Mrs. Pfeifer's News & Notes
April 4 - 8, 2016
Here are a few things about the week ahead:
- Students should have their new prefix list in their folder (cent-, centi-, dec-, deci-) the quiz for this list will be on MONDAY, since I didn't want to send this home before the spring break. I want them to still have the same amount of time as they normally do with their list. Jacob's Ladder Poetry, A Bedtime Story, due Friday.
- Students have a letter in their folder this evening outlining upcoming events these last coming weeks of school.
- Students should bring in books, or printed out articles about their animals to complete their research at school.
- NWEA testing will take place on Thursday (2:05), Friday (12:50) and Monday (9:10). Please, if possible, refrain from early pick-ups (or late arrival on Monday) on those dates.
- This week we begin One Book, One School. We will celebrate National Poetry Month this year by reading the poetry book, Pocket Poems by Bobbi Katz and Marilyn Haffner. To kick off the event, we will have a performance from Poetry Alive!. Poetry Alive! does performances for schools by performing poetry. We will view this on Tuesday, April 5 from 2:30-3:15.
- Wednesday, April 6, Drop Everything and Read and Write Poetry Day. At 9:30, the school will drop everything and read poetry, and at 2:30, the school will drop everything and write poetry.
- Please let me know if your child would be interested in entering a poetry contest, and I would be happy to assist them with entering (this contest is through Scholastic).
This week at a glance:
Mon. Media
Tues. Music, Poetry Alive! performance
Weds. PE and Library (shoes and books), Drop Everything and Read/Write Poetry
Thurs. STEM, NWEA
Fri. Art, NWEA
Bloxtown Tour
Constructing Geometric Figures
Jump Rope for Heart
Curriculum Corners
Poetry - Figurative Language; imagery, simile, metaphor, stanza, repetition, personification
Poetry Selections
Great Depression Presentations on photo essays or diaries
Math:
Stillions~
Mon. Length (HL 10-1)
Tues. Volume of Rectangular Prisms (HL 10-2)
Weds. Weight (HL 10-3)
Thurs. Explore Weight and Volume (HL 10-4)
Fri. No math due to testing
Pfeifer~
Mon. Constructing Geometric Solids (SL 11-3)
Tues. Volume Exploration (SL 11-4)
Weds. Formula for the Volume of Rectangular Prisms (SL 11-5)
Thurs. Subtracting of Positive and Negative Numbers (SL 11-6)
Fri. No math due to testing
Writing/Grammar:
Sentence Diagramming
Mountain Language
Informational Writing (animals)
Social Studies:
Government
From the desk of Mrs. Pfeifer....
Your partner in education,
Anne Pfeifer
3rd Grade Teacher
Pleasant View Elementary School
Zionsville Community Schools
@anniedewey