January 29, 2015

Dates to Remember

Feb. 2        Mike Thaler Author visit - Wear yellow!        

Feb. 6        Mixon-Fincher Celebration 8:15-9:00 in your child's classroom

Feb. 10      Chapel - 3rd grade leads! Please plan to join us at 12:00 in the Fine                  Arts Auditorium.

Feb. 16-17  Holidays! No school!

Feb. 20      Capitol Field Trip to Atlanta (See note in today's papers)

Feb. 24      Chapel 
Feb. 26      Biography Book Reports due (See note in below and in today's                          signed papers)

Field Trip News

Check your calendars to see if you are available to accompany us to Atlanta to visit the Capitol building. We will leave FPD by 8:00 and return by carpool. Students will travel by bus, and parents will follow in cars. We have lots of special, interesting activities planned for this year's trip. You won't want to miss it! (You will also LOVE eating at the Varsity with 49 3rd graders.) See note in today's papers to sign up.

Third Quarter AR goal came home in last week's signed papers. Students should pass 6 A.R. tests before March 13th. The six books must include one biography and one chapter book which must be pre-approved by your child's teacher. The four other AR tests may be over storybooks or chapter books of the students choice. 
MULTIPLICATION TIMED TEST EVERY TUESDAY! BE SURE TO PRACTICE FOR 10 MINUTES EVERY DAY!
During the first half of the year, we have been developing skills with multiplication and division facts.  Unit Seven continues these systematic skills and extends factors to multiples of 10, 100 and 1000.  Knowing the basic facts as reflexes, without having to figure them out is an essential prerequisite for future developing objectives.  We are so impressed with the progress of our students!
Biography book report info is in this week's signed papers. Projects are due Thursday, February 26. We will be reading a biography about famous presidents in class, practicing taking notes, and compiling a "Top Ten List" together in class.  We will begin reading another great biography next week about the life George Washington Carver.
We are wrapping up our Native American unit in Social Studies and are now officially experts on all things Native American!. Next up is a study about Georgia history and government, just in time for our trip to the Capitol!
Our States of Matter unit in Science is so cool. This week we are reviewing key vocabulary terms and identifying physical properties

of matter.