Happy Summer!

What a year in 3G! I am so sorry it was not exactly what I had planned. I wish I could have been there the entire school year. I do have to admit this group of kids pulled together and worked as a team/family like I have never seen before. I believe that in my absence they became closer and grew up maybe just a bit more than a typical classroom in a year, a positive. I'd like to think so. As a class, they were such a kind and caring group. Despite all of the ups and downs, they learned so much, laughed and cried together, gained confidence and much more. I am sad to see them move on, but happy for all of the progress they have made and anxious for what the future will bring for each of them. Please know that I will always be interested in what they do and become.

I wish you all a fun filled and safe summer. Feel free to email me and let me know of your adventures. I plan on reading, cooking, working in my garden and spending time in the sunshine. My husband and I and Dune head up to our family summer home on Lake Michigan most weekends where we meet and relax on the beach with my extended family.

Take care and thank you for a wonderful year and your positive support throughout it!
Sue

Busy Busy

3G is really working hard trying to fit everything in that we want to complete these last few weeks! The country reports/posters have been awesome! It is so incredible to see how grown up these kids have become. The menu of choices for their presentations has opened up many opportunities for the children to shine and they have! Our power points of our countries are about finished and we will view those all at once next week.

We are all reading the book, The Chocolate Touch, together and learning much about chocolate along the way. Our spelling words this week are all from the book and the list was generated from the first 4 chapters that we have completed. The vocabulary has been challenging for us! A fun way to spend our literacy block.

In writing we are working on conventions, something that all of the class knows the basics of, but can use a refresher. It really helps them when proofreading.


Lots to do in a short time...I am getting nervous now and we need every minute together.
Mrs. G.

Language arts

This week in language arts we did a lot of things with spelling. One of the things we did was spell words with crayons which is called rainbow words. We also put each word in groups depending on how many syllables were in the word. We also wrote about our most memorable day which could be good or bad and read about celebrations.







Eddie Jacquia and Jacob

LMC

During LMC time we learned how to use the smart board. All of the classes will have one next year. We picked out a book to keep from the recycle to read books. 3G did a research on countries. Some parents came in to help us. Today we will be bringing home some information about our countries and the posters and projects that are due May 11th.
written by Lexie and Kyle

SPECIAL SCOOP

3G HAS SOME NEW NEWS IN SPECIAL SCOOP!
We have a new student named Jonathan! He moved here from Alabama.
Tonight is the spring fling.! Please come.
We also had an assembly. The chorus sang, the choir chimes played and the guitars played.
By the way, the Spring Fling is Fri.24,2009.
In P.E. we have been doing fitness testing. We had to run one half of a mile!

by:Caity, Katie, Emma

Math

In 3G math we are learning about areas of squares,polygons,and triangles. There are formulas to each one. We also learned how to find the perimeter of a shape.
In 3H math we are learning about lattice and partial products when you do multiplications problems.
In 3M math we are also learning about lattice and partial products methods multiplication.


by:ANNA,CAILYN,SHEALYN!!!

SCIENCE

We are learning about simple machines like levers,pulleys,gears,inclined planes,and wheel and axles.Our review is on Monday the 27th of 2009 and our test is on Friday May 1.We have so much work our science folders are overflowing!!!

Written by:Adam,Ben,Parker