Third and Fourth Grade Classroom News: Feb. 16-19
This will be a very busy week! On Wednesday evening the church is having a 5:45 p.m. Soup Supper and a 7:00 p.m. Ash Wednesday Service. Everyone is invited!
Our School Open House on Thursday evening will be from 5:30-7:00 p.m. Another Open House will take place this Saturday from 10:00 a.m. -12:00 noon, immediately followed by the Chili Cook-off. Come and taste Mrs. Chrzan's "Tantalizing Heart Healthy Chili" along with other entries. Please plan on stopping by for either the Thurs. or Sat. Open House to see the classroom displays and pick up your child's re-enrollment packet.
Other Upcoming Events:
- Grades 3-6 field trip Feb. 23 to the Anaheim Science Center
- Restaurant Night to Panda Express from 5-8 p.m. on Feb. 23 (see school newsletter for more details)
- Lutheran Schools Week launched on Sunday, March 7, with all school children singing at the Sunday 8:30 a.m. service
- School Spelling Bee on Tuesday, March 9
- Special Person's Day on Wednesday, March 10
- School Jog-a-thon on Friday, March 12
Curriculum Emphasis:
Phonics 3: finishing our chapter on suffixes
Reading 3: story: "The Cobbler's Song"
Reading 4: completing the novel The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleishman
Math 3: reading the temperature on a Celsius scale, finding a fractional part of a set, identifying compass directions on a map, addition with three addends, multiplication timed tests
Math 4: continuing division with three-digit answers; ounces, pounds and tons; grams and kilograms; presenting number information in a table; multiplication timed tests
Language: punctuation
Social Studies: Navajo Indians; discussing the Olympics and the 2010 census
Science: astronomy
Homework 3/4:
Tuesday~ Study Spelling words
Wednesday~ Social Studies Study Guide #20; remember offering boxes for Giving Gardens on Wednesday if you forgot last week
Thursday~ study memory verses
Spelling 3 list (adding -ed and –ing; five challenge words added for a total of 20 words): making, biting, diving, hiking, skated, prized, shaking, skating, hiding, shining, thinking, entered, opened, passing, safekeeping, academic, allegiance, altitude, attitude, balcony
Spelling 4 list: (25 words): dangerous, donors, either, entered, entrance, feather, fingerprints, neither, ownership, favorite, rather, honorable, humorous, motorist, visitor, capture, nature, natural, pasture, picture, picturesque, hippopotamus, irrelevant, lethargic, librarian
Memory Verses:
- Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:57
- I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. Galatians 2:20