Due to the chilly weather heading our direction, as a third grade team we have decided to postpone our field trip on January 31st. Our Lansing trip will now be on Thursday, February 21st.   Hopefully by then it will be a lot warmer than -40!

Today we also passed out our Lansing Field Trip shirts. Make sure to touch base with your child about your shirts!

Last Friday, we also had selected chaperones for our Lansing Field trip via lottery system. Due to the amount of individuals allowed on the tour at the capitol building, we can only have 8 chaperones attend this trip. Every chaperone slip was placed inside a classroom bucket, and as a class we pulled 8 names at random. The chaperones we have pulled are listed below. We have also selected several backup chaperones in case something happens. If your name was not selected for this trip, on future trips you will be placed on the top of the list as a potential chaperone. In addition, if you can no longer make the new field trip date of February 21st, please let me know ASAP so that I can let another chaperone know. Thank you for being so understanding and being supportive of our class.

-Amanda Fawaz

-Azaz Khatri

-Justin Mkrtumian

-Ziad Baydoun

-Martin Casares

-Emily Blumenstein

-Amira Mathlif

-Gaby Hughes

Backup Chaperones

-Joshua Elling

-Faten Dabajeh

-Elena Schook

-Robert Ramirez

-Melissa Kreger

I hope everyone had a long restful weekend this past week. We are now about to embark into our third marking period! This marking period will be filled with more amazing curriculum and plenty of hands-on learning experiences.

We are still looking for chaperones for our Lansing field trip. If you are interested, please make sure you have an updated background check in the office and have turned in your interested slip to class by Thursday this week! We would love to have you join us on our adventure!

Today your child also received our SchoolMall packet. This  year our school is partnering with SchoolMall to help raise funds to purchase the essential tools needed in our school and classroom. If you could please support this program, our school would appreciate it!

Lastly, listed below are our “Big Rocks” for the week and upcoming events!

Reading- Folktale Unit of Study (recounting stories, identifying the theme/moral, and characteristics of a folktale)

Writing- Outlining our narrative stories and researching great narrative qualities

Science- Reflecting on our climate/weather unit and building upon our next unit “Animals Through Time.” In this unit students will develop an appreciation for how animals and the places they live (their habitats) are not constant—they have changed over time. Fossils give us a window to the animals and habitats of the past. Selective breeding shows us not only how some animals of the past became domesticated, but allows us to imagine how they might look in the future.

Social Studies- Beginning our next unit “The Growth of Michigan.” Discussing how farming and the lumber industry has grown Michigan’s population and economy.

Math- Beginning Module 3: Multiplication and Division with Units of 0, 1, 6-9, and Multiples of 10. We will be studying the commutative property to find known facts of 6, 7, 8, and 9.

Spelling- No spelling words this week due to NWEA testing

Leader in Me- Habit 4: Think Win-Win. A key concept of Habit 4: Think Win-Win is Abundance Mentality. An Abundance Mentality is the belief that there is plenty of success to go around. Make sure to ask your child, “What does thinking abundantly mean?”

Upcoming Events 

Wednesday-  NWEA Reading and Team Sports

Thursday- Chaperone Slips due to Ms. Robey (lottery will be held later that day), NWEA Math, and ELG Tutoring!

Friday- Popcorn Friday

Next Monday- Field Trip Permission Slips Due

Next Thursday- Lansing Field Trip!

Good Evening Parents!

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to grade our Module 2 math test. While grading our tests, I noticed some students needed some extra time to check over their answers. Therefore, today I gave students an opportunity to correct some mistakes and reread their problems. If a student got above an 80%, they were able to take home the test today. The rest of the students will be receiving their math test tomorrow. Please make sure to sign your child’s test and return it to class.

While grading, I use the Eureka Math module assessment rubric. I have included that PDF here for you to review. Please let me know if you have any further questions!

Module 2 End-of-Module Rubric

Good Evening Parents,

I have just uploaded the Module 2 Math Review answer key into the study guide section on our web page. Feel free to check over your child’s review sheet and make any corrections.

Good Evening Parents,

Thank you to all of those parents who have signed up for our Kid’s Heart Challenge! Our class has the most individuals signed up so far! Please continue supporting this challenge and collecting pop tabs/pet supplies! Our community thanks you! This week marks the final week in our second marking period. During this week, your child will be taking some assessments to determine where they are in our class.

On Friday your child received their science test from Unit 2. Please make sure to sign this test and bring it back to class tomorrow! In addition, today your child received their mid-module unit 2 math assessment. We took this assessment back at the start of December, however I wanted students to take it home to show you how they were progressing before our final test. Please have your child make corrections on this test. This will be another great tool for studying!

If your child scored below an 80%, and you would like for them to retake their science test I will be at the school at 8:00 am on Wednesday morning for retakes. Please let me know ahead of time if you plan on sending your child early.

Listed below in this email you will find some of the curriculum we will be covering this week. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out!

Reading- Folktales, folktale structure (story plot and morals), and verb tenses

Writing- Developing personal narratives

Science- Engineering buildings to withstand natural disasters

Social Studies- How Michigan become a state, social studies review, and social studies test on Wednesday.

Math- Estimating differences using subtraction, math study guide, and math test on Thursday.

Spelling- No spelling this week due to testing!

Leader in Me- In Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind, we determine our personal priorities. In
Habit 3: Put First Things First, we learn to put our priorities first. “Quadrant 2
Living” is a key concept of Habit 3. The Time Matrix® tool helps us understand how
we use our time. Once we are aware of how we spend our time, we can manage it
and achieve what matters most to us. Ask
your child, “Which activity is your biggest time-waster?”

Upcoming Events this Week

Monday- Final day for Field Trip Shirts

Tuesday- In-School Field Trip Permission Slip and Money due and Social Studies Review Day

Wednesday- Science Retakes at 8:00am (if your child scored under 80%), Social Studies Test, and Math Review Day (please bring completed study guide)

Thursday- Math Test and In-School Field Trip

Friday- Half Day, end of Marking Period, and team sports permission slips due

Greetings Flyers Family,

Good Evening Parents,

Since we are wrapping up the second card marking we will be starting some mid-year testing. Today your child received their study guides for math and social studies. If for some reason your child is still missing their study guide, or if you would like an extra copy, you can find them underneath the Unit 2 Study Guide tab. I will also be putting review games up there as well!

In addition, I am also putting down our upcoming test schedule. This will help everyone use habit 2: begin with the end in mind, and plan for those upcoming tests. I know testing sometimes makes students nervous, and so before the test we will be doing some yoga as well as some positive affirmation stress relief talk. Hopefully this will be a testing tool students will use to relax and calm down during the test. One way to help at home is to remind students to get a good night’s sleep, give a “pep” talk before school,  and a great breakfast before test days.

Upcoming Test Schedule

Throughout Jan. – DRA (reading) Testing

Thursday 01/10- NWEA Science

Wednesday 01/16- Social Studies Unit 2 Test

Thursday 01/17- Module 2 Math Test

Wednesday 01/23- NWEA Reading

Thursday 01/24- NWEA Math

Monday 01/28-  NWEA ELA

Students at Lindbergh Elementary practice the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.  We are calling on our Fantastic Flyers to submit ways they are leaders outside of school.  If you are involved in a sport, scouts, music, dance, theater, or showcase your leadership skills in another way, please participate.  Send in a photograph and a short description of how you use the 7 Habits in the activity pictured.  Use the form below to accompany your photo. The photograph will appear in the lobby showcase.  

Thank you for sharing your leadership with our school!

Fantastic Flyer Form

In order to go to Lansing in style, the third grade team has designed a third grade Lansing shirt! If you or your child is interested buying our shirt, all you have to click the link below by Monday January 14th and purchase your item! The shirts will ship free to our school and will arrive just in time for our trip!

Just think this a great to souvenir for years to come!

Third Grade Lansing T-Shirt Order Form

Happy New Year! I’m so happy and excited to see everyone back and ready! Welcome back!  I can’t thank you all enough for your generosity with holiday gifts. I am so honored to have your children in my class.  I want to begin with an apology.  I wrote out many thank you cards for your gifts but when I got home a few had no names.  If I accidentally do not send one home by the end of the week please let me know so I can properly thank each and everyone!

Over the next two weeks we will be wrapping up our second card marking! We also will be handing back our assessments that we took before break, please make sure to review them with your child.

We also will be looking forward to many fun events coming up this month in January. Next Thursday, we will have an in-school field trip! We will have a Native American Guest Speaker come in to discuss Native American tribes in Michigan and bring in artifacts to share with our class. In addition, we also will going on the Third Grade Lansing Field Trip on January 31st.

If you are interested in chaperoning our field trip, please make sure to stop by the office and get your background check completed. Only parents with current background checks will be allowed to go on our trip. The sooner the better please! Following your background check, please email me to let me know you are interested in chaperoning! Due to the amount people permitted inside the capital building on the tour, we are sadly limited to how many chaperones/parents that can attend. In order to select chaperones, we will be pulling names in a lottery system the week before the trip. I wish I could take all of you lovely parents!

Lastly, listed below are some of the items we are working on and upcoming events. As always, feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

Reading- Analyzing folktales by looking for morals/themes within texts and DRA assessment

Writing- Personal Narratives and presenting holidays around the world project

Math- Place value with digits, rounding numbers to the nearest ten and hundred, estimating using rounding for sums, and standard algorithm of addition

Social Studies- French and British history in Michigan, pioneers in Michigan, and discussing statehood of Michigan.

Science- Engineering weather proof buildings

Spelling- content words: explorer, lumber, subtraction, solve, and characters

spelling pattern /gr//br/&/cr: grapes, bring, cried, grow, and brain

Leader in Me: Habit 3: Put First Things First

Planning weekly is a key concept for habit 3. Weekly planning helps us schedule our most important things (big rocks) first and stay on track to accomplish goals.

Upcoming Events 

Tuesday- In-School Permission Slips went home

Wednesday- Heart Association Assembly

Thursday- NWEA Science Test

Coming Soon…

Next Tuesday- Social Studies Test

Wednesday- Math Test

Friday- NWEA ELA Test