Third Grade News
March/April 2016
Music Concert
Before and After
Important Dates
Wednesday, 4/6- Panera Fundraiser for Elm; 4:00pm-8:00pm (Eat in or Carry Out)
Thursday, 4/7-3rd Grade concert 7:00pm
Tuesday, 4/12-Walpole Friends of Music performance for grades 3-5; 10:15am
PAC Meeting, 7:30pm
Wednesday, 4/13- Star Lab for 3rd grade
Friday, 4/15 Early Release, 12:20pm
Monday, April 18-Friday, April 22 -April Vacation
Monday, 4/25- School wide assembly (PBIS)
Tuesday, 4/26- PARCC pm session: 3rd grade ELA
Wednesday, 4/27- PARCC pm session: 3rd grade ELA
Thursday, 4/28- PARCC pm session: 3rd grade ELA
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Spread Positivity Campaign
At Elm Street School we've started a spread positivity campaign. We have a lot of bulletin boards around the school. Every day, kids will write a positive note and put it on one of the boards. We're trying to have people focus on all of the good in life and not the bad. We love to write and to get these notes . Each student in Mrs. Rizzo´s class has a book where they put positive notes that other people gave them. We hope that this will spread and have positive vibes all over the school.
Fitness Assembly
The fitness assembly was fun because you could see the teachers doing their favorite things. The kids played games with a teacher. Sadly, not everyone got picked to play the games. Our favorite activity was the hippity hop game. In the hippity hop game you had to bounce to the other side and then you had to try to find a healthy food picture. The fitness assembly was a fun thing to watch or play.
Paragraph of the Week
Reading
Science
In science we have been learning about sound. Cars make an extremely loud sound by its engine. We have played this game where someone tries to guess the word when everyone else types an example of the mystery word. Sophie was the guesser while students typed: screaming, barking, storms, glass shattering, and more. She could not guess it so the class said the word on the count of three. Three, two, one, SOUND! She was surprised but still had a beautiful smile and laugh. This is what we have been learning about in our spare time in the classroom.
Social Studies
We learned about the Revolutionary War in our social studies book. Some of the most important people we learned about were Sam Adams, Crispus Attucks, and Paul Revere. Then the Revolutionary War took place in 1700s. It was a bloody mess. It ended in the 1770s. Many people died and some very hurt. The patriots won.
Genius Hour
Word of the Week
During word of the week Mrs. Rizzo writes a word that we are not sure of the meaning. The class guesses the meaning of the word. Then we make smaller words out of the Word of the WEEK. Some of our words are felicity and bifurcate. All of us try to get the longest word. We wonder what our next word of the week will be?
Math
In math, we have been studying geometry. We are beginning to study different types of triangles. The different triangles are acute triangles, right triangles, obtuse triangles, isosceles triangles, scalene triangles, and equilateral triangles.
We have already learned about lines. There are lines, line segments, parallel lines, intersecting lines, and perpendicular lines. You need lots of practice to understand all of the geometry terms. Even though geometry has been confusing to many people, I’m pretty sure everyone in the classroom including us and Mrs. Rizzo could say that this has been a very fun topic to learn about.