Welcome Back!

Today was our first day back from our Easter Break. I hope you all had a great break and you all seemed nice and relaxed and rested which was excellent to see!

Today we continued our study of folktales and fairy tales by reading "How Night Came to Be" which is a folktale from Brazil talking about why we have night. I love these stories and the students really seem to be getting into them too! Tomorrow we are reading a fractured fairy tale about the three little pigs. Ask your students what a fractured fairy tale is to test their fairy tale knowledge!

We also started our new spelling for the week which works with hard and soft C sounds. This week is going to be similar to last week where students have a packet of activities working with these sounds in order to practice the sounds and help with spelling on Friday. The general words for this week are

cabin camel candy coach coast cookie
cupid cure curse curve cease celery
fence pencil circus citizen special cymbal
juicy recycle spicy

The challenge words for KK and EU are

enhance exceed incentive incorporate
intelligence precede scope decade dynamic
guarantee isolate success unique accompany
appreciate clarify crucial coincide revolution
violate adjacent

Great work with the spelling so far and keep up the great work!

We are in the last quarter of third grade so we are preparing for the greater responsibility of fourth grade. It will be a big change for many of the students so we are trying to ease into that transition. Fourth grade will mean a much greater deal of homework and more responsibility with materials. Students are likely going to have more homework than we did at the beginning of the year so that we can get ready for that workload for next year. Also, students are required to read at least 500 pages by the end of the year and conference on those pages in order to meet standard. This goal seems like a lot but it is easy to achieve if students are consistently reading and are working well in class.

This week we will be finishing our book club books and starting book reports on those stories which will be a great ending project to those books!

Keep up the great work and make sure you bring in your homework packet AND your women's suffrage dates organized if you did not finish in class! See you tomorrow!