10/13/21

 Burg's Buzz
nburg@crestonstmalachy.org
10/14/21

 Reading/Language Arts

This week students are reading the nonfiction selection "Bat Loves Night" by Nicola Davies. Night has fallen, and Bat awakens to find an evening meal. The reader follows Bat's journey as she swoops into the shadows on the hunt for a moth to eat. Bat then returns to the roost to feed her baby until nighttime comes again. The comprehension skill focused on sequencing. Students identified verbs as the grammar skill. The phonics skill covered words with the VCV pattern. The vocabulary strategy was understanding the suffixes -able and -ible.

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To put some fun into our Friday routine of rereading the story to get ready for weekly assessment, we will have Flashlight/Fort Friday. Students will be able to bring a blanket from home to create a "fort" using their desk and chair. I will turn the lights out,  and I provide each student with a flashlight to read his/her story while they are in their fort. There will also be a reflection writing activity, so students can respond to what they read. My desire with this is to help children grow to love reading. My hope is that the students are able to handle this fun in a responsible way that we can do it again later in the year.

The Unit 1 Benchmark test results have been included in the take home folder. These results are yours to keep. The benchmark assessment differs from the weekly assessments. The weekly tests assess students on the story and skills worked on during the week.The story is read several times and listen to the audio version of the story. The benchmark test assesses students on the skills covered in five units through a variety of fiction and nonfiction passages that the students have not read until the test. The benchmark tests show whether students are able to apply the skills learned to new text.

Science

The third grade class continue to learn about the forces of friction and gravity.

Math

The third grade students continue to learn the basic multiplication facts. The factors of 3, 4, 6, and 8 have been covered. Please continue to practice the basic multiplication facts at home.

Parent/Teacher Conferences

St. Malachy School will be having parent/teacher conferences on Thursday, October 28th from 10:00-6:00 PM. Please sign up for a conference using this link 3rd Grade Fall Conferences. If these times are not convenient for your family's schedule, please contact me to set up an alternate time that works. 

Please note there is no school on Friday, October 29th. There is also no school on Monday, November 1st due to teacher professional development.

Halloween

St. Malachy School will be celebrating Halloween during the afternoon of Wednesday, October 27th. The middle school has activities planned for the younger students after lunch. The parade will also take place during the afternoon. Students will bring costumes to school and change before the parade.

Important Dates

Thursday, October 21st-PTO Meeting

Friday, October 22nd-Spirit Day $1

Wednesday, October 27th-Halloween Party/Parade

Thursday, October 28th-Parent/Teacher Conferences 

Friday, October 29th-NO SCHOOL

Monday, November 1st-Teacher Professional Development 

Friday, November 5th-Spirit Day $1