Dr. Suess Week

Monday-no dress up day listed.  School uniform.

Tuesday-no dress up day listed.  School uniform.

Wednesday-  Everyone wears either RED or BLUE or anything patriotic.  Uniform not required.

Thursday-no dress up day listed.  School uniform.

Friday-uniform not required, wear crazy socks or mixed colors of socks.

February 24, 2020

February 24, 2020

Dear Family,

          Our story this week is Ecosystem Invaders. We are really enjoying this unit on animals. I have a room full of zoologists! We will learn about roots of words ast (star), graph (write), log (word or study), and scop (see).

          In math, we are learning how to estimate and find the area of a triangle; finding the sum of 3 addends; dividing by 2 and 5; and working backwards to solve a problem. I love Saxon math and am amazed at what our children have learned.

          In social studies, we will continue our work with Liberty’s Legacy. We will also talk about imports and exports for our great state of Alabama.

          I’m sure you’ve noticed we are writing our spelling words in cursive after we print them. Help your child remember to dot the i’s and cross the t’s.

          Next week is Read Across America Week. Look out for information posted on social media. Tuesday, March 3 we will wear The Cat in the Hat hats. Wednesday, March 4 we will wear patriotic, red, or blue clothes. Friday, March 6 is crazy socks day! Fun fun fun!

          Teaching and Loving Yours, Miss Suzann

February 19, 2020

February 19, 2020

Dear Family,

          I cannot begin to tell you how proud I am of our class! Yesterday’s field trip was wonderful. We had so many adults comment on our behavior. Thank you to Mindy Mogren, Gina Nixon, and Becky McPherson for driving us! We won two magnolia trees our city horticulture department will come help us plant on our campus. The tree our children brought home is a peppermint crepe myrtle. Keep it outside in water if you don’t have time to plant it yet. I’d start it out in a pot then transfer it to your yard next spring.

          Our story is Amazing Animals and we love it. We are learning about the suffixes -ness and -er. Content words (words having to do with a certain subject) and base words are also in our skills for the week. We are reviewing subject (what or who the sentence is about) and predicate (what the subject does).

          In math, we are learning to multiply by 0 and 5; commutative property (5x2 and 2x5 are the same as well as 3+4 and 4+3); measuring with feet, yards, meters; number of inches in a foot and yard, centimeters in a meter; making and drawing arrays (a design that depicts a multiplication fact… 3x2 would be shown with 3 rows of 2).

          In social studies, we are learning about producers and consumers. We start our Liberty’s Legacy books this week, too!

          Looking ahead, the first week in March we will celebrate Dr. Suess’ birthday. Tuesday, March 3, we will wear Cat in the Hat hats if you want to buy one or make one. March 4, Wednesday, we wear patriotic clothes or red or blue. Friday, March 6, we wear crazy socks.

Loving and Teaching Yours, Miss Suzann

Arbor Day Field Trip February 18, 2020

Presidents’ Day, Monday, February 17: NO SCHOOL

Field Trip Tuesday, Tuesday, February 18: We are going to the Arbor Day celebration downtown at the farmer’s market. We will wear uniforms. Check the weather and add outer wear accordingly. There is a cover overhead but it’s outside. We will leave school at 9:20. Gina Nixon, Mindy Mogren, and Becky McPherson are driving us. The program starts at 10:00 and you all are welcome to attend. We will go to Burger King afterwards to eat and play. Students will need money to purchase their own lunch. We are not preordering. We should be back at school around 12:00 or 12:30.

February 10, 2020

February 10, 2020

Dear Family,

          FIELD TRIP TOMORROW! Becky McPherson is driving us to the community center. We will leave at 9: 10. You are invited to attend the Liberty’s Legacy kickoff celebration at 9:30am. It will last about an hour then we will return to school for our normal lunch, etc. Wear school uniforms. You are welcome to come get your child from the program if you’re traveling to the LSC basketball game.

          Our story is Albert Einstein and the Mighty Ants. Our suffixes are -ion, -tion, -sion, and -al. I was so pleased with our spelling grades last week! Some of those words were HARD. We will also learn more about capitalization and commas.

          In math, we will learn how to find the square root of a perfect square (the answers to 1x1, 2x2, 3x3, etc.); area of a square; adding money using a decimal; reading temperature on the Celsius scale (Wait until you see our temperature chart we’ve been working on since January! We are great scientists and mathematicians!); and identifying the number of days in months and a year. Continue to practice addition and subtraction facts as well as multiplication.

          In social studies, we will begin learning about population of geographical areas and reasons it varies through history. And of course, we will focus on fun lessons provided by Liberty’s Legacy (which is correlated to Alabama standards).

          Friday we will celebrate Valentine’s Day…twice! Jenni Brooks is bringing lunch for us so we will not be going to the lunchroom. Then at 1:20, we are partying again! Gina Nixon and Jenni are our hearts for planning this!

          Looking ahead! Put these field trip dates on your calendar:

February 18: Arbor Day celebration downtown; lunch at Burger King; Mindy Mogren, Gina Nixon, and Becky McPherson are driving us. We will read our poem aloud. I’d rather you spend time memorizing math facts than our poem.

March 20: Farm Day behind Eufaula Elementary School. We will all need a lunch from home. You are welcome to come spend the morning with us 9:00-11:30. We will rotate stations to learn about poultry, row crops, fruits & vegetables, animals, equipment, and fisheries. Thank you, Allie Logan with the Barbour County Extension service. Transportation TBD.

April 15: Liberty’s Legacy Celebration at the city auditorium. The program is 12:30-1:30 and you are invited to attend. Transportation TBD.

Teaching and Loving Yours,

Miss Suzann

February 3, 2020

February 3, 2020

Dear Family,

            Our story this week is A Saguaro’s Story. We will learn about the suffixes      -ful, -less, -able, and -ity. We will also review abbreviations. Every morning, we have a Daily Language Review. I am pleased at our growth. Dialogue is tricky… we forget quotation marks and commas.

            In math, we will learn ordinal numbers (first, fifteenth, etc.); reading and writing money amounts to $1,000; writing checks; counting out coins; subtracting 7, 8, and 9; drawing a picture or table to simplify a problem; and predict by collecting data. CONTINUE WORKING ON MULTIPLICATION FACTS!

            In social studies we are talking about ways our environment is affected by humans. We will begin our work with Liberty’s Legacy this month! This is a fantastic program. We will learn about citizenship and our country. The kickoff for all local third graders is Tuesday, February 11, at 9:30 at the community center. Becky McPherson is driving us over. We should be back on campus before 11:00. April 15 we will attend our celebration at the city auditorium. I need each child’s t-shirt size ASAP. You may text me or send a note. Be sure to indicate youth or adult sizes.

            We wrote our spelling words in cursive on our test! Some of us enjoyed this thoroughly…. Some did not! Bless! I graded the printed manuscript version.

            February 18 we will travel to our farmer’s market for the Arbor Day celebration. We need to memorize the poem “Trees are the Kindest Things I Know” located in your child’s binder. They will say this with me as I am the tree annually at this event! Thank you to those volunteering to drive. We will have lunch at Burger King. No preordering…they may order what they like. Details coming home soon about this trip.

            On-line Book Club orders are due Monday, February 10.

            Flu is making a comeback in our room. We are continuing to wipe down desks. I spray every afternoon and morning. Remind your baby we need to cough and/or sneeze down into our shirts!

            Teaching and Loving Yours, Miss Suzann