A New Perspective

Today we started wrapping up a lot in our classroom. It's Thursday so the usual assignments are starting to wind down. This week, the students have a packet talking about the parts of speech that is due tomorrow, their spelling contract due tomorrow, and a small book that they wrote and illustrated due tomorrow. I can't wait to read the little books tomorrow as a group!

We also finished up our unit on fairy tales and folktales. It is sad to be finished with the unit but at the same time I am glad to be done with them. It will be nice to move onto a new topic. I am thinking about life in the colonies right now, but I am not sure! I guess we will find out on Monday!

This afternoon in art we did a lesson on creating a picture using a vanishing point. Students were given a packet with step-by-step instructions on how to create a picture with a vanishing point which we followed together. Next week, the students will have a chance to prove their artistic skills and show their ability to follow directions when they will create their own drawing without my help! Make me proud third graders! :)

Today your student will be coming home with a sign up sheet for snacks for next week. Our spirit award movie day is going to be next Wednesday (April 21st) in the afternoon. If you are interested in bringing snacks to share with 14 students please return the sheet with your student asap so we know what kinds of snacks are going to arrive on Wednesday. Feel free to bring snacks anytime on Wednesday, but please drop them off at the office rather than bringing them to our classroom since that is very disruptive during our lessons. The rest of our morning will be business as usual until after our afternoon recess. Next week we will be voting on the movie we will show in class. If you have a movie you would be willing to share with the class, have your student mention the title to me and we will check to make sure it is allowed at Frontier. Movies cannot have a rating of more than PG and must be child appropriate (no gore, killing, etc.).

Study for those spelling tests tomorrow and get all of your work done, for those of you who had to take things home. See you tomorrow, bright and early!