Mrs. Keebler's Blog

Permission slips – Please get your permissions slips in as soon as possible.  We are all full on chaperones now.  NO MORE CHAPERONES please.  Field trip is on February 2nd 9:15-2:30.

NWEA Testing continues this week.  Make sure your student practices their MAP skills each day, I am seeing good results from those who practiced with MAP skills.  Make sure your child eats a healthy breakfast (no sugar cereal), and gets a good nights rest.

1/2 day Friday – dismissal at 11:45.  End of Marking Period

All Missing work due by Thursday 1/25

Unit B3 3rd Grade Social Studies Study Guide answers

We will be going on a field trip to the Detroit Historical Museum and a concert in the afternoon.  The cost will be $5 per person.  You will need a sack lunch.  We will be taking a bus.  We are going with Ms. Truxall’s class also. Permission slips will be going out soon.

Reminders – Late Start tomorrow – Please arrive at 9:35

Movie Night – This Friday – please be sure to send in your registration form.

NWEA Testing – We will continue NWEA testing tomorrow.  Make sure your child is well rested, eats a good breakfast and does not come to school sick.  Many students are saying the don’t feel well during school.  Make sure if they say they are not feeling well in the morning to keep them home.  We will do make up tests later.  Continue to practice your MAP Skills at home.

Math Test – We will have a math test on Thursday.  I sent home the study guide today.  Your child should have brought it home.  Please correct it with them and help them understand any answers they got wrong.   Please send the study guide back tomorrow we will review the answers and take the test on Thursday.  If you did not get the study guide here it is: Grade 3 PRE Test Unit 4

Social Studies test– We will be taking the district common social studies assessment on Friday.

Here is the study guide:   Unit B3 3rd Grade Social Studies Study Guide

Feel free to print it at home and begin to work on it.  I will print it for everyone else tomorrow.

Don’t forget – No School tomorrow for Martin Luther King Jr. Day – enjoy your holiday.

NWEA  Testing – We will continue to do NWEA testing this week.  Most have finished the Math test.  We will be doing to reading test on Tuesday.  Please use the extra time on Monday to continue to practice your MAP Skills to prepare for the NWEA testing this week.  Everyone has new missions right now if you need more please send me an email.

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful restful break.  I am doing well with recovery and I am in much less pain than before.  I get more mobility each day.  I am scheduled to return on 1/12 after my post-operative doctors appointment.

MAP Skills – It is very important that everyone is practicing their MAP skills every day.  I’m pleased to see that several of you are working hard.  I am working hard to keep up with assigning new missions.  I assigned new missions today for everyone.  Some students are not working at all.  Please make sure that your child is spending a minimum of 20-30 minutes each day on their MAP skills.  This is the best way to practice for and improve scores on our up coming NWEA testing when I return on the 12th.  If you need help logging in please let me know.

Reading Logs/Projects this coming week– I would like to request that everyone please do a reading log for this week, since I will not be in school on Wednesday to see the projects.  If you already started a project just save it for the next week.  Please print the reading logs off the blog in the homework section.  If for some reason you are unable to print please have your student write 5 entries on a piece of paper.  Be sure to include the title of the book and the author.

Upcoming Dates to remember:

1/8 – Return to school

1/8 – Adam is Star of the Week

1/11 – Magic of Science Assembly

1/12 – NWEA Testing

1/15 – No School – Martin Luther King Day

1/16-1/19 NWEA Testing

1/17- Late Start

1/19- PTA Movie Night

1/22 – Issraa is Star of the Week

1/26-1/2 day – End of Marking Period

2/19-2/23 – No School Mid Winter Break

Hello Everyone,

I hope everyone who celebrates had a wonderful Christmas.  I hope everyone is having a restful break.  I have completed my surgery and I am home recovering.  I get a little better each day.  Thank you for all of the thoughtful presents.  I really enjoyed all of them.

I wanted to remind everyone that NWEA testing will begin after I return from recovering January 12th.   I would love to see everyone percentile scores increase.  It is important that everyone practice for the test with the MAP skills website.  I have added a lot of new missions and I will try my best to keep up on assigning new missions, but feel free to send me an email reminder if they need more.  I would like to remind everyone of the Links and Password page on my blog.  This gives you all the information you need to login to all the different websites we use.  The one that gives people the most problem is Clever.  You need to go to Clever.com and login with Google.  Type the student’s lunchcard number@dearbornschools.org as the user name and the password is their birthday mmddyyyy.

I have also added the new spelling for week 15 if students want to work on that.

Enjoy and Happy New Year!  See you in 2018!

Gingerbread houses – 12-22-17 – 2PM – There are still items needed for our Gingerbread housed on Friday.  There was a problem with the form an it was not allowing you to see the items. Here is the new link

https://goo.gl/forms/UDOAGOBYRhxC6rZs1

Social Studies quiz – We will be taking the lesson quiz tomorrow.  You can find a copy of the quiz in the Student History book on Google classroom or on my lesson plans page 48.

Vocabulary and Word Game – some students didn’t complete the Vocabulary and Word Game Crossword puzzle.  I have added the Michigan Community Studies Weekly newspaper to Google classroom so that they can finish it tonight.  We will correct it tomorrow before the quiz.

Outdoor weather gear – PLEASE make sure that your students are prepared to go outside each day.  If they don’t own boots please send an extra pair of shoes so we don’t have wet carpets to sit on.  They will not be allowed to play in the snow if they don’t have snow pants and boots, they will have to stand on the sidewalk.  We will go out each day the weather is greater than 20 degrees with the wind chill.  If it is within 5 degrees of 20 please make sure they are ready to go out.

Gingerbread houses/party Friday 2 PM- please make sure you have signed up for something to bring to our party.  There are only 15 people signed and many things still missing.  If we don’t have enough supplies we will not be able to make the houses.

Spirit week next week.