2/22/24

 Burg's Buzz

2/22/24

nburg@crestonstmalachy.org

Reading/Language Arts

The stories in Module 7 will focus on community and how one person can make a meaningful difference. The first selection that we are reading this week is a biography entitled Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table. Students worked on the comprehension skills of included author's purpose, text structure, and making and confirming predictions. The decoding skill covered compound words and abbreviations. The class worked with using the suffix of -ion. The grammar skill reviewed irregular nouns.

The weekly assessments for this story will be on Monday, February 26th.

The results of the Module 6 testing have been included in the take home folder.

Math

The next skill that students in third grade will work on is addition and subtraction using the regrouping strategy.

Science

The third grade is learning about weather. The class has discussed types of weather, causes of weather, and weather instruments used to measure weather.

Parent/Teacher Conferences

Parent/Teacher conferences are scheduled during the evenings of Monday, March 4th-Wednesday, March 6th, and the morning of Thursday, March 7th. If you have not yet signed up for a conference time, please do so on JMC. There is no school on Friday, March 8th. Spring break then runs from Monday, March 11th-14th. 

National Reading Month

March is National Reading month. The 3rd grade class will be celebrating throughout the entire month. A note has been included in the take home folder about all of the activities and dress up days planned.

Important Dates

Friday, February 23rd-Spirit Day $1

Monday, February 26th-3rd Trimester Begins (Late Slips)

Saturday, March 2nd-STM Gala

Monday, March 4th-Thursday, March 7th-Parent/Teacher Conferences

Friday, March 8th-NO SCHOOL

Monday, March 11th-Friday, March 14th-Spring Break (NO SCHOOL)