Homework link, 3rd grade Nuts and Bolts about Valentine's Day and Update

Here is a link for the Homework this week:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-XD_jT3WCnNa015LUdkU0pxMVU/view?usp=sharing
If your child writes personalized Valentine's Day cards to each student with 2+ sentences per child, they are excused from the regular homework on the week.


We still need volunteers to sign up for our Valentine's Day party this Friday afternoon! Please come and help out:

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0f4bafaa2ba5fb6-valentines


Dear Families,

We had a very exciting week! Many students have new writing pieces on the blog. I encourage you to read your child's writing by clicking on their name. Students also love comments! Please write one or two sentences (including to your own child) giving encouraging words about their writing.

This week we had multiple battle for Battle of the Books. Students were all excited and enjoyed their battles. Every group will be competing again in the next round of battles.

Here is a picture of the battle brackets:

In science we have been observing an amaryllis bulb since before winter break. Every week (or few days toward the end) students have been measuring the height of the bulb. Our amaryllis bulb had three buds and was beautiful. Unfortunately it fell to the ground this week. After we got over our initial sadness about that, we dissected the flowers and made scientific sketches today. Here is an example of one of our sketches done by Eleanor.

On Friday we had an engineer come and talk with our class all about electricity, potential energy, science and many other things. Students really enjoyed the talk and learned all about engineering. Here is a fun engineering activity you can try at home with simple items found around the house:http://legacy.mos.org/discoverycenter/aotm/2011/04

Have a wonderful week!

Sacha

Here are next week's battle times:

Friday 2:30 Luria’s (Yanci, Ayla, Johnny and Tyonna) Vs. Team VELT (Bennett’s students)

All other teams have the week to STUDY, STUDY and STUDY some more!

Here is a list for the Valentine's Day cards:

Names:

Eleanor

Calub

Emmy

Valynn

Tyonna

Adah

Weston

Wren

Davis

Preston

Patrick

Curtis

Sha’Day

Bibi

Yanci

Ian

Sarah

Johnny

Ayla

Eliza

Sophia

Wallace

Kaimen

Sadie

Jesus

Heaven

Ms. Luria

Ms. Eure

Ms. Sarah