3rd Grade News
Ms. Ramsey's Weekly Newsletter April 15, 2016
Welcome to FSAPS Alex :)
On field trip day, your child will need to wear their RED FSA uniform polo shirt. We will be leaving promptly at 8:15 to make sure we get there on time, so please make sure your child is at school before 8 AM. Thanks!
Summer Skills Workbooks
Offered by Schools
Purchased by Parents
Benefitting Students
Many parents are looking for helpful tips for their child to stay on top of their academics over the summer. The Summer Skills books are three different series of review books (math, language arts, and foreign language) for students from pre-k through high school. Each grade level book helps students maintain their academic skills over the summer months. If you are looking for something to help your child review and stay sharp over the summer, please consider ordering these Summer Skills Workbooks for your FSAPS child. Orders should be turned in to me no later than Friday, April 22nd.
Earlier this week, Ms. P sent an email with information and a copy of the order form. This Parent Letter/Order Form is also coming home with your child. For our class, you can purchase a language arts and/or a math skills workbook for your child for $19.00 each. If you are interested, please indicate which subjects you would like to order for your child on the order form and send it in by Friday, April 22nd. Checks should be made out to FSAPS. You should be ordering the grade level they have completed this year – this will serve as a fantastic review of the skills they have learned this year and make sure they are ready for the beginning of the next school year. These orders will arrive to the school in May and we will distribute them to the students before the summer break!
For more information, details, and samples about each book - please visit the following website: http://www.summerskills.com/
Please contact Ms. P at cprzedpelski@fultonscienceacademy.org if you have any questions!
FSA Cultural Cafe
You and your family are invited to the 2016 Cultural Cafe on Sunday, April 17th from 4:00-7:00pm. This is a night where you will enjoy exploring the diverse cultures represented at FSA through a showcase of countries, homemade food, and a student led talent show. Families are asked to participate by sharing a dish that represents your heritage, and students are welcome show off their talents and abilities in the talent show. Please see the SignUp Genius links below to volunteer your culinary skills, talents and help for the evening.
Cultural Cafe Volunteer Sign-Up
Cultural Cafe 2016 Talent Show Signup
This is one of our favorite events of the year and we look forward to seeing you there! Dress Down Opportunity on April 19 if your child attends.
END OF YEAR PROJECTS
Instead of giving weekly homework for the remainder of the year, Mrs. Houston and I have organized some creative projects! We believe this will help students learn the content in a more engaging way. Of course Students have to read, comprehend, and write in all the projects so they are still practicing important skills! If you have any questions, please see FSA connect. If you still have questions, you may email me :) HAVE FUN!!!
April 26: Create Your Own Business Project Due
April 29: Cereal Box Book Report Due
May 2: Solar System Tic-Tac-Toe Project Due
May 6: Create Your Own Alien Project Due
Cereal Book Reports due April 29!
Solar System Tic-Tac- Toe
Create Your Own Alien Project
COMING UP
April 17: Cultural Café
April 18: Tellus Field Trip (Grades K-3)
April 19: Cultural Cafe Dress Down day
April 21: Earth Day and Big Canyon Balloon Visit
April 22 : Summer Skills Forms due
April 26: Economics Test (Chapter 7 in My World) and Create Your Own Business Project Due
April 28- 29: Unit 5 Benchmark for Reading and ELA
April 29: Cereal Box Book Report Due
May 2: Solar System Tic-Tac-Toe Project Due
May 5: STEAM Day
May 6: Create Your Own Alien Project Due
May 6-12: MAP Testing
May 13 – 19: ITBS testing
May 25: Last Blast Carnival
May 26: Last Day of School/ Award Ceremonies
CURRICULUM CORNER
Reading and Language Arts: Unit 5, Week 5
Comprehension: Author’s Purpose, Background Knowledge
Phonics: Suffixes -y, -ish, -hood, -ment
Writing: Personal Narrative
Conventions: Conjunctions
Vocabulary : Greek and Latin Week 8
Social Studies: Chapter 7: Economics
Vocabulary: needs, wants, scarcity, abundance, opportunity, cost, value, producer consumer, goods, services, producer, consumer, human rescource, capital resource, profit, trade, barter, supply, demand, free market, import, export, credit, credit card, savings, bank, interest, deposit, loan, budget, specialization divison of labor, interdependence
Science: Chapter 9: Energy and Its Forms
Lesson 1: What are some forms of energy
Lesson 2: How does energy change form?
Lesson 3: How do light and matter interact?
Lesson 4: What are heat and light energy?
Lesson 5: What is sound energy?
Lesson 6: What is electrical energy?
STUDY ISLAND
SYMBALOO EDU RESOURCES
Below are some more Symbaloo links for your child!
Mrs. Houston and I's 3rd grade Resources
http://edu.symbaloo.com/shared/AAAAAwQrGCQAA41_WBN4jg==
Reading/Spelling
http://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/reading-spellingsymbaloo
Elementary Science Resources
http://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/elementaryscience2
Elementary Math
http://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/elementarymath1
Grades 3-5 Resources
http://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/3-5-sites
Another Teacher's symbaloo that is excellent!!
REDBIRD (OLD EPGY)
Ms. Chelsea Ramsey
Fulton Science Academy Private School
Serving Advanced and Gifted Students
Email: cramsey@fultonscienceacademy.org
Location: 3035 Fanfare Way, Alpharetta, GA, United States
Phone: 678- 366-2555
UNGIFTED
Quick Summary:
The word gifted has never been applied to a kid like Donovan Curtis. It's usually more like Don't try this at home. So when the troublemaker pulls a major prank at his middle school, he thinks he's finally gone too far. But thanks to a mix-up by one of the administrators, instead of getting in trouble, Donovan is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction (ASD), a special program for gifted and talented students.
It wasn't exactly what Donovan had intended, but there couldn't be a more perfect hideout for someone like him. That is, if he can manage to fool people whose IQs are above genius level. And that becomes harder and harder as the students and teachers of ASD grow to realize that Donovan may not be good at math or science (or just about anything). But after an ongoing experiment with a live human (sister), an unforgettably dramatic middle-school dance, and the most astonishing come-from-behind robot victory ever, Donovan shows that his gifts might be exactly what the ASD students never knew they needed.