Hello Everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful spring break. I would have liked it to be a bit warmer, but the weather is finally starting to cooperate! We have less than two months of school, but we have a lot going on! The Spring Music Festival is coming up on April 19th. I am super excited to see it, I've heard it is going to be awesome this year. I sent a note home in Friday Folders from PTA about volunteers for this night. We really need some more volunteers for the reception that follows the music festival. If the PTA does not get at least 4 volunteers, they will have to cancel that post-show reception. The School Carnival is also coming up. That is going to be on April 26th. The students are super excited about this. A note went home with the oldest child in each family asking for volunteers for this event. Along that same line, the PTA has organized for each grade level to make donations for raffle baskets that will be raffled off at the carnival. The 3rd grade theme is sports and other outdoor activities. I have only had a few students bring in donations, so I am hoping for a few more. Every donation will help to raise money to support our amazing PTA.

The Week Ahead
English: A note went home in Friday Folders explaining that we will be having a test over capitalization and punctuation on Tuesday. We will review in school, but I am expecting students to study at home as well. On Wednesday we will begin a poetry unit.
Math: We will learn to identify the properties of parallel lines, identify properties of quadrilaterals, identify perpendicular lines and line segments, add money amounts to $99,999.99, act out, draw pictures, and write number sentences for division story problems, and write number sentences for division story problems.
Reading: We will be reading a story called, Alejandro's Gift. We will also practice finding evidence from the text, identifying beginning, middle, and end of a story, and working on using context clues to figure out the meaning of a new word.
Science: We will start a unit about space.

Please feel free to contact me at bcalcott@orionschools.us with any questions or concerns. You can also leave me a voicemail by calling the school (ext. 1332). Enjoy the beautiful weather!