Important Dates & Reminders
Our remaining library days are: February 7, 22; March 8, 22; April 16, 30; and May 14, 29.
Please visit the link below for donating to the Ohio Wildlife Center's visit. Your donations offset the center's standard cost to visit and will help many animals undergoing rehabilitation. The Ohio Wildlife Center will be visiting us again this year on Valentine's Day to teach us about native Ohio animals, life cycles, defense mechanisms and the habitat.
Thank you!
January 29, 2013: Progress reports sent home.
January 31, 2013: Early release @ 11:05 for conferences
February 11, 2013: Ohio Wildlife Center donations due for their visit on February 14th
February 13, 2013: Early dismissal at 1:15
February 14, 2013: Ohio Wildlife Center visits for life science study (See above.)
February 18, 2013: No school in honor of Presidents' Day
March 23, 2013: Invention Convention at UAHS (more information coming in January)
March 28, 2013: End of the Third Grading Period
March 29 - April 5, 2013: Spring Break
April 8, 2013: No School: Teacher Grading Day
April 11, 2013: 3rd Grade Musical Program with Mrs. Delcamp
April 15-18, 2013: Terra Nova and InView assessments (Please try to avoid appointments on these days.)
April 16, 2013: Progress reports sent home
April 26, 2013: Kidfest
April 29, 2013: Ohio Reading Achievement Assessments (All students will take. Please try to avoid appointments on this days.)
April 30, 2013: Ohio Mathematics Achievement Assessment (All students will take. Please try to avoid appointments on this days.)
May 11, 2013: Windermere Wish Run
May 27, 2013: No School: Memorial Day
May 28, 2013: Field Days (Please contact Mr. Moore if you are able to volunteer at adammoore@uaschools.org.)
May 29, 2013: Field Days rain date
January 31, 2013: Early release @ 11:05 for conferences
February 11, 2013: Ohio Wildlife Center donations due for their visit on February 14th
February 13, 2013: Early dismissal at 1:15
February 14, 2013: Ohio Wildlife Center visits for life science study (See above.)
February 18, 2013: No school in honor of Presidents' Day
March 23, 2013: Invention Convention at UAHS (more information coming in January)
March 28, 2013: End of the Third Grading Period
March 29 - April 5, 2013: Spring Break
April 8, 2013: No School: Teacher Grading Day
April 11, 2013: 3rd Grade Musical Program with Mrs. Delcamp
April 15-18, 2013: Terra Nova and InView assessments (Please try to avoid appointments on these days.)
April 16, 2013: Progress reports sent home
April 26, 2013: Kidfest
April 29, 2013: Ohio Reading Achievement Assessments (All students will take. Please try to avoid appointments on this days.)
April 30, 2013: Ohio Mathematics Achievement Assessment (All students will take. Please try to avoid appointments on this days.)
May 11, 2013: Windermere Wish Run
May 27, 2013: No School: Memorial Day
May 28, 2013: Field Days (Please contact Mr. Moore if you are able to volunteer at adammoore@uaschools.org.)
May 29, 2013: Field Days rain date
What We Learned This Week
Word Study
- I can identify prefixes, suffixes and root words.
- I am familiar with the most common prefixes and suffixes.
- I know many words do not have a prefix or suffix.
- I know prefixes and suffixes change the meaning of a word.
- I know that spelling patterns for common prefixes may represent part of a root word.
Reading
We finished our historical fiction read aloud, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, by Rodman Philbrick, which takes place during the Civil War. We are doing final first person reflections as Homer. We will be reading a number of picture books about famous African Americans as we start researching African Americans. We started with Henry's Freedom Box, written by Ellen Levine and beautifully illustrated by Kadir Nelson, the true story of an escaped slave.
- I can make text to self connections.
- I can think beyond the text (emotions, inference).
- I can summarize my reading with characters, setting, and plot (beginning, middle, end).
- I can make text to self connections.
- I can think beyond the text (emotions, inference).
- I can summarize my reading with characters, setting, and plot (beginning, middle, end).
Writing
Students are taking notes on their African American research subjects. Our focus will be on courage and sacrifice to deepen our understanding beyond the customary. We began this research project by listing "all the famous people you can think of in two minutes." I then took our comprehensive class list and sorted by US and foreign citizenship, ethnicity, gender and occupation. You can click on the following charts to see how our "famous people" list sorted. Our clear slant is towards US, male, white entertainers. This supplies us with much support to develop our research skills by studying the contributions of African Americans (and women in March during Women's History Month).
Citizenship
Ethnicity
Gender
Occupation
- I can identify noteworthy notes.
- I can rewrite notes in my own words.
Math
I introduced fractions this week.
- I can name the numerator, denominator, and whole in a fraction.
- I can define the numerator, denominator, and whole in a fraction.
- I can can count by fractions with different denominators.
- I can identify whole numbers from fractions when the numerator is a multiple of the denominator.
- I can solve fraction story problems.
If you are looking for a way to support your student, visit the math links under favorites on the right side of the blog.
Science
We will begin our Invention Convention process soon. You can help your student by identifying common problems and simple solutions.
If you are looking for a way to support your student, visit the math links under favorites on the right side of the blog.
We will begin our Invention Convention process soon. You can help your student by identifying common problems and simple solutions.
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