Wednesday, March 18, 2009

PJ day and AAA

Friday, March 20th is the 2 hour late start and our Arts and Academics Program-this will also be a day for students to wear their PJ's to school! Please make sure that they are clean and they still have to wear shoes!
The AAA program will be in two sessions-one in the am and one in the pm

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

March is Food Shelf Month in Minnesota. This project is in support of the United Ways effort to collect 100,000 pounds of food to be distributed in the local food shelfs.

We will collect food shelf items through March 26, 2009, in our classrooms, at which time the high school student council members will collect them from MHES.

Here are assigned food shelf suggestions to grade levels. These are only suggestions. We thought it might be fun for some to put together meal packages, "meals in a bag", so students could put all the fixings together for a family dinner.
Students can decide what they'd like to put together. Some suggestions include:

5th Grade - Spaghetti Sauce, Pasta, Cheese Container, Canned Mushrooms or tomatoes

4th Grade - Tuna, Egg Noodles, Cream Soup, Tuna Helper, Hamburger Helper

3rd Grade - Pancake Mix, Biscuit, Syrup, Pop Tarts, Coffee, Tea

2nd Grade - Chunky Soups, Soup Mix, Crackers, Canned Stews, Canned Chili

1st Grade - Toilet Tissue, Kleenex, Bath Soap, Shampoo, Personal care Items

Kindergarten - Cake Mix, Cookie Mix, Frosting, Pudding, Animal crackers

This is not an all inclusive list. All Non Perishable Food items are welcome. There are no restrictions on donations and a student's grade level. Financial donations will also be accepted.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Book Orders

Book Orders went home on Monday and will be due the following Monday, March 9th.

You can now order online with a credit or debit card and the books get delivered to MHES and I get them to your child!
It is easy, just follow the directions below:

1-log in to www.Scholastic.com/parentordering

2-type in our class user name: 3MMM

3-type in the password: MMMM

(the M's should be all capital)
Happy shopping!
Let me know if you can not get to it!

Monday, March 2, 2009

Study Island

Keep up the great work on study island! Make sure to do the math and reading.

End of 2nd trimester

This Friday we will be having an end of the trimester party!
Students can bring in a board game and a treat for themselves.

Project

Students checked out a biography and are going to read it to find out what makes the person they read about worthy of getting a book written about them. We are studying characteristic traits and then they will be teaching their classmates about the person they read about.

Math

Students are continuing to practice math facts.

We are in the middle of Unit 8 -FRACTIONS

3rd graders should know:

- how to shade in parts of a set
-put fractions on a number line
-what is one whole and then the fraction of it
-how to write fractions
-equivalent fractions

DO YOU KNOW WHAT A HIDATO IS? TRY GOOGLING IT AND SEE IF YOU AND YOUR 3RD GRADER CAN FIGURE THEM OUT! GOOD LUCK!