3/23/23

 Burg's Buzz

nburg@crestonstmalachy.org

3/23/23

Math

The class is preparing for the topic 8 (addition and subtraction strategies). Students have completed the review and have been working on practice assessment. The test will be on Monday, March 27th.

Reading/Language Arts

This week the class is reading the historical fiction story Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan. In this selection, Jacob puts an advertisement in the newspaper looking for a wife and mother for his child after his wife died. Sarah, from Maine, answers the ad. She comes to visit the prairie for a month to visit Jacob, Anna, and Caleb. Since the story in our textbook isn't the whole story, I am reading the book aloud to the class. I also plan on reading the other two books in the series Skylark and Caleb. The comprehension skill reviewed story structure. Students also worked on base words with the endings of -ed and -ing as the phonics skill. The class continued to work on using adverbs as the grammar skill. Students worked on comparative and superlative adverbs. The vocabulary skill covers the prefixes of non-.

In the take home folder are the results of the lesson 20 weekly assessment and the unit 4 benchmark test.

Science

The third grade class continues to learn about weather. Students in third, fourth, and fifth grade had the pleasure of having Channel 5 meteorologist Brandon Lawrence give a presentation about weather. The students thoroughly enjoyed the presentation.

Book Order Form

This past Monday I sent home a note with each third grader about parents ordering a copy of the class book that the students are writing. Please get pre-orders in by Friday, March 31st.

Important Dates

Thursday, March 23rd-PTO Meeting

Friday, March 24th-Spirit Day $1

Friday, March 24th-"Books Knock Our Socks Off" Day

Friday, April 7th-Good Friday (No School)

Monday, April 10th-ISASP Testing Begins

Friday, April 14th-Spirit Day $1