FSA Buddy Announcement #2

Testing day #2...

We wanted to make our Buddies smile, so we made them a pretty "CHEESE" poster! 

Then we added cheez-its as the special treat.

 

ooh while I was over there taking the pictures, I took pictures of the Class Letters we wrote for Mrs. Griffin and Mrs. Burgett.

And... our Buddies surprised us with another treat. :) They thanked us for helping make them "Smart Cookies!!" Everyone received their own special bag.

Here is 30 of the sweetest treats ever. :) Thanks Mrs. Griffin and Mrs. Burgett. And thanks FSA Buddies for being the best!!!
Here are a few pictures of the class enjoying them during recess. 

 

FSA Buddy Announcement #1

The FSA Test began today for our 3rd grade FSA Buddies. :)   

The 3rd graders were a little nervous this morning, but all were super excited because they entered their classroom with the cutest Classroom Doors and they had letters written by their penpals. :) 
(I forgot to take pictures of the letters, but I'll try to take them the next time.)

The Smarties are hidden below the message. :)

Also, Mrs. Pitts and I stopped by the teachers' classrooms and left Smarties for everyone to enjoy after their test today! YUM!!

Here is our encouragement poster #1.

Check back for more FSA FUN!!!

Here are the names of our FSA Buddies. I wrote them next to your child's classroom number. :)

(Some of the students received two buddies. Mrs. Griffin and Mrs. Burgett have more students than we do. )

2. Kyle & Savannah

3. Darius & Carla

4. DeShaun

5. Dahlia &Angelina

6.Tra' Maya & Sydney

7. Na' Shawn

8. Chayse

9. Nathan

10. Symphany

11. Nicholas

12. Amani

13. Kameron

14. Oceana

15. Hannah & Ashlynn

16. Kyla

17. Samuel

18. Corey Johnson :)

19. Exavier

20. Madison & Jacqueline

21. Haley

22. Colin

23. Jennifer

24. Raphaella

25. moved away :(

26. Sidney

27. Katelyn & Kaliah

28. Cynthia

29. Mason

30. Anya & Sean

31. Valentin

ooh I almost forgot the COOLEST THING EVER!!! Our FSA Teachers and Buddies brought us special treats. :)  The class LOVED the Halo's!!!

Yearbooks!!

Yearbooks are on sale right now for only $20.00!!

If you wish to order a yearbook, send cash or check in the envelope provided (the envelope is labeled YEARBOOK) and we will send it to the Front Office. 

If you have any questions, please contact the Yearbook Staff at the following email address: chimneylakesyearbook@gmail.com.

**We do not know when the order time ends or when the price will change, those questions would need to be addressed by the Yearbook Staff.**

Week of March 29

**Make sure to check back for pictures of our FSA goodies and messages of encouragement!**

Our Resources for the week are: Tuesday MUSIC. Due to FSA Testing, we will not have any Resources the rest of the week. Wednesday is an Early Release Day and Friday is School Color Day. :) We hope to see lots of blue and yellow!!
Please email us if you would like to sign up for any Fun Friday Snack Dates. 

Handwriting/Writing

We will review the format for writing a letter and discuss who we can write letters to. Then the students will pick one person off of our Letter Writing Chart and they will write a letter to graded. Please review the letter writing format with your child so that they receive the best grade possible. 

MATH

Upon our return to school we will dive further into subtraction. Transitioning between addition and subtraction can cause confusion for even the strongest mathematician. The concept of taking away from a whole group to make 2 parts is strongly emphasized. As the class is working on subtraction, we will continue to work on our addition fluency. Mr. R never lets us down with cute videos for teaching concepts we are learning. Here is a fun one for subtraction!

SCIENCE

Before spring break we looked at the day sky and recorded our observations. This week we focus on the night sky including the moon, stars and planets. Stars and planets are always a favorite topic for our young scientists to explore. Check out websites from NASA if you are looking for some interesting topics to discuss at home. NASA offers great educational videos to share with the family! This week the homework packet will include a moon observation chart to complete over the next 2 weeks. Hopefully the weather will cooperate! Enjoy observing the evening sky with your scientist!

Reading

Sight words for the week are: know, give and back. Our Word Families are the -ack and -amp families. Practice having your child make words that would belong in both~ pack, black, stack, camp, stamp, champ, etc. Along with the CR- blend. Practice having your child think of words that would begin with the br blend: bracelet, brick, brunch, etc.   Here is a slideshow I made for us to use in class. We will also be discussing words that have the long o sound thanks to "Magic/Super/Silent E!!" rope, bone, choke etc.
 We are finishing our stories in the Module on Columbus and the Pilgrims. This week we will discuss the journey the Pilgrims took on the Mayflower, along with the Wampanoags joining them for the First Thanksgiving. We will continue to discuss the timeline and add other important dates to it.  Here are links to the stories we will be reading: The Voyage of the Mayflower, The Wompanoag and Thanksgiving.

Bunnies and Leprechauns pictures!

The past two days have been a blur! We have tried to finish up any missing grades we had because of absences, tried to get the students into the Computer Lab TWICE and complete some i-Ready lessons, teach ALL of our planned lessons, work on FSA Buddy things :) , work on our International Animal craft and... take pictures. haha Mrs. Pitts and I love celebrating our class and showing everyone how cute AND smart our students are! :) Well we did everything we wanted!!! All because our students are the best. :)

Have a Happy Easter and a wonderful Spring Break!!

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Week of March 14

Our Resources for the week are: Monday #1-18 P.E. and #19-37 ART, Tuesday  #1-18 Computer Lab and #19-37 P.E., and Wednesday ART. Wednesday is also PICTURE DAY!! Your child will have their picture taken if pictures have been paid for. You may either send us back the envelope that was sent home attached to the picture file or pay online and send us the printout showing that you paid. The website is www.Leonards.com. 
 
Thursday is St. Patrick's Day~ we are hoping to see green on everyone! Spring Break begins Friday, March 18 and goes through March 28. Enjoy the time off and have a Happy Easter! We will see everyone back in school on Tuesday, March 29.

While we are away, Anaiya will be joining the Six-Year-Old club!! 

Handwriting/Writing

We will review the format for writing a letter. The we are going to come up with questions that we can write to our FSA Buddies and write them letters. :) 
Maybe we'll even receive letters back!

Math

Our principal, Mrs. Knott joined us twice in the past 2 weeks for math time observations. She was very impressed with the class and how much they are learning about addition and subtraction. The class was excited to show her how clever they are with their work. We continue to compose and decompose numbers 9 and 10 this week focusing on story problems. Also we will practice our fluency math facts through 5. 

Flamingos

In the upcoming months our class will be learning more about the continent of Africa. Each class in the school has an "adopted" zoo animal we focus on from the continent of study. Our animal is the flamingo. This week we will learn about the flamingo, write about the flamingo and even make a cute flamingo craft. I am sure Ms. Finocchiaro will add our flamingo family to the blog in the weeks to come for you to enjoy!

Reading

Sight words for the week are: new and take. Our Word Family is the -ump family. Practice having your child make words that would belong in the family~ jump, bump, hump, chump, etc. Along with the SH- blend. Practice having your child think of words that would begin with the sh blend: shake, ship, shamrock, etc.   Here is a slideshow I made for us to use in class. We will also be discussing words that have the long i sound thanks to "Magic/Super/Silent E!!"Bike, kite, hide, etc.

 We are continuing our Module on Columbus and the Pilgrims. This week we will discuss how Christopher Columbus did not make it to the Indies. We will discuss what land he found and then begin a timeline about his life and adventures.  Here are links to the stories we will be reading: Further Adventures of Christopher Columbus and Colonies in Native American Lands

 

Library Visit :)

We had another Library Lesson with Mrs. Noah Thomas. :)

She had her mystery letters for us to figure out Spring Words.The words were butterfly and caterpillar. :)

She read the class two books; Buzz, Buzz, Buzz went Bumblebee and The Crunching Munching Caterpillar.  The class enjoyed the books and were making sounds throughout both. :) Then the class played butterfly hands and danced through a song. Plus they played a head, shoulders, knees and toes game where they rested a pom pom on their body. Finally we ended the lesson by making insects. The girls made butterflies and the boys made caterpillars. We didn't get to take individual pictures because the students used a TON of glue and the insects were very wet... 

 

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Hat Day

The students looked so cute in their hats Friday, we had all different kinds. And they were adorable in their pictures!!
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FSA Buddies

Every year we are assigned an FSA Buddy (previously known as FCAT Buddies) and we cheer them on by making posters, giving them snacks and TONS & TONS & encouragement for three full days.

We sent home envelopes yesterday asking for donations and we even received a few today. Woohoo!!  We wanted to say THANK YOU  to those parents and students, along with the future donators, for helping us cheer on our 3rd grade buddies from Mrs. Griffin and Mrs. Burgett's classes. 

We will post pictures of the things we make and the treats we give. :) Check back here for the updates!

ooh Sneak peak of some of our ideas... they are from Pinterest. (We LOVE Pinterest!!)

     

Dental Health Presentation

Our presentation was great and our presenter, Ms. Maggi was fantastic!! She is from the dentist office of Dr. Beth Kailes and Dr.Nicole Staman. They are located in Fleming Island and you can check out their amazing website by clicking HERE.

The students wanted to share every fact they knew about teeth... most were true, some were a little silly. :) Ms. Maggi informed the students how to clean their teeth, she showed them the parts of a tooth, went over good foods and bad foods (of course the kids thought she asked about yummy and yucky foods haha) and then we were able to have a future dentist in our room. CARLIE!! She was able to experience the items that a doctor/ hygenist wears when we see them in an office in the dentist office.

Here is a video of what you can expect when your child has their first visit at their dentist office.

 Here are the pictures we took during Ms. Maggi's visit. Enjoy!

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Week of March 7

 

Our Resources for the week are: Monday #1-18 ART and #19-37 MUSIC, Tuesday ART, and Thursday MUSIC. Wednesday is an Early Release Day and we have a visit from a Dental Hygenist. Thursday is school fundraiser night at Moe's- Hope to see you all there! And Friday is Hat Day. PLUS- our favorite librarian Mrs. Noah Thomas is making a visit.

**If your child missed out on shopping at the Book Fair last week, no worries! We will still send students down to shop that have money. Just make sure the money is labeled BOOK FAIR. Thanks!
Lakeisha joins the Six-Year-Old club on Wednesday!! 

Handwriting/Writing

We are moving away from Opinion Writing and into Letter Writing! We are beginning by discussing the letters from the story Click Clack Moo Cows That Type and figuring out our own letters we would write to the characters. 

We will be discussing questions words: Who, What, Where, When, Why and How. 

Check out the youtube video of the book and practice coming up with questions for the characters with your child. 

Math

This week and next week we will be using sums of 9 and 10 to compose and decompose. Learning combinations of ten is an important building block for addition and subtraction for years to come. Knowing that 1 and 9, 2 and 8 etc make 10 will bolster your child's fluency in math especially in 2nd and 3rd grade! I have been very proud of how well the class is applying their skills to adding and subtracting. I know the extra effort at home completing homework is paying off!

Science

Space, the final frontier. I always enjoy teaching concepts of relating to space. The students get very excited about all things having to do with the sky, stars and planets. This week we will observe the day and night sky. Take time on clear evenings to check out the moon and the stars. I love hearing the students tell me their night sky observations!

Reading

Sight words for the week are: would, him, did and over. Our two Word Families are the -un and -ut family. Practice having your child make words that would belong in the families~ bun, shut, fun, hut, etc. Along with the CH- blend. Practice having your child think of words that would begin with the ch blend: chicken, chips, chapstick, etc.   Here is a slideshow I made for us to use in class. We will also be discussing words that have the long a sound thanks to "Magic/Super/Silent E!!"

 We are beginning a new Module titled Columbus and the Pilgrims. This week we will discuss Christopher Columbus and the plans he has for finding new land. We will discuss how he has the financial support of Ferdinand and Isabella, but not much from the other people. Here are links to the stories we will be reading: The Spice Seekers, Ferdinand and Isabella, 1492 and Not the Indies.