Last week of school update from Ms. Luria

Dear Families,

We have a lot of dates! Please make sure that you carefully read these dates and put them in your calendar. 

June Dates

Tuesday 10th - Talent show for 3rd - 5th grade in the AM - feel free to come and attend

Tuesday 10th - Picnic snack and special activity for departing students - please have students write cards for the members of our class that are leaving to new schools next year

Wednesday 11th - Walking field trip to Irving Park with our reading buddies - we will do field games and could use parental support - Sign up form: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0f4bafaa2ba5fb6-field1 

Thursday 12th - Clean up day! Bring a paper bag to school to help clean out lockers and the room. I could use parental help starting at 1:30 pm till the end of the day for clean up time.

Friday 13th - Last day of school year - report cards will go home this day with the students

It has been a pleasure teaching your child this year! Thank you so much for all of your support and for letting me work with your child this year.

Chinook Book: Thank you for your donations earlier this year for the Chinook Book. We used that money to buy a blog book for each student to take home as well as a to pay for Mr. Lizard. Thank you so much for your support and the ability to do these amazing things with the class. 

Rose Parade! We had a wonderful time riding the bus, playing and marching in the Jr. Rose Parade. Thank you for your support in making sure that your child was picked up had what they needed to be in the parade. We enjoyed marching between two different middle school bands. What a fun way to end the year. 

In reading we are starting our fifth and final week of 5 by 5 by 5! Ask your child what book(s) they have read this week! We just finished reading our sixth book out loud (including library time)! So, all together students have heard and read more than 11 books in the last five weeks of school. WOW! 

All together students have read over 270 books these last five weeks of school! 

Students also had the opportunity to sign up for the summer reading program. It is extremely important that your child reads a minimum of 5 books this summer! 

Please talk with your child about when they will read, what books they will read and which genres those books are in. 

In math, students finished their end of the year math test. Overall, they did wonderfully. Also, students created a plan for how they will keep their math skills strong this summer. Please ask your child to share their plan with you. It is important that they do about an hour a week of math practice to keep those skills strong. 

Students can do runmoby.com, can do ixl.com, can practice with flashcards as well as workbooks. I'll be handing out a workbook on the last day of school for students who requested one!  If you buy a workbook please make sure that the book says that it is common core aligned. 

As a general rule of thumb, if your child met the state OAKS test they should practice and review 3rd grade materials this summer. If they exceeded the OAKS test they should practice/review 4th grade materials this summer. 

For next year it will be very important that students know to type. Here is a good free site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/ 

Sacha