God's Most Amazing Creatures...: Have a BLESSED Easter!

Hi, 3^rd/4^th Grade Parents! Happy Holy week! Can you believe that Easter is already almost here?! Can you believe it is already April?! Goodness, gracious!

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Here is what we have learned this week:

Religion- This has been such a beautiful week for us, as we have learned about the events of Holy Week. We discussed Palm Sunday, Jesus in the temple, Maundy Thursday, the Lord’s Supper, the Garden Gethsemane, Peter Denying Jesus, and Jesus’ Crucifixion. We read straight from God’s Word and also watched some wonderful reenacting of these verses. The students colored a Holy Week book, which we will finish up on Tuesday. Today, we discussed Good Friday, and while the conversations we had were emotional, we know that Jesus did not stay dead for us! He has risen indeed! Alleluia!

“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” ~1 Peter 1:3

The kiddos asked that I share this video with you:

“Watch the Lamb” by Ray Boltz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odJLH-ViVZA

Memory for next week:

4/6-Beautiful Savior,

Lord of the nations,

Son of God and Son of Man!

Glory and honor,

Praise, adoration,

Now and forevermore be Thine!

4/9-The 23rd Psalm

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He makes me lie down in green pastures.

He leads me beside still waters.

He restores my soul.

Language Arts- This week, we had a whole-class literature study of Roald Dahl’s book, “Esio Trot.” We loved hearing about Mr. Hoppy’s funny antics, as he tried to win the affections of Mrs. Silver! We had a lot of giggles in here! 4^th graders shared their nonfiction book reports and windsock projects. Students also received information about upcoming 4^th quarter book reports this week. All students will be reading a biography and we will be working on our projects in class! The book report portion of the book report will be completed at home, and the project, we will be working on at school. These will be due May 10^th. We will need large brown paper bags for this, if you have any that you would be willing to donate! Thank you!

Spelling words for Friday, April 9^th:

3rd Grade: Dog-of-the-Sea Waves

unfold, rejoin, untie, reheat, unfair, unclear, repaid, rewrite, unhurt, recheck, unlucky, unwrap, reuse, unsure, unbuckle, unknown: Challenge: fatigue

4th Grade: Owen and Mzee

hundred, supply, single, middle, explain, surprise, pilgrim, sandwich, instead, complete, monster, settle, address, farther, sample, although, turtle, athlete, orchard, kingdom, fortress, instant; Challenge: fatigue

Math- Third graders finished up Chapter 8 and tested over the Commutative Property and related facts. They began working with multiply 3 facts this week! Fourth graders tested over Chapter 7, which included patterns, sequencing, rules, and equations. Next week, they will begin fractions!

Science-We discussed ENERGY this week! We reviewed food chains and food webs, wrote stories about them, and then created Meal Rewind art that shows what food groups our lunches are from, and whether these foods are consumers or producers. These are all construction paper pizzas, and are so very cool (and yummy!)