April 5 O&A to Fernhill Wetlands 10:30-1:30 - Chaperones Needed
April 7 Yearbook Covers Due
April 7 All School Meeting and "Facial Hair" Spirit Day (Plovers will present at 9:45)
April 7 Art Show and Fundraiser 5-7pm Central School
April 10 Library Visit
April 18 Scholastic Reading Club Orders Due
April 19 O&A to Oregon Zoo
April 20 Student-Led Conferences After School 4pm-7pm
April 21 Student-Led Conferences (No School)
Important Calendar Note - Early O&A Departure on Wednesday, May 3rd 8:15am
Level 2 will travel to Haystack Rock (Oregon Coast) on 5/3/17. To maximize our time at the coast, we will need to leave FGCS by 8:30am! Please plan to drop your Plover off at 8:15am on this day.
Homework Due by April 6th
1. Read for at least 20 minutes every night.
2. Complete at least 30 minutes of math practice.
3. Complete at least 20 minutes of typing practice on Typing.com
4. Optional: Compete Opinion Paragraph of the Week assignment on Google Classroom.
Prompt: What time should children go to bed on school nights? Support your opinion.
Upcoming Out and Abouts
This Wednesday, we will visit Fernhill Wetlands to compare a wetland ecosystem to the forest ecosystem we saw at Tillamook. Students might even catch a glimpse of one of their research animals: great blue heron, bald eagle, American beaver, little brown bat, mayfly or Oregon spotted frog! Next week, we will help with some work in the Sunflower Garden.
Volunteer Opportunities
Library Chaperones - 2-3 chaperones needed for our next library trip (4/10)
Out & About Chaperones:
- Wednesday, April 5th - Fernhill Wetlands
- Wednesday, April 19th - Oregon Zoo
- Wednesday, April 26th - Jackson Bottom Wetlands
Scholastic Reading Clubs
Class Code: L79X9
Order Due Date: 4/18/17 by 9pm
You can view this month's selections and submit your order online at scholastic.com/readingclub using our class activation code: L79X9. When you place your order online, you'll help earn FREE books for our class! The books typically arrive about 10 days after I submit the class orders.
Math Notes
3rd grade math parent info:
Data and Graphs Family Letter
This week in 3rd Grade Math, students will begin an inquiry project about data collection and representation. Students will spend a portion of their math time every day measuring and recording data about their growth creature! We will also continue working on multiplication and division.
At home, look for Data in the Media with your third grader! This is also a great connection to our current focus on nonfiction texts in reading and writing! Look for examples of graphs in newspapers and magazines. Talk with your child about what these graphs represent. What do these graphs communicate? Discuss what choices the graph maker made and why the graph maker might have made these choices. What other choices might you make if you were creating a graph that represented these data?
Current 4th grade math topics:
- FRACTIONS! Our fraction unit was developed with Dr. Gowri Meda. For information about how we approach instruction during this unit, or to get information about how to review concepts at home with your child, visit Dr. Meda's website of math videos: Math Precisely.
- NOTE: All 4th grade math students should be practicing their multiples DAILY!
Art Announcements from Stephanie
Painting Melodies Art Show/Concert - April 7th 5-7pm at the district office.
The 8th grade ConnectED team has been working super hard to pull this together. They have booked 3 local bands, we will have over 100 pieces of artwork on display and a cake decorating competition. If you would like to donate art to the silent auction, please fill out the flyer and have artwork to us no later then April 1st.
Cake Decorating at Painting Melodies - The art show/concert has a sweet tooth. Students, parents and community members can participate in the cake decorating competition at the art show. Please fill out the cake art show flyer and turn it into the art room. You must have your finished cakes to the art show by 4 pm on April 7th.
Yearbook Cover Contest - It's that time of year already: time to participate in the yearbook cover contest! Submissions due April 7th. Click here for more info!
Communication
Please contact me with any questions or concerns. Parents and students can e-mail me at [email protected]. You can also leave a voice message on the class phone or set up a time to meet with me before/after school.