Third Grade News
May, 2008

Language Arts
Last week third grade celebrated Spring with a week of writing poems.  Parents can enjoy their child's creative works in Haiku, Cinquain, Shape poem, Word poem, and Limerick, during Open House on Tuesday, May 6 from 7:00 – 8:00 PM.  This week we are sharpening our writing skills by writing a Narrative paragraph.  On Friday, we will be having a reading test on our latest reading selection, The Mysterious Giant of Barletta, pp. 293-309.

Religion
Through Family Life, the students are learning the human person is a unity of body and soul.  Students are also learning to identify good expressions of affection and friendship, and to describe ways to stay safe around strangers.

Math
In Chapter 8, the students are learning about characteristics and relationships of plane and solid figures.  They will also learn about perimeter, area, and volume.

Science
Continuing our studies in Life Sciences, third grade is focusing on how living things harm themselves and others when they bring about changes in the environment.

Social Studies
Ending our studies on California Indians, we are investigating how the Europeans changed life for California Indians.

Dates to Remember

Science Fair & Open House on Tuesday, May 6

May Crowning on Friday, May 16 @ 10:00 AM

Memorial Day, no school on Monday, May 26

Multicultural Day on Tuesday, May 27

SMMS Festival begins on Friday, May 30

Happy Birthday

Maximilian Venegas   May 11                          Nicoletta Comicolo  June 4

Michael Rojas  June 18                                    Taylor Merthan  June 24

Daniel Enright  June 25                                     Kyrene Catuira  July 8

Benjamin Gutierrez   July 23                             Nathan Huerta  June 29

Lizette Palacios  July 6