A Pickett’s Mill Pirate is:
Prepared Inquisitive Responsible And Totally Engaged
WE WON! Congratulations to our Treasured Third Graders for having 100% of participation in the Relay for Life 110 cent challenge. We will be rewarded with a popcorn and soda celebration on Friday of this week.
Woohoo our class had 100% participation in Jump Rope for Heart and we just love our Jump Rope for Heart shirts! Look for pictures to be posted soon.
CURRICULUM CONNECTION:
Writing EQ: What are the elements of persuasive writing? How do I use it to convince someone of my position? How do I write to persuade an audience?
We will begin our next writing unit on Tuesday. We will read several books such as Hey Little Ant, Earrings, I Wanna Iguana, and Dear Mrs. LaRue to help us learn about persuasive writing. Students will write their own response without help. They must be able to pre-write, write, revise, edit, and publish. This will be scored by the state writing rubric.
When You Write to Persuade…
Organize ideas about the topic before you start to write.
Think about the form, audience, topic, and purpose for writing.
Know your position and your reasons for taking that position.
Use polite, convincing and powerful language.
Reread, Reflect and Evaluate your writing.
Revise and Proofread your work.
Sort 22: Word endings –y, -ey, -ie
Bonus Words: President's Day, persuasive, measurement
|
fifty |
body |
honey |
cookie |
try |
|
ready |
plenty |
jockey |
goalie |
sky |
|
angry |
empty |
chimney |
pinkie |
pretty |
|
every |
money |
hockey |
rely |
hungry |
Math EQ: What relationships can be found within the metric system of measurement? What relationships can be found within the customary system of measurement?
This week we'll continue our measurement unit by looking at customary and metric units of measure. We will practice comparing units of measure. For example, 3 feet is larger than 12 inches....
Some sites to explore: Practice measurement by playing jeopardy
http://www.isd12.org/gle/jeopardy/jeopardy-mathmeasurement_files/frame.htm
The Best Interactive Site with loads of games for Time & Measurement
Social Studies EQ: What are Human, Natural and Capital Resources? What is an entrepreneur? We will learn about the 4 types of productive resources.
natural resource –things from Earth that people can use
human resource-people working to make goods and services
capital resource-resources that are used to make goods and services
entrepreneurship-characteristic of people who take the risk to organize resources
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In your child’s binder you will see an At Home Science Project. Children will use a shoe box to create a physical display of their animal and its habitats. Think about what your habitat and animal looks like and the plants that live there. This project is due Monday, February 27th. Please begin with the end in mind when having your child work on this project.
Beginning With the End in Mind
February 20 - President's Day Holiday/No School
February 24 - 3-5 Science Fair Projects Due
February 24 - Bingo Night
February 24 - Six Flags Reading Forms Due to media center
February 27 - March 1 - 3rd Nine Weeks Benchmark Testing (Language Arts & Math)
March 2 - Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss / School-wide Pajama Day
March 8 - PICTURE DAY
March 14 - End of 9 week grading period
March 21 - Report Cards Go Home
March 28 Kindergarten Registration
April 2 through 8 - SPRING BREAK
April 12 - PTA - Kindergarten Program
April 18-27 - CRCT Testing
April 30 - Volunteer Brunch
May 9 - Field Day for 3 - 5
May 10 - Field Day for K - 2
May 14 - Career Day
May 23 - 24 - EARLY RELEASE HOURS
May 24 - Last Day of School
June 4 - Report Cards Mailed
