Monday News

Dear Families,

We finally have snow! Let’s hope for more snow for our Nordic skiing on Fridays.

Mark your calendars! The 3/4 school play will be January 28^th in the evening.

Don’t forget the book projects are due January 4^th.

Tuesday is going to be a very fun day. The students will do holiday/winter activities in the morning. Some activities will be making wrapping paper, snowflakes, ornaments and snowball shooters. The publishing party will be at 12:50, followed by the holiday sing along.

The students wrote letter to pen pals at Underhill Central School. 

Don’t forget to do Fasttmath  and read over break.

Have a wonderful holiday and New Year’s!

                                                                                             Mrs. Carter

Monday News

Hello Families,

This week, the third and fourth graders will continue to work on perimeter and area in math.

We will have prebuddies on Wednesday and get fitted for cross-country skis on Tuesday. Hopefully we will have snow soon.

We will be working hard on our personal essays this week. Mark your calendars for the publishing party and Holiday Sing Along starting at 12:45 on December 22^nd. The 3/4 wing will have their holiday celebration in the morning. More information will be going home on Wednesday.

The students will go to the Sterling House to sing to the residents on Friday. Getting a bit spiffied up for the field trip would be nice for the residents. The students will also stop by Lavallee Drive to see erosion and weathering. We will lead all school morning meeting on Friday. 

Enjoy your week,

Anna

Monday News

Dear Families,

We will be leading All School Morning Meeting on the 18^th and then going to the Sterling House. On December 22nd, there will be a publishing party at 1 pm and a Holiday Sing Along at 1:30 pm. We scheduled the publishing party before the sing along to make it easier for parents to attend. More information will be coming home soon.  I will be out on Tuesday for a math meeting in Jericho and I will be out on Wednesday for another session of math at BPMS.  Wednesday is our late start day.

The students are very excited about a short-focused research project for social studies. They have a choice of: landforms; a biome; an animal or plant from a biome; or maps. They also have a choice in how to present their research: poster; game; Google slides; or Google document. This choice is very motivating (as you can imagine) for learners. Mrs. Irish and Ms. Motta will be working with them on the research method involving note taking, citations, editing, revising and presenting.

Please remember to turn in skiing and Sterling House permission slips.

Have a great week,

Anna

Monday News

Dear Families,

I hope you had a wonderful holiday! My family spent the weekend in Massachusetts visiting family.

The book project for December will be going home Monday. It will be to create a graffiti wall to display at school.

This month, the students will go on a field trip to the Sterling House in Richmond. The students will sing to the residents and on the way back will stop at Lavallee Drive in Huntington to see an example of erosion.

In Reading, we will continue to extract main ideas and supporting details from expository texts. In writing, the students will work to develop their thesis statement to write an opinion essay.

In Science, we are switching our Geology lense to focus on rocks and minerals instead of just erosion and weathering.

Exciting news!

3rd and 4th graders will have cross-country skiing during PE on six Fridays in January, February and March. This will take place at BPMS on five of those Fridays. The last Friday will be at Sleepy Hollow with a $5.00 trail fee. Look for forms going home this week.

Important Dates

December 4th - report cards go home
December 9th - Delayed Start
December 11th - Kids ONLY Shopping Extravaganza!
December 16th - Prebuddies in the afternoon
December 18th - We lead All School Morning Meeting
December 22nd - 1:30 pm, Winter Holiday Sing (possibly a publishing party from 1-1:30 pm)

Enjoy your week,
Mrs. Carter

Saying goodbye (for now) to Ryan.

Finding shapes with Prebuddies. 

 

Monday News

Dear Families,

Our schedule has many changes this week. On Monday we will take a trip to the book fair to browse the shelves. We will have Guidance on Monday, instead of Friday. On Wednesday, we will have prebuddies and go to the rec field to observe our fall micro-habitat. 

We are finishing up our stream tables. The students noticed that the greater the flow of water, the more erosion impacts the land. 

We finished our read aloud, Hoot. We are starting Poppy by Avi this week. 

Mark your calendars - Tuesday, December 22nd at 1:30 pm, we will have the Winter Holiday Sing Along. We are going to try to have our publishing party for opinion writing at 1:00. More details to follow.

Monday News

Dear Families,

Two weeks until Thanksgiving vacation and we have a lot to pack in!

Science – Our geology unit has two parts.  We will finish up erosion, weathering, deposition and stream tables. We will learn about rocks and minerals after Thanksgiving break.

Word Study – Some of the spelling groups are learning the 1-1-1 doubling up rule in spelling. A word with 1 syllable, 1 vowel, and 1 final consonant gets a doubled ending consonant when adding a suffix.

Writing – We are working on opinion writing. We are using OREO to help us remember how to write a persuasive essay paragraph.

O-opinion, R-reason, E-evidence, O-restate opinion

Math – Third graders have started a data unit.

Reading – I will be progress monitoring students this week to get an accurate reading level and to make sure students are making progress.

Homework is sent home on Mondays and should be finished by Friday.

Don’t forget-Scholastic Book Fair is the week of November 16^th!

Enjoy your week,

Mrs. Carter

Monday News

Dear Families, 

A new book project will be sent home Monday and will be due at the end of the month. Students should bring their book to me by Friday to be approved. 

Monday we will head to the Flynn Theater to see Andes Manta. Señora Harris will join us. 

The fire fighters joined us Thursday. They reminded the students to change the batteries in their carbon monoxide and fire detectors during day light savings. They also handed out great goody bags!

Lyn Piper, a Huntingtonian, came to social studies on Thursday to educate the children about cochlear implants. Lyn is deaf and shared how she gets along in a hearing world. The children were excited to learn a little ASL (American sign language).

We are reading the book, Hoot, by Carl Hiassen during read aloud. We are almost finished and the students are beginning to see how all the characters are connected, but we still don't know how the burrowing owls are connected. 

Monday, November 9th, will be a special lunch to celebrate the 50th day of

school during the 50th birthday year at BPMS. 

The book fair will be November 16-20. 

Enoy these pictures of prebuddies!

Fire Safety Day!

Monday News

Dear Families,

Last week was a great week! We had beautiful weather for hike day and Lone Rock Point. The students did an amazing job leading All School Morning Meeting and celebrated their writing with a publishing party. Take a look at the pictures from the week and have your child explain their week to you. Remember, the pictures were taken by our student bloggers.

This week we will have pre-buddies on Wednesday, Fire Safety on Thursday and start our new writing unit (opinion - persuasive speeches, petitions, and editorials).

Our Four Winds trip to the river to learn about erosion. Thank you Maggie Mae and Jennifer for teaching the lesson!

 Hike Day at Windekind Farms

 The third grade mathematicians raised money for Save Our Strays. 

 Field trip to Lone Rock Point in Burlington. It is a reverse thrust fault. The older rocks are on top of the younger rocks.

Narrative Publishing Party 

Learning about types of soil (humus, clay, sand and gravel) in science class.