Week 12

Jolene celebrated her birthday this week. Happy Birthday Jolene! I hope you had a great day.

I have sent home the latest Science and Social Studies workbooks, as well as the 5 theme 2 English workbooks. Please will you sign them and return them to me by Wednesday. Thank you.

Jason, JC, Nick, and Yao please will you remember to bring in 10 pieces of work to go into the Time Capsule.

JC and Jonathan please will you bring in your transfer forms on Monday.

Don’t forget to make a Thanksgiving card for your secret buddy. Try to write a sentence telling them why you are thankful for them. Don’t sign your name; just write “from your secret buddy”. If you can, please type it on your computer so that your buddy does not recognize your handwriting.

What has been happening to Kabuka? Remember, Kabuka stole the calabash back from Zaka but then was tricked by Tabisa (who was under Zaka’s curse) and lost it again. Zaka was then hit by a tree branch which was struck by lightening and Kabuka managed to get the calabash back again. When we left Kabuka he was watching a pride of lion hunting a giraffe, and the baboons were catching up with him …….. that’s when he thought up a plan!! We will find out next time what happens next!

Everyone was happy to receive their book orders from Scholastic this week.

On Friday Ricky, JC, and Nicole took part in the Field Day long jump competition. Well done to you all for doing your best.

We have begun rehearsals for our Christmas concert. The students are doing really well learning all the songs and learning our 3B dance to the UNICEF song “Hand in Hand”. Hand in Hand is a song composed by Costas CACOYANNIS and written by Pambos Kouzalis. It was performed last year at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. The youtube link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxmjKqkG2dE

This next week we will be having a number of tests:

Monday – Theme 2 English

The test will be similar to the mid term test with the following parts:

• Comprehension – opinion/fact; main idea/details; reference sources; synonyms/antonyms
• Phonics – compound words; tch, ch, sh, wh; oi, oy; ou, ow; blends scr, str, spr
• Grammar – compound sentences, combining sentences, proper and common nouns, singular and plural nouns, and abbreviations (remember that US states are capital letters e.g.: California = CA)
• Vocabulary – please review the following words carefully. Shabby, famine, investigate, momentum, alert, inquisitive, expert, ingredients, gaze, various confess, suspect, dominant, and suspicious.
• You will also need to write a paragraph of between 5 to 10 sentences.

After the test we will begin Theme Three of Story Town.

On Tuesday is the Science test. Use B70 – 71 in your text book to review.

After the test we will begin Unit C.

On Wednesday is the Chapter 3 Social studies test.

Please review the following pages in your workbook:

• The activity page on Law and Order. Make sure you know some of the rules or laws that should be obeyed.
• Review the different ways that you can resolve a conflict.
• Be able to answer questions about a map like the page in your work book headed “Identify State Capitals and Borders”
• Review the True and False questions for Lesson 2 and 3.
• Review carefully the notes be wrote for Lesson 3.

We will begin Chapter 4 on Monday 30 November.

In Math next week we will be continuing learning about the Metric System and will learn about capacity (milliliters and liters), weight (grams and kilograms), and temperature (degrees Celsius). There will be a Chapter 4 test on Monday 30 November.

Chapter 5 and 6 Math deals with multiplication. Memorizing the multiplication tables is essential to completing these chapters successfully and therefore we have started having multiplication tables quizzes as often as possible. To be able to fit these quizzes into our program we will have them at 8am on a Monday and Tuesday and then at other times during our daily schedule. Please can you make sure that you are early on Monday and Tuesday so that you don’t miss out.

I hope you all have a great weekend. See you on Monday, 3b!

Mrs.DB

Week 11

We have had another busy week and I would like to congratulate everyone on participating so well in the Field Day events.

Even though the elementary fun games were canceled, I hope you all enjoyed our games on the new basketball court.

Even I got to compete in the fun teacher's race. My team had to wear purple hair. It was lots of fun.

Happy Birthday Wesley!

We had a delicious pizza party on Thursday. We won this party by raising the 2^nd greatest amount at the carnival. Thanks again to all the parents who worked so hard to organize our booth.

Here's a summary of work we did this week:

Monday 9th November	Tuesday 10th November
Math – Measurement: Customary units of capacity. English – Read and discussed Stone Soup. WSS – Conflict Resolution	Math – Measurement: Customary units of capacity. English – Stone Soup comprehension and Main idea and detail. Science – Read and discussed Food Chains
Wednesday 11th November Marching practice English – Grammar – Singular and Plural Nouns. WSS - Read and took notes about Community Government Services	Thursday 12th November Field Day English – Reviewed Singular and Plural Nouns, reference sources, and guide words in the dictionary.
Friday 13th November Math - Measurement: Customary units of weight. English – Grammar, Phonics, and Comprehension Quiz. WSS – Completed Community Government Services Science – Read about Food Webs and made Food Chains in Groups.

“We reviewed which animals are carnivores, omnivores, or herbivores.”

Our crab walked out of his old shell a week ago and was very happy in his new shell. Unfortunately, the crab decided the tank was too small for him and he crawled out. Now he is no-where to be found. I hope he is happy where ever he is.

Jolene’s bear enjoyed sleeping in his new hanging cave under her desk.

We have begun rehearsing for our Christmas performance and although we had a bad start, I am sure the rest will go more smoothly. We will use Home Room Hour, music class, and some PE classes for rehearsal. Nearer the time we might need to have a few after school rehearsals. We will continue to learn our class dance and learn the songs to support the rest of the classes. Our costumes are very simple since the students need to wear their class Tshirts, blue jeans, and sneakers.

This is the plan for next week:

Math – Temperature (customary system), Estimating and measuring length and capacity (metric system).

English – “The Case of the Three Bears Breakfast”, Review Theme 2 Grammar, Phonics, and Comprehension skills.

Science – Complete food chains and webs

Western Social Studies – Review Chapter 3

Tests or Quizes over the next 2 weeks:

Tuesday 17^th

– “Stone Soup” spelling and vocabulary test

– Customary system (length, capacity, and weight) quiz (see end of blog for details of what to learn for this quiz)

– 2 and 3 times table quiz

Monday 23^rd

- WSS Ch1 L1-3 Test

Tuesday 24^th

- Science Unit B Ch 2 Test

Wednesday 25^th

- English Theme 2 Test

Monday 30^th

- Math Chapter 4 Test

Chapter 5 and 6 Math deals with multiplication. Memorizing the multiplication tables is essential to completing these chapters successfully and therefore we will be having multiplication tables quizzes every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday beginning next week (Tuesday 17^th November). To be able to fit these quizzes into our program we will have them at 8am each of these days. Please can you make sure that you are early on these days so that you don’t miss out.

I hope you all have a great holiday on Monday.

See you Tuesday,

Mrs. DB

Information to learn for Customary System Math Quiz

Name of system = Customary System
Length Abbreviations Inches = in Foot = ft Yard = yd Mile = mi Equivalency chart: I foot = 12 inches 1 yard = 3 feet or 36 inches 1 mile = 1,660 yards or 5,280 feet	Capacity Abbreviations cup = c pint = pt quart = qt gallon = gal Equivalency chart: 1 pint = 2 cups 1 quart = 2 pints or 4 cups 1 gallon = 4 quarts, 8 pints, or 16 cups
Weight Abbreviations Ounces = oz Pounds = lb Equivalency chart: 1 pound = 16 ounces

Week 10

Mid term exams are over. Well done everyone on doing such a wonderful job! You behaved so well during the exams by concentrating on your work and not talking when you were finished. Thank you for being so honest and responsible during this time.

We had the Service learning closing ceremony on Tuesday afternoon.

Thanks 3B for singing so beautifully and behaving so well on stage.

I was so proud of you all.

Well done Ricky for raising so much money for the Walk-a-thon. Thanks you to his grandparents for supporting him and helping him raise so much.

Well done to all the 3B parents for all their hard work on our carnival booth. We came 2^nd for the most money raised during that day. The pie throwing booth beat us!! All your hard work has given us the pizza party prize.

On Wednesday we spent some of the morning making desert and forest dioramas.

What a great way to end off learning about the various biomes in the world!!

On Wednesday we also had Field Day marching practice. It was really well organized by Mr. Min and the PE teachers. Again 3B you did a fantastic job; behaving well and marching like stars!

On Monday afternoon everyone tied their shirts ready for dying; then on Wednesday morning Mr. Mertz and I dyed them. It was great seeing the finished product after washing them and taking the rubber bands off on Thursday

On Wednesday afternoon 3B had their health check at the nurse’s office. Their height, weight and eyes were checked.

After the health check we had a few moments to spare before the end of the lesson and so there was time for some fun in the playground. 3B are good monkeys but our champion monkey is definitely Jolene!

We had a special visitor fly into our class on Friday; it was a friendly little bubble. It entered our door and went floating around the room before settling on Jonathan’s shirt. It is always fun to have visitors; especially happy little bubbles.

Here's a summary of work we have started this week:

Thursday 5th November	Friday 6th November
Math – Measurement: Customary units of length English – Started Theme 2 Week 4: Phonics – Consonant blends Science – An experiment looking at what happens to an egg in fresh water and salty water.	Math – Measurement: Customary units of length Science – Started Unit B Ch 2: activity about animal’s teeth.

This is the plan for next week:

Math – Estimating and measuring capacity and weight (customary system)

English – “Stone Soup”, Main idea and detail, Singular and Plural Nouns,

Science – Food chains and webs

Western Social Studies – Conflict resolution and Community Services

Other activities

– On Wednesday we have Field Day marching practice from 7:40 to 9am

– On Thursday morning we have elementary track finals (I hope some parents will be able to join us and cheer for your children)

– On Friday morning some students will be participating in long jump

– On Saturday morning we have school Field Day

I hope you all have a great weekend

See you Monday,

Mrs. DB