Mrs. Bzura’s News . .
2/23/11
The St. Pius School Community, strives to follow Jesus as we Study, Pray, and Serve.
Reading: We began reading Ramona Quimby, Age 8. This is such a cute story. The children are really engaged in this novel. Next week we’ll read sections 5 and 6 (pages 56-80) of the book. The children will study vocabulary words within the context of how the author uses them and continue to build comprehension skills.
Mrs. Bilinski’s group will be beginning a chapter book called Jigsaw Jones, the Case of the Missing Baseball Cards.
** Please note that since these are two different groups, grades will only be entered for assignments your child is responsible for. If your child is not reading Ramona, he/she will not show grades for assignments relating to that book. The same goes for the Jigsaw Jones book assignments. These “blank”, “ungraded” assignments will not count against your child.
Writing/English: ***If you did not do this, please do so right away. The letters will be mailed on Wednesday. Please send in the name and address of someone your child can write a friendly letter to. I will also need a blank envelope with a stamp on it in which to send the letter.
Our grammar focus this week will be on the capitalization of proper nouns.
Science: We wrap up our study of light energy by reviewing the concepts of reflection, refraction, absorption and colors this week. We’ll review the vocabulary and prepare for a test over this unit on Monday, February 28th.
Religion: Our test over chapter 9 will be on Wednesday, February 23rd. On Friday, we’ll begin chapter 10 which focuses on Mass. We’ll talk about how Mass is a celebration that we gather for in the church. We’ll compare our Mass celebration with other celebrations in our lives.
Handwriting: We continue practicing cursive writing and copying scripture this week! The children are now required to write their names in cursive and are copying their spelling words in cursive as well.
Spelling –Our focus this week will be on words from our Science and Social Studies curriculums. We’ll brainstorm the list on Wednesday and do activities with those words on Thursday and Friday. Because it is a short week, we will not be taking a traditional test on Friday.
Social Studies –This week we’ll talk about how we “got our land” and do an activity about supply & demand. We’ll also make a venn diagram comparing the settlers with the native americans.
Upcoming Dates:
2/21 and 2/22 – NO SCHOOL
2/23 – Religion test over chapter 9
2/28 – Science Test
** Pencil cases are coming home over Winter Break. Please make sure that your child has his or her OWN supply of pencils. While some of you generously sent in pencils for the class “jar”, this should not be the primary source of pencils for children.
*Book orders are available online through the 21st. Go to www.scholastic.com/bookclubs . Our activation code is GQ9YV.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Mrs. Bzura's Newsletter
Mrs. Bzura’s News
The St. Pius School Community, strives to follow Jesus as we Study, Pray, and Serve.
Reading: Again this week, some children will be going to Mrs. Bilinski’s room for
a reading group. It’s great to be able to split into smaller groups! Mrs. Bilinski’s group will continue reading Mascot’s Message from the Tales of Adventure series. My group will finish Conflict in the Clouds from Tales of Mystery.
Both groups will continue to work on retelling the story after each chapter. We’ll also revisit the phonics concepts of the “walkers”, suffixes, and syllables.
Following these stories, we’ll begin reading Ramona Quimby, Age 8.
Writing/English: Our grammar focus this week will be on using to, too and two at the proper times. Following that, we’ll continue with our study of writing friendly letters. Look for an assignment sheet to come home early next week asking for the name of a person your child can write a letter to.
Science: Our test over chapter 1 in Unit F will be on Monday. Then we’ll begin a study of light. This week in particular, we’ll learn how light reflects and refracts. This is a difficult concept for third graders. I hope to do some demonstrations to help them SEE what reflection and refraction look like.
Religion: We begin chapter 9 this week in Religion. We’ll talk about how as Catholics, we are “open to all”. That is actually what the word Catholic means. We’ll talk about how water is used in our daily lives. It is a great gift that God gave us and we rely on it daily. We’ll also talk about how water is used in the church. We’ll be looking at maps and tracing Jesus’ route from Jerusalem to Nazareth.
Next week I’ll need some magazine from which children can cut things out. If you have any old magazines you are going to throw out, please consider sending them in to school for us to use.
Handwriting: We continue practicing cursive writing and copying scripture this week! The children are now required to write their names in cursive and are copying their spelling words in cursive as well.
Spelling –Our focus this week is on the combination of the letters ea where the “walking” rule is not followed. Our spelling words for the week are: ahead, already, head, breakfast, breath, dead, heavy, instead, lead, read, ready, spread, sweater, thread and weather.
Social Studies – We continue chapter 4 – “Michigan Becomes a State” this week. In particular, we’ll look at what Tecumseh said and did to help form our state. We’ll also talk about how the fur trade continued into statehood.
Upcoming Dates:
2/7 – Science Test
2/10 – 3rd Grade Plans Mass
2/12 – Daddy Daughter Dance
2/14 – Valentine’s Day
*A class list will come home on Monday for children to address their valentines.
*Book orders are available online through the 21st. Go to www.scholastic.com/bookclubs . Our activation code is GQ9YV.
The St. Pius School Community, strives to follow Jesus as we Study, Pray, and Serve.
Reading: Again this week, some children will be going to Mrs. Bilinski’s room for
a reading group. It’s great to be able to split into smaller groups! Mrs. Bilinski’s group will continue reading Mascot’s Message from the Tales of Adventure series. My group will finish Conflict in the Clouds from Tales of Mystery.
Both groups will continue to work on retelling the story after each chapter. We’ll also revisit the phonics concepts of the “walkers”, suffixes, and syllables.
Following these stories, we’ll begin reading Ramona Quimby, Age 8.
Writing/English: Our grammar focus this week will be on using to, too and two at the proper times. Following that, we’ll continue with our study of writing friendly letters. Look for an assignment sheet to come home early next week asking for the name of a person your child can write a letter to.
Science: Our test over chapter 1 in Unit F will be on Monday. Then we’ll begin a study of light. This week in particular, we’ll learn how light reflects and refracts. This is a difficult concept for third graders. I hope to do some demonstrations to help them SEE what reflection and refraction look like.
Religion: We begin chapter 9 this week in Religion. We’ll talk about how as Catholics, we are “open to all”. That is actually what the word Catholic means. We’ll talk about how water is used in our daily lives. It is a great gift that God gave us and we rely on it daily. We’ll also talk about how water is used in the church. We’ll be looking at maps and tracing Jesus’ route from Jerusalem to Nazareth.
Next week I’ll need some magazine from which children can cut things out. If you have any old magazines you are going to throw out, please consider sending them in to school for us to use.
Handwriting: We continue practicing cursive writing and copying scripture this week! The children are now required to write their names in cursive and are copying their spelling words in cursive as well.
Spelling –Our focus this week is on the combination of the letters ea where the “walking” rule is not followed. Our spelling words for the week are: ahead, already, head, breakfast, breath, dead, heavy, instead, lead, read, ready, spread, sweater, thread and weather.
Social Studies – We continue chapter 4 – “Michigan Becomes a State” this week. In particular, we’ll look at what Tecumseh said and did to help form our state. We’ll also talk about how the fur trade continued into statehood.
Upcoming Dates:
2/7 – Science Test
2/10 – 3rd Grade Plans Mass
2/12 – Daddy Daughter Dance
2/14 – Valentine’s Day
*A class list will come home on Monday for children to address their valentines.
*Book orders are available online through the 21st. Go to www.scholastic.com/bookclubs . Our activation code is GQ9YV.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Rainbow Sentences
The third and fourth graders have learned several parts of speech. In these rainbow setnences, they put different parts of speech on different colored squares of paper to build a "colorful" sentence. Can you tell which color represents which part of speech?????
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
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