Sunday, October 25, 2015

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. 









Sunday, October 18, 2015

Monday News

Dear Families,

Important Update:Homework assignments can be found on students' google classroom accounts.
https://classroom.google.com

We collected coins (and bills) that amounted to $82.87 for Save Our Strays. Thank you to all the families who were able to bring in the coins. Ms. Motta has coordinated for Roy and Lisa of Save Our Strays to come to school with Sadie to accept the check on Wednesday. Look for photos of that acceptance. As usual, the photographer will be a student. I hope she/he gets all of Sadie in the photo. She is a Great Dane! 


Four Winds is scheduled for Monday, Hike Day is Tuesday and our field trip to Lone Rock Point is Thursday. Please have your child dressed for outdoor activities this week. We may postpone activities depending on the weather. Stay tuned...


This week is the publishing party for the narrative piece. The 3/4 wing will gather in the gym in 17 groups of three and read their pieces to each other on Wednesday.  

Have a great week,

Mrs. Carter

Monday, October 12, 2015

Monday(Tuesday) News

Dear Families,

I hope you enjoyed the long weekend. The leaves were stunning! 

Please look for a permission slip coming home about a field trip to Lone Rock Point in Burlington on October 22nd. This trip will tie into our World Geography and Geology units.

This week, Alannah will begin teaching Reading Workshop on Tuesdays. She teaches in the Y after school program at BPMS. I will have my team meetings with the 3/4 team at this time. This week we will continue our study of character traits. We will focus on the changes a character goes through in a story. Students learn that most fiction stories contain a lesson that the characters learn and grow from. All characters change, grow, and learn lessons as a result of events or conflicts in the story.

Homework:
It's a short week. Read every night for at least 20-30 minutes. Read your book project book.
Math - 1 page for both 3rd and 4th graders.

Don’t miss out! Enter a contest today!

3rd graders – Enter to have your illustration published in the Vermont Fire Safety Calendar. Go to: http://www.firesafety.vermont.gov/

4th graders – Letters About Literature Writing Contest. Go to:

3rd and 4th graders – Enter your BPMS logo by October 29th.

Important Dates:
  • Wednesday, October 14th, Delayed Start Day, 9:40 a.m. for students
  • Monday, October 19th, Four Winds
  • Tuesday, October 20th, HIKE DAY confirmed, rain date Friday, October 23rd.
  • Thursday, October 22nd, trip to Lone Rock Point in Burlington
  •  Friday, October 23rd, We lead all school morning meeting
  • Thursday, October 29th, Fire Safety Day



Student Blogger:
Run for the Sun
by M.P. and M.L.

We played a game in science called Run for the Sun and water was energy that moved up the food chain. More energy is used up as you go up the food chain. In the game I was a soy bean. It is a producer. I get my energy from the sun. The cow eats the soybean and the human eats a hamburger. We had a lot of fun. Luckily, we didn’t get wet.

Sunday, October 4, 2015

Monday News

Dear Families,

Thursday, October 15th, we will have our first publishing party for our Narrative Writing Unit. This will be the only publishing party that parents will not be invited. However, all the 3/4 students will celebrate their writing on this day together. There will be opportunities for parents to view student writing since it does not go home until the end of the school year. I have the previous year’s published pieces so the students will be able to see their growth this year.

Conferences start this week. There will be no school on Friday and Monday. Please let me know if you do not remember your conference time or are unable to attend.

The first book project goes home this week. Each month, children will read a book and use the project guidelines to share with others about their book.

Last week the students met their prebuddies. We will spend time with our prebuddies the last Wednesday of each month. Next month’s theme will be bats.

Homework:

Reading:
Read each night for a minimum of 20-30 minutes. 


Choose a book and bring it to school to be approved by your teacher for the October book project by Thursday. Read the book at home and use the book to complete this month’s book project due October 30th. This can be a book from the classroom or library.  

Math: 
3rd graders – page 45 and 464th graders – pages 

Science: We are studying interdependence in science. Students are learning that energy is transferred through interdependent systems to support life.Energy derived from food is needed for all organisms (plants and animals) to stay alive and grow. In simple and complex food webs, all animals' food begins with plants. Choose one night this week to trace your dinner back to the sun.
For example, a hamburger (beef and bun) -->cow-->grass--> sun
 -->Flour-->Wheat--> sun

Homework due October 8, 2015


Vocabulary Tree

by student bloggers, RR and SC


This Is Our Classrooms Vocabulary Tree. Our First Word Is PROTAGONIST.