Hello Everyone!
We had some pretty neat lessons this week. On Thursday we had a 3rd grade assembly presented by Dave from the Wilderness Classroom. He just finished a 3 year adventure that started in Washington state, went north into Canada, came around down the eastern coast of the U.S., and ended up in Florida! He traveled this entire adventure by kayak, canoe, and dogsled. He showed us many pictures and videos of the amazing things he saw. He even brought in a kayak for us to see. We are excited to find out what his next adventure will be! On Friday we started learning a little about fossils, and we had a chance to pretend to be paleontologists. The students learned that digging up fossilized dinosaur bones is a tough job that can take a very long time.

Field Trip
Hopefully you noticed the green field trip form in your child's Friday Folder. We will be going to the Wapsi in Dixon, IA on May 16th. Please send the signed permission slip to school as soon as possible. If you would like to come on the field trip, there was a white sheet of paper that had a fox on it in Friday Folders that needs to be sent to school by Wednesday, May 8th.

Space Project
Just a friendly reminder that all space projects are due by Friday, May 10th. If your child finishes their project early, feel free to send it in before Friday.

The Week Ahead
English: We will continue our unit on pronouns. In writing, we are working on sentence fluency.
Math: We will learn to write tenths using common and decimal fractions, measure to the nearest tenth of a centimeter, work backwards to solve a problem, find the volume of a rectangular prism, identify the factors of a number, and identify prime numbers less than 20.
Reading: Since we have finished the anthology, we will start a chapter book called, What's Cooking, Jenny Archer? Each student have a copy of the book to use, and I will be assigning certain chapters to the students. I am planning on having the students read the first four chapters this week. We will also be having a spelling test this week. The list went home in Friday Folders.
Science: We will learn about the different types of landforms.
Social Studies: Last week the students started working on product maps. This week they will finish making their product maps, and present them to the class.

I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend! Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.