Clock change-I hope everyone remembered to “Spring Forward” and move your clocks ahead one hour! Hopefully, this is the last time we have to do this!
Snow day- I hope you all enjoyed your snow day! I was sick and enjoyed the time for my body to recover! I’m feeling much better now!
Native American Fair- Wow! The Native American and Alternative Energy Fair was amazing! Everyone did an awesome job! I’m very proud of all of you! I got many compliments from parents, teachers, the principal and the superintendent. Thank you to everyone who was able to make it. I’m so happy that the superintendent took the time to come and actually interacted with our students and he said that he was very impressed that students were very knowledgeable about their topics. Here is a link to the pictures, if you have pictures to share feel free to add them to the album!
Academics –
ELA -This week we will take our spelling test Monday for last week’s words and get our new spelling words. This week we are Unit 7 Week 3 our new words are Variant Vowel o. We will be completing our Spelling and Grammar Pamphlet concentration on dialog and standard English.
Science – We are continuing our unit on Weather we began last week.
Math – We are continuing to learn about Fractions. We will be working on Lessons 8, 9 10 and 12. We will take the Topic B quiz after lesson 9 and there will be a mid-module review on Friday.
TB testing– The health department will be returning tomorrow to do the follow up testing for TB. They will be here on Monday and Wednesday. Make sure that you have your permission slips returned, so the health department doesn’t have to call you.
High Tech High Touch- We are so excited that High Tech High Touch will be returning on Thursday to do another exciting hands-on science presentation for our class. Thank you to the PTA and for all of you that support the PTA for providing the funds to pay for this wonderful program!
1/2 day – Friday, March 17th (Happy St. Patrick’s Day!) will be a Professional Development Day for staff and 1/2 day for students. Dismissal at 12:05
Book Fair – Please consider coming in to help with the book fair! It takes several parent volunteers for it to run smoothly! The sign up genius below provides the dates and times, as well as what is happening that day (set up, preview, shopping, make up day). The book fair is the week of March 20th!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0F4FA5AD2FA1F85-march
End of Marking period – Friday, March 24th – All missing work will be due by Wednesday, March 22nd.
Submitting Native American Assignments– Make sure that your students submit all parts of the Native American projects in Schoology so that I am able to grade all parts. Notes, Outline and Rough draft each get a grade and need to be completed and submitted.
IXL Practice– Please continue to practice with IXL to work on increasing the skills needed to get a higher score on the NWEA. We will begin testing again in a few weeks. Students will also be taking the MSTEP for the first time in 3rd grade. This is the state standardized test. Doing well on these tests will help students get into our STEM program and can also lead to scholarships in the future.
Spring break- Will begin at the end of the school day on March 24th and continue until April 2nd. We will also have April 7th off. Enjoy your time off!
Pictures – Spring pictures will be on Tuesday April 4th after spring break.
Fasting – If you are going to let your child try fasting during school hours, please make sure you complete this very brief form giving permission. Children who don’t have permission not be allowed to join the fasting group. Knowing the number of children fasting helps us to make plans for an alternative location during lunch.
Parent Teacher Conferences are by invitation only on Thursday 3/16. – We are only given 1 day in the spring, opposed to the 3 days we are given in the Fall, so there isn’t time to meet with everyone again. If you did not receive an invitation for a conferences, then I have no concerns or reason to conference. Your child is doing well. If you have a concern that you wish to address please email me the concern and I will see about squeezing you in on Thursday. We will not have a report card until after the Marking Period ends on 3/24. keeblek@dearbornschools.org
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