Happy 4th Quarter
It’s been a while since I last posted. So, I’ll try to sum up what has been going on.

For religion we learned and discussed about the 40 days of Lent, Holy Week and Easter. We are finishing up the unit on The Body of Christ. The next unit we will cover talks about The Catholic Church.

We have been working hard with a few Reading Writing Workshop lessons. We finished our research paper. The students enjoyed this so much they asked if they could do another one. I think we’ll have time at the end of the year; I just might throw another in. We just finished up writing about descriptions. On Monday we will start reading them to the class. We are starting our last theme in the reading series on smart solutions. This is a fun theme.

Oh math is going great. I love when the kids catch onto multiplication and division. The only thing they need to do is keep reviewing facts. It seems like when they get to 4th grade they have forgotten all their facts. Whenever you’re in the car traveling, doing dishes, folding clothes, (assuming your child helps you) practice the facts. We will be starting double division shortly. This gets a little hard for some kids. I only need to introduce it, so I don’t spend a lot of time drilling them on how to do long division

In spelling we are just moving along. We are learning new sight words, homophones, homographs, different letter sounds, syllables and many other spelling skills.
In language we just finished up the unit on verbs. We have started the next unit on adjectives. Adjectives are fun because they are describing words. I try to get the kids to use as many adjectives in all their writing and even when their telling me a story.


A few short notes:

Wednesday, April 10, 3rd grade will be hosting the Liturgy. Please join us if you can.

I will be taking some time off during April to spend with my daughter and their first child, my first grandchild. I have a sub all lined up and she will do a great job with the students. I ask that you just remind your child to be respectful and kind to the sub-teacher.

May is usually time for field trips. Thursday, May 30th, 3rd and 4th grade will being going to Hayward. I am also working on our annual trip to Cable Museum. No date has been set for this yet. Third grade usually goes to UMD Planetarium, but with Ms. Sukanen teaching science I’m not sure we’ll get there. If not I will definitely include them next year.