Upcoming Events:
Wednesday March 30 Oregon Trail Dress Up Day and All Day Out & About - Chaperones Needed
Friday April 1 All School Meeting and Pajama Day
Friday April 8 No School- Grading/Staff Development Day
Homework will be due on Thursday, March 28th:
Each week, homework is the following 3 parts:
1. Writing:
- Reading Response Letter in Writer's Notebook. Parents! Please take a look at the Directions for completing the Reading Response Letter (these can also can be found inside the front cover of the writing notebook.) Sentence starting ideas can be found on the last page of the notebook.
- NEW WRITING HOMEWORK OPTION: Students can TYPE their reading response and email it to:
[email protected] Title: Student Name/ Date - Students can get valuable keyboarding practice by typing their reading response letter each week. Please continue to proofread the letter and give feedback to your young writer. I recommend that students use Word or Pages to type/edit/save their work, and then cut and paste the finished response into the email. As you observe your kiddo typing, you will know if they need more "home-row" typing support. There are many free typing programs out there. Here are a few games/ websites to check out:
- http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/keyboarding_games.html
- http://www.abcya.com/kids_typing_game.htm
- https://www.typing.com/typinggames
2. Reading: Read for at least 20 minutes every night- track at home
3. Math: Complete at least 30 minutes of math practice per week-(more is recommended)
Suggested IXL skills for 3rd grade math practice:
- F.7 - F.9 Multiply by 6, 7 and 8
- W.1 - W.2 Identify equal parts
- Family Letter about 3rd grade multiplication goals
- Multiplication activities to try at home
Suggested 4th grade math practice:
- March 10-17th Math Homework Worksheet Packet: page 1 & page 2
- Multiplication & Division Skills Practice on Khan Academy
- Practice saying multiples (skip-counting) for numbers 2-12
Upcoming Out and About
This week, we will be getting our wagon teams ready for a Pioneer Day celebration that will take place at the AT Smith House, on Wednesday, March 30th, from 11:00-2:00pm.
We hope that some parents will be able to join us for a day of butter-churning, square-dancing and old fashioned fun! We will walking to Rogers Park at 10:30 am, and will be taking a bus from there to the AT Smith House. Parents are encouraged to meet at the AT Smith House at 11am (but are welcome to meet us at the school at 10:30 am to walk and ride the bus with us).
Talk to your Puffin about how Pioneers might have dressed, and what types of foods they would have brought for lunch. We encourage students to dress the part that day!
We would also like to thank the Friends of Historic Forest Grove for generously collaborating on this unit's Out and Abouts. Please consider donating to this organization. They are requesting in-kind donations of historical artifacts pertaining to this region, and dating to 1940 or before. Contact the Old Train Station Manager Don Skinner, [email protected], if you have an artifact you would like to donate or loan the museum.
Volunteer Opportunities
Out & About Chaperone - Join us on March 30th for Pioneer Day at the historic AT Smith House! We will extra adults to supervise rotating stations.