Newsletter 6-1-15

We’re reviewing unit six this week.  We’ve had fun reading stories like Just Like Josh Gibson, Cowboys, and Grace for President.

We’ve learned a lot of American history in our language arts and social studies units.  We’ve also learned some Utah history and symbols.

We just finished our math unit on telling time and graphing.  Please continue to practice telling time over the summer.  This week we’re practicing third-grade math, such as multiplication and division.

We have had some fabulous art lessons taught by Mrs. James.  We were inspired by Grant Wood's farm pictures.

RAD Kids was such a terrific learning experience for our children.  They really grew that week, and it was exciting to see their confidence at the program on Friday.  Thanks for supporting them!

Our field trip to the aquarium was so exciting!  We saw all sorts of interesting sea animals, and we got to have a special class about the blue whale.  Ask your child what they learned!  Thank you to our mom helpers who went with us that day.

Thank you to all the families who donated money for the fun run.  We had six of our students bring over $100, including Trinity, who brought over $500.  She got to help make the principal into an ice cream sundae!  We earned all sorts of fun things like crazy hair day, pajama day, and field day.

May reading calendars are due this week.  There is no homework.

I've loved teaching your children this year.  They are a wonderful group, and I am going to miss them.  Thank you for all your support this year.  Have a wonderful summer!

Kristen Adams

     

Newsletter 4-25

We've been busy since spring break.  We finished our fifth language arts unit on responsibility, and we took the CFA test.  Our class did a terrific job!  Watch for the printout of your child’s score.  We will begin our last unit on Monday, which focuses on traditions and celebrations.

We’ve been working on narrative writing in this unit.  We chose our favorite spring activity to write about and made cute spring lambs!

We are working on adding and subtracting money in math, and we will take the test this week.  The kids enjoyed displaying their favorite coins on money day.  Thanks for helping them.  Although we finished our unit on counting money, please have your child continue to practice.  The more we practice, the better we get!

We are so excited for our Ugly Duckling performance!  We have been rehearsing, and the kids have learned their parts very well.  Remember, the parent performance is at 2:00 on Thursday, April 30.  We hope you can make it!

Our SOAR week was a success!  Our students earned lots of something to celebrate tickets, and eight lucky winners got Pop Rocks.  We had an awesome rock star day!

We have been learning about respect and responsibility in class.  We ended with a great assembly, where Sienna received our award. 

We are so lucky to have two programs taught by parent volunteers.  Trinity’s mom is teaching Junior Achievement, and we’re learning a lot about economics.  Madison’s mom is teaching Art Awareness.  We painted beautiful flower pictures on Friday.  Thank you!

We had such a fun Tool Day at school.  Logan’s dad, Trinity’s mom, and Henry’s dad all talked about their careers.  We learned a lot!

Thank you for all your help signing planners and making sure your child returns his or her homework.  Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

         

Newsletter 3-31-15

Our language arts unit is focusing on responsibility.  We’ve talked about being responsible citizens, pet owners, and friends.

We finished our math unit on three-digit addition and subtraction.  It was a tough one, but our kids did great!  We are finishing our unit on geometry this week.

We read about firefighters in language arts, and we had a fire fighter visit our classroom.  He explained his job, taught us about fire safety, and showed us the tools he uses for his job.  We also wrote facts and opinions about fire fighters.

We had a terrific time on St. Patrick’s Day!  We wrote about finding a leprechaun, we made our own leprechauns, and we did Lucky Charms graphing.  Some sneaky leprechauns got into our classroom at lunchtime and caused some mischief!  

We have been practicing our songs, dances and speaking parts for the Ugly Duckling play.  The parent performance will be Thursday, April 30 at 2:00.  We hope you can make it!

If your child has not brought back his or her reading calendar, it needs to be turned in by Friday.

We’ve had three kids achieve 100% fluency on their math facts 0-10 in Reflex Math: Hannah, Trinity, and Henry.  Way to go!  Please have your child spend some time on Reflex Math over spring break.  We have several kids who are close to 100%!

We are celebrating college week.  Our class is B.A.C.K.S. University.  (Ask your child what it means.)  We are the leatherback turtles.  Please have your child wear green and/or grey on Friday.  We're excited to do our cheer for the rest of the school!

Have a wonderful spring break!  

Newsletter 2-22-15

Our language arts story this week was The Night the Moon Fell.  It has beautiful watercolor illustrations, and we tried making some of our own on Friday.  We practiced identifying the plot and theme of stories, and we learned about adverbs.  We continued our informational writing about soil.

We finished our math unit on two-digit subtraction.  Although the unit is over, we will continue to practice two-digit addition and subtraction.  We started place value to 1,000.

We have been learning about plants and rocks in science.  We also learned about fairness in character education, and we put on a great assembly for the school.    

We had an awesome Valentine's Day party!  We played games, decorated cookies, made heart crafts, and handed out valentines.  Thank you to Mrs. Felsing, Mrs. Allen, Mr. Lambert, and Mrs. James for making it such a fun day!

Please remember to sign your child's planner each night.  Homework is always due on the last day of the week.  Reading calendars will be due on Monday, March 2.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.  I love having your children in my class!

Newsletter 1-22-15

We’ve had a great couple of weeks since winter break!  We jumped right back into two-digit addition with regrouping, and I was impressed with how well our class did.  Now we are beginning two-digit subtraction with regrouping.  We’re moving slowly to make sure we really understand the concept.

We are on our review week in Reading Street.  In this unit we practiced verbs, prefixes, compound words, antonyms, author’s purpose, fact and opinion, and many other skills.  We made verb super heroes to show action words!  

Although there was not a homework packet this week, students are still expected to read and practice math facts each day.

We wrote our New Year's goals, including books we want to read and foods we want to try.  We learned about Martin Luther King Jr. and wrote about his life.

We enjoyed seeing "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" at Alta High School.  Our class was very polite and well behaved.

We had a fabulous time at our Hawaiian Luau!  It was fun wearing tropical clothing in the middle of winter.  We ate pineapple, mango, and bananas, and we danced to Hawaiian music.  We did a geography lesson, learned a new song, and tried out some musical instruments.  We also studied volcanoes, which goes with our rock unit.

We’re looking forward to our field trip to the Natural History Museum on Wednesday.  If you signed up for your child to bring home lunch, please make sure you send it that day.

If you haven’t yet signed up for SEP conferences, please do so as soon as possible.  I look forward to meeting with all of you!

Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns.  Thanks for all you do.  Your children are wonderful!

Kristen Adams

kristen.adams@canyonsdistrict.org