January 13-17

Welcome to a New Year!! I hope you were able to find some much needed time to relax and unwind through the holidays. We are officially now in the 2nd half of the school year!

Here are some upcoming reminders:
Mon., Jan. 17--Read to Feed--start reading today and log all of your minutes
Thurs., Jan. 16- Field Trip to the School of Economics
Fri., Jan. 17-- School Spelling Bee-Hailey Barth and McKenna Maroon will be representing our class. Good luck to both of them!
Fri., Jan. 17-- PTO sponsored BINGO night
Mon., Jan. 20-- NO SCHOOL- MLK Jr. Day
Thurs., Feb. 6-- 3rd Grade International Festival and Taste Fest
Tues., Feb. 11-- Field Trip to the Kansas City Symphony
Valentine's Day Party
Wed., Feb 12 and Thurs., Feb. 13-- Student Led Conferences
Thurs. Feb. 12-Mon., Feb. 17-- NO SCHOOL- President's Weekend

School of Economics Field Trip- We will continue to prepare for our field trip by completing activities within our "shop" groups. The field trip is on Thursday. We will need some extra time to get there in the morning in order to arrive on time. Therefore, it is very important that ALL students are at school on Thursday before the 8:50 bell rings. The buses will need to be pulling away from the school at about that time. So please have your child here on time (or a few minutes early) on Thursday.

Hot dogs will be provided as a lunch that day, along with a few other snacks that the students will get to purchase from the different "shops."  If your child does not eat hot dogs, please feel free to send them with a sack lunch. We are looking forward to a very fun and educational day.  Thanks to the 9 parents from our class that are helping to chaperone this trip!  :)

Math- We have started learning about fractions and will complete Topic 9 with a test on Friday.

Spelling/Vocabulary- Students will receive a new spelling/ vocabulary list this week. The final test will be on Jan. 24. The vocabulary words are related to geography and mapping. Here is the link to Spelling City to practice the words:  https://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=16179253&x=abb8c

Social Studies- We are beginning to prepare for our International Festival. Students will be learning about geography through their research. They will also practice using various mapping skills, knowing the difference betweeen types of maps and globes, as well as learning the names of the continents and oceans.

Reading/ Writing- Students will begin to research the country of your family's ancestry. They will organize their research into topics and practice notetaking using books and the internet as resources.

Have a wonderful week!!