It's Been a Great Week!

Hi, Parents!  I hope you had a wonderful week!  We have been busy in 3^rd/4^th grades!  We went to the ECC on the 21^st, and had so much fun helping the preschoolers celebrate during their Flower Power party!  Thanks for all of your help!

Quick Upcoming Reminders:

*K-3, the next Young Rembrandts class starts Monday, March 27. Enrollment is open until March 26. You can enroll online at www.youngrembrandts.com/kcmo.

*4^th grade book reports (nonfiction) are due next Friday, March 31^st. 

*Track begins Tuesday, April 4^th for all 4^th-8^th graders who would like to join!  Our practice is from 3:45-5:00. 

*Trivia Night is fast approaching – April 21! We could use a few volunteers to help promote/sell tickets at the church services the next couple of weeks. Here is the link to the sign-up genius: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0c49aaa72ea6fb6-trivia. Thank you in advance for giving of your time in this way.

Religion this Week:

This week, we finished Unit 3 in our “Getting Along” series.  We have talked about how to be effective listeners and speakers, and also ways to solve disputes peacefully by being assertive, not aggressive.  We have had some super-great discussions, as well as reenacting some situations that we may face every day with our Brothers and Sisters in Christ.    We are learning so much!  

Language Arts: We learned about quotations marks this week, and how use them correctly.  We learned cursive capitals, C, D, E, and F. 

Math: 3rd graders worked with word problems this week that incorporate 2 steps.  We have also practiced working with variables.  We will be testing over this next week!  4th graders worked with factors and prime numbers, as well as equivalent fractions.   PLEASE continue working with your 3^rd or 4^th grader on their multiplication tables!  Flash cards, computer games, and just plain repetition will help.   We are headed to Winstead’s in a couple of months to celebrate those that are able to learn them all!  Just a little incentive… :)

Social Studies: We have been talking about being good citizens.  We have also learned how to read bar graphs and line graphs.  We even created one of our own as an assignment. 

Writing:  We wrote letters to our future-selves… We talked about our interests and likes right now, as well as our hopes and dreams that we hope for by the time we are 8^th graders.  This was fun!  I will hold onto these until your kiddo is in 8^th grade!  :)

P.E.-We had fun learning some track skills and participating in conditioning!

Art: We listened to “stormy” music and drew what we heard.  We are now painting these masterpieces….and will call them, Storm on a Wilderness Lake. 

Spanish: The children have been practicing so hard for their Cinco de Mayo celebration!  Their art is breathtaking, and it is fun for me to watch them learn the dances, and reciting/singing the songs in Spanish.  They are doing a great job!  There are several students that struggle with behavior in that class, so please help us remind them what the expectations are.  Thank you so much for partnering with us! 

Music: The students sounded wonderful on Sunday!  It was fun to have K-8 all singing together to praise our Lord!  In both classes, the students reviewed songs for Cinco de Mayo and the song we will be singing for graduation.  They also reviewed musical instruments with Musical Instrument Bingo!

Have a wonderful weekend! 

Blessings,

Kim