3rd Grade News
Ms. Ramsey's Weekly Newsletter March 25, 2016
1. Homework Packets
2. School Store is open!
3. Box tops
4. Elementary Picnic
Your family is invited for students and parents in Pre-K thru 3rd grade to celebrate the hard work of our students this year! We have decided that Wednesday, March 30 between 4:45pm and 7:00pm will be the best date and time to have this spring family picnic due to weather
FSAPS teachers will prepare barbecue chicken, hot dogs, veggie options and salad.
We kindly ask parents to bring the following according to their last names:
- A to K - Drinks
- L to Z - Deserts and Fruits
We will have some fun activities as well. The location will be Istanbul Center:
591 N Main St Suite 100, Alpharetta, GA 30009
Please bring all family members.
See you on Wednesday!
5. 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!
6. FSAPS guidelines regarding communicable illness
1. The student should remain at home until being symptom free for 24 hours. This means that your child may not return to school until 24 hours from their last vomiting or diarrhea episode.
2. If the student experiences a fever during an illness, they should be “fever free” for 24 hours without the use of fever reducing medication before returning to school.
3. If the diagnosis is strep throat, the student should remain at home for 24 hours after starting the first dose of antibiotic treatment.
4. During any communicable illness, the student should be symptom free and fever free for 24 hours before returning to school. If your child has the flu, they should provide a doctor's note stating they can return to school.
Helpful Tips to Staying Healthy:
1. Frequent hand washing is the best way to prevent and combat the spread of germs. Emphasize hand washing to your children before meals and before preparing food, after using the bathroom, when returning home from school, after playing outside, after being around someone that is sick, after sneezing, coughing, or blowing your nose, and after playing with animals.
2. Get plenty of rest, drink lots of water, and eat healthy foods
3. Avoid people that sick and stay home when you are sick
4. Disinfect surface that are prone to germs (ex. phones, keyboards, door knobs, toothbrushes)
5. Immunizations like the flu mist or shot
We appreciate your assistance and consideration of others during times when your student is not feeling well and may be contagious to others. Thank you for your help in keeping our students healthy!
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.
COMING UP
March 28: St. Baldrick's Donation Dress Down Day
March 29: Pi Day Winner Dress Down Day- CONGRATS TANISH!
March 30: FSA Elementary Picnic 4:45-7:30
March 31: Last AR and Reflection Logs due :)
April 4-8: Spring Break
April 12: March AR Dress down day....and Ms. Ramsey's birthday!
April 17: Cultural Café
April 18: Tellus Field Trip (Grades K-3)
April 21: Earth Day and Big Canyon Balloon Visit
May 5: STEAM Day
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 3
Comprehension: Sequence
Phonics: Vowel Patterns —a au, aw augh, ou, ough
Writing: Personal Narrative
Conventions: Adverbs
Social Studies: 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: Review all Chapter 6 lessons, Test Friday
1- Water Cycle
2- Weather and Climate
3- Rocks and Minerals
4- Soil types and layers
5- Landforms on Earth's surface and how they form
6- Weathering and Erosion
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