Weekly Update

Student Council Elections – September 10^th
Book Order Due – September 12^th
Fundraiser Turn-In – September 17^th
Cougar Fun Fest – October 3^rd 5:00 – 8:00 PM

Our first reading logs have been turned in (or should have been) and new ones passed out. Please encourage nightly reading.
Please help your child practice their letter writing skills by responding to them in their Family Communication Journal each weekend. These should be brought home on Friday and returned on Monday.

Our class will elect two students to represent us in Mill Creek’s Student Council.

Students will need to alert me of their intent to run and have their speeches prepared by September 10^th. That is when our class will hold elections.

We will be putting together a basket to raffle off at Cougar Fun Fest! We have not voted on a class theme yet. I will let you know once we’ve decided.

Please see below for the student blog post of the week, written by Dhanush!

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Dear families

This week we had Grandparents Day  we also read Howard .B Wigglebottom learns to listen  , How full is your bucket ,Come on rain by Karren Hesse we did our morning work we did Read by ourselves and we read with a partner we also did problem of the day and we used Our writers journal and we did math and we did our diamond poems and we did our critics corner and the power went out and we wrote about small moments in our life We also we also practiced manuscript in handwriting  we wrote about rules how to carry Laptops and we made pinch pots in art class and we made a record to say peter piper in seven seconds.



August 29th

Busy week! Look for one of the very last (if not totally last) paper newsletters in your child's Friday Folder today. Please let me know if you'd like to continue to receive a paper copy. I am planning on starting to go digital only next week and using the Blog as my main form of newsletter communication. For this week, just check out the paper copy :)

Have a wonderful three day weekend and see below for our student post!

This week's blog post brought to you by: Delaney

 

This week we had our class museum and we had birthday treats. It was a great day we got a lot of work dun.We are reading Hiede  we had a frier drill.And we made who am I posters for grandparints day  the grand parints guss who’s poster is who’s.And we got a yacker tracker. It flashes yellow as a worning and it buzes and if it flashes red if we are way to loud.Its flashed red once.we went to a asebly it was a ned show thing.she toat us yoyo trixs.The n in ned stands for never give up. The e stands for encreg others. D stands for do your best.We do morning work every morning.wealso read consenteen.it was a good book.

Important Dates

Today (August 27^th) is our fundraiser kick-off. Information will be coming home with students today.

Tomorrow (August 28^th) is our back to school assembly. It will be outside (weather permitting) so students are welcome to wear a hat and/or sunglasses and bring a towel to sit on. I’d also recommend sunscreen to be applied at home and maybe even bug spray. A reminder note will be coming home with students today.

September 1^st there is no school for Labor Day.

September 3^rd is Picture Day! Order forms are coming home in Friday Folders this week.
September 5^th is Grandparents/Special Friends day from 2:00 – 3:00 for our grade level. Please let me know if your child will not have somebody attending. We have a few volunteers from our Partners in Ed. that like to come in.

September 17^th is our fundraiser turn-in date.

First week of School

We have changed seats. It was really loud. We have started read to self, there are so many books in the library. No excuse word test had one hundred words to do. We have made locker and desk tags. They are very colorful. We have learned about thousands on how to write them. We have tried out the new playground set and it is awesome. We have met our new PE teacher coach Allen. He is really fun. We decorated our reader's notebook. We have added little books from our book orders. We made a classroom quilt that is really pretty.

By: Dani

Counting Down :)

What a summer... After a month of summer school, a week of Camp Invention, and some down time for getting my wisdom teeth out, I had a couple of weeks of true summer break. I went to a Cardinal's game, spent a day at the Lake of the Ozarks, and just relaxed around home reading. It was a nice break... but now I'm ready to get back to school! We had Back to School night last night and it was great meeting my new group of third graders! Some were familiar faces from second grade summer school last summer and some will be new friends of mine.
Not only did I meet new friends, but it was great visiting with old friends! I had a number of special visitors from last year! I will definitely miss those guys :)

If you are one of my new third grade friends, don't forget to bring a book to share that first week and be working on your Me Museum page! I can't wait to see you all again on Tuesday! I'm counting down the days...

Counting Down :(

Reminders for next week:
Students may bring a game on Monday for a Cougar Compliment Celebration (game day!) and blankets and books for Tuesday for another Cougar Compliment Celebration! 

Tuesday is our End of the Year Assembly so please put sunblock on your child before school. Students may take blankets and towels outside to sit on during the assembly. 

Thursday is the last day of school, and school will dismiss at 12:50. It is important all students are in attendance as many things will be sent home with students that day. 

Specials next week:
Monday - PE

Tuesday - Counselor
Wednesday - Art

Thursday - No Specials

Below is a summary of our week written by Sariah. 

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This week we did a lot of things.

On Monday, we weren’t at school, so I don’t have to say anything about Monday.

On Tuesday, we time to work on farmers market. We got to work on our commercials, advertising plans, and our product if we had one. It was kind of a take it easy day.

On Wednesday, we also kind of had a take it easy day. We still got to work on farmers market things, some of us made our commercials, and some of us made our product. On Thursday, we kind of did, kind of didn’t have a take it easy day. We got to do a lot of reading like the other days, and at the end of the day, we got to watch a TON of commercials, so we knew about most of the stands. And after Triple E got back, we got to write writing samples to our fourth grade teacher, kind of about us, and so they can see if we use punctuation, capital letters, ect. Friday was probably the most fun day. When we first got in, our desk were arranged for farmers market, and we had time to set everything that we had for farmers market. Then at 9:00, farmers market started. A couple people came in, and then a lot of people started coming. There were a lot of great stands in our class, and in other classes. There were places where you could get food, crafts, and play games. We got to shop from 9:10 to 9:25. And how did we get the money? We have classroom jobs, and we get a pay day at the end of the week. Sometimes we get a bonus, sometimes we get fined. But sadly, the farmers market ended around 10:00. After it was over we cleaned up, and moved our desk back to our tables. And we had to keep our extra money, because on Monday, we are having a class auction. After we did that, we ate our snack if we had one, and then Miss Baxter told us all the games we would be playing at field day. Then we got to do daily 5 choices. Then FINNALY it was field day. We started at mosquito tag, the game that some of our parents were helping at, and then we ended at Chinese soccer. By that time, we were all very tired and hot. And we were all very happy, because Mrs.Kravchick brought us all a water bottle. After we got our water, we had recess, then lunch. When we got back to the classroom, we got to read for a little bit, and now we are watching a video about the sea.

Here are all the booths from farmers market in our class:

Bookmarks and Braclets

Duct tape and more

Sparkle town café

Strike Zone

Fire vision catch and throw

Rubber-O- Mania

ARS theater league

Putting for candy

Pic-A-Drawing

CD & Ks lemonade and facepainting    

Lots of Info

Friday, May 30^th, has two big events: our Farmer’s Market and Field Day! To prepare for Farmer’s Market, we’ve been working on advertisements this week. Next week on Tuesday and Wednesday, we will have work days where students can work to prepare their goods or their booths. We will put finishing touches on Thursday because the Market will open at 9:00 on Friday! We will run the Farmer’s Market until 9:45.
Later in the morning on the 30^th, is our field day. I have two volunteers to help us run our game station (Mosquito Tag) from 11:10 – 12:25. There’s always room for more!

Mosquito Tag—A large area is marked off by cones.  Two players are it and are carrying the noodles.  When they tag a person with the noodle, that person stands still and pretends to scratch his mosquito bites.  To free a person who has been tagged, 2 other players have to form an arch over the tagged players head and say “Deep Woods Off.”  The mosquitoes (2 people who are it) can be killed. Eight players must from a line shoulder to shoulder and yell “1,2,3 “ and make a big clapping noise on 4.  If this is accomplished the mosquitoes have been killed and a new game begins or if all players are tagged the game ends.  Sometimes the game goes on for an extended amount of time, so you might have to just choose 2 new people to be it.

On Monday the 2^nd, I plan to bring in a small treat (I’m thinking donuts) to celebrate my birthday and we will also have a cougar compliment celebration of a game day. Students may bring in board games to play for a part of our day.

On Tuesday the 3^rd, our End of the Year Assembly will take place. Please make sure your child has on sunscreen. Kids may wear caps and bring blankets or towels to sit on. But the fun doesn’t stop there! We will use the blankets in the classroom for our Blanket and Book day! Kids may bring books from home and we will make forts, or sit on blankets “Picnic Style” to enjoy a fun day of reading and sharing our love of books with each other for a portion of the day. We will also have our non-referral celebration of an extra recess that day at 2:30 for students who did not go to the office during the third trimester.

The afternoon of Wednesday the 4^th, we will have another cougar compliment celebration and have a relaxing afternoon movie and popcorn. Nothing needs to be provided and kids don’t need to bring anything extra that day. Please still send backpacks as we will be slowly bringing supplies and things home.

The last day on Thursday the 5^th will be a bittersweet one. Exciting for summer, sad to say goodbye. Although it is an early dismissal day, it is still an important one! We will bringing the last of our things home and I have a small goodbye gift for each student so please make sure you plan to have your child in attendance that day.

Specials for the rest of the year:
Tuesday: PE
Wednesday: Media
Thursday: Art
Friday: No Specials

 

June 2nd: PE
June 3rd: Counselor
June 4th: Art

June 5th : No Specials

 

Below is last week's summary from Areen.

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Math

In math we have been learning how to read time. We also have been learning how to say like half past 2.

Reading

We have been reading Sisters Grimm in read allowed we are using the iPads and kindle to do todays meet. we have been doing Daily 5 choices like read to self, word work, writing but not read to partner all week.

Handwriting

We have done cursive j,x,l we did a lot of practice this week we did not really do writing we only did handwriting.

Other stuff

We had a assembly in the gym the person was really funny the story was called the little hawk learned how to fly. We had Rachel’s birthday treats she brought donuts. We are going to sign year books.