being asked. Don’t stay up late the night before each exam and just relax between each exam. I am sure you will all do well.

This week I will send home all the workbooks from this quarter but remember to just focus on the study guide and don’t worry about trying to review everything in your workbooks.

Please will you look through your workbooks and select three pages from each subject to bring back to school to put into our time capsule. These pages will be part of your portfolio for the year.

I took photographs of the Endangered animal project and here are a couple of well planned and thought-out posters.

Ricky used his space in a creative way by adding a door in the middle.

Alica used her space really well and was very creative in her use of color and labels.

In Math this week we will be completing the chapter on addition and subtraction. You are all doing so well on this section.

In Science we will be completing the chapter on ecosystems by looking at Water Ecosystems and reviewing vocabulary from the chapter. We will also be looking at the main rainforests and deserts in the world.

In Western Social Studies we will be looking at laws and how the government uses trial by jury to make sure that laws are obeyed.

In English we will read a story about how animals talk and start looking at the Main Idea and Details; in phonics we learn the sounds ou,ow, oy, and oi; and our grammar focus is Abbreviations.

We have continued reading the African folk tale, Kabuka and the Magic Calabash. Kabuka has now gone down a long dark tunnel and into a cave where he found the key that the Great Milimo told him to find. Don’t forget to get regular updates on Kabuka’s adventure from your children.

We have had a lot of UNICEF projects recently and I would like to thank you all for participating so enthusiastically in the Walk-a-thon, Raise your voice, and the coin collection. We have two more events left, the Carnival and the closing ceremony on Tuesday 3^rd November after our mid-term exams.

Don’t forget, this week is the UNICEF Carnival on Wednesday. Thank you to all the parents who have been involved in organizing our booth and volunteering to be there on Wednesday to help out. I am looking forward to seeing your costumes 3B … I have some prizes for the most creative ideas!

See you on Monday, 3b!

Mrs.DB