I hope everyone enjoyed the beautiful weekend!

This week in literacy, we are starting our last unit called Take a Stand. We will be talking about social issues. We will start by talking about social issues in the lives of third graders and what social issues we might read in books. We will be reading a lot of books with social issues in them such as bullies, racism, compassion, and overcoming adversity, just to name a few. I will also be working on F & P testing.

In writing, we are writing our perfect copies of our fractured fairy tales. The students have a choice of typing or writing their story.

This week, we are doing the end of the year Words Their Way testing and our high frequency word test so there is no Friday spelling test or high frequency words.

In math, we are finishing up our unit on area and perimeter. We will review on Wednesday and test on Friday.

Remember we have our field trip on Thursday. If you haven't sent a dollar, please do so ASAP. Also, it might help if your child brings a cold lunch on that day so your child has more time to eat since we are squeezing in between first grade and third grade lunches.

Tuesday, May 9 is the last day that we will be able to check out books. Please make sure all library books are back by next week.