God's Most Amazing Creatures...: Happy Weekend!

Hello, parents! It has been a great, FULL week! ;)

*It was so wonderful to see so many of you at the auction last Saturday! Thank you for your generosity and donations! We made a net a profit of $38, 889! Praise the Lord for all of His blessings!

*During Chapel on Wednesday, the final raffle tickets were drawn, and the Frye family won the Classroom Movie Day for us! THANK YOU! Yay! I thought I would save this and use it as a celebration at the end of our achievement testing week…So, we will have our Movie Day on Friday, March 19^th!

*Thank you also for your generous gifts to support the leukemia society mission project. As a school, we collected over $1000! Our class raised $232.40!

*Standardized Testing week will occur the week of March 15-19. We ask that you avoid scheduling any appointments for the week. More details to come. Homeschoolers are invited to participate. Please just let us know if you will, so preparations can be made. (I will let you know of the schedule beforehand.)

*Student-Led conferencing will take place March 25^th and 26^th. We will have a 1:00 dismissal both days (there will be aftercare). Here is the sign-up that I had designed previously. I changed the dates. If you need to change your date and time, please feel free to do so. Thanks for “going with the flow” of things! If you are uncomfortable meeting here at school, I will prepare your child to share his or her student-led conference with you at home. I will not need to be present.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0c4dadab2da7f58-1stquarter

Here is what we have been up to this week:

Religion-This week, we discussed Baptism, Confirmation, and why God gives us the Lord’s Supper.

Memory for next week:

3/2-

Sing Alleluia! Amen!

Let your prayers and your praises ascend.

Lift up your voices and sing to our Lord God, our Savior, our King!

Here brought together by grace, we are gathered as friends in this place.

3/5-

And assembled as one, in the name of the Son,

lifting hearts, lifting hands, celebrating as friends,

and proclaiming the Lord, all our praises afford.

We are brothers and sisters in Christ.

Language Arts-This week, we read the story of Cendrillon, which is an island version of Cinderella. We had a lot of fun comparing versions of Cinderella, using Venn diagrams. We have learned cursive capital letters A, C, O, and U.

Spelling Words for next Friday, March 5^th:

3rd grade words (from Aero and Officer Mike)horse, mark, storm, market, acorn, artist, March, north, barking, stork, thorn, forest, chore, restore, partner, fortune, *centenarian

4th Grade words (from The Life and Times of the Ant)turkey, lonely, colony, steady, hungry, valley, hockey, starry, melody, movie, duty, drowsy, chimney, plenty, daily, alley, fifty, empty, injury, prairie, envy, fiery, *centenarian

Math-Third graders finished up their Chapter 7, over multiplication and division. They are all doing well memorizing their facts! Keep practicing those at home! Fourth graders have MASTERED long division, and I am SO proud of them! We will test on Monday.

Social Studies-This week, we have learned all about the southwest United States and have learned how to use the skis of finding addresses using latitude and longitude lines. We also learned all about aqueducts, oil drills, and the Dust Bowl this week. We will review for the test early next week, and then play Jeopardy as a class review. The test will be on Wednesday, March 3^rd. Here is the link to Social Studies Jeopardy:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AGPtPUyKbpeh7wjegvU6T_gNxBT8HBZ34c7EOiYV7Sw/edit?usp=sharing

Happy studying!

Specials:

Art-This week, we learned about the artist Georges Rouault. We learned how to double-load a brush, and paint in the style that looks like stained glass.