Final Week of May

• Time to celebrate this weekend as we have our Assessments complete!!! Everyone had another fabulous week and defiantly gave them 100% of their best effort. I am VERY VERY PROUD of them all!!! 
• THANK YOU to Colby's Mom who took in the tastiest Double Chocolate Cookies I have ever had to celebrate completing our assessments. They were a great treat and terrific way to celebrate!
• Today a different food order form was sent home for Wednesday's Lunch. To support Tim Horton's Camp Day, the children can order a hot dog  fries, juice and tidbits for $3.00. All orders are due on Monday and there will be no Home and School Lunch this Wednesday.
• For our end of year trip we are headed to Shining Waters on Friday, June 21st, with a rain date of Monday, June 24th. If anyone is available on those dates and would like to join us please email me or send in a note. 
• There are still a handful of people left to pay their School Supply Fee for next year. If you could send that in whenever you can that would be greatly appreciated.   
• We started our final class novel of the year this week. We are already 3 Chapters into Charlotte's Web. It is always a favorite, so I am sure you will be hearing about what is happening with Fern, Wilbur and Charlotte over the next few weeks. We will mainly be reading it in school, as it can be a challenging read to do independently. Some nights the children might choose to re-read a chapter we have done in school or they can be reading something different of their choosing.
• Today we also started work on Reader's Theater. We did "Click Clack Moo" together as a class and next week we will be dividing into two groups to do "The 3 Billy Goats Gruff" and "Chicken Little". So I am sure you will be seeing the scripts around home as we are planning to present them later in June to our Kindergarten Buddies. 
• This week we will be wrapping up our unit on Data Management  all the students seem to really have enjoyed it and love surveying each other. The only Math Outcomes we have left to cover are Fractions (Which are pretty basic in Grade 3). Then for the last  2 weeks of the year we will be doing a Cumulative Review of as many outcomes as possible that we have covered through out the school year.
• All this talk of getting close to the end makes me so sad. I LOVE Summer, but I really hate saying Good-Bye to "my kids". I have gotten so attached to them that it is hard to let them move on. I have a pretty special bunch this year who I am amazed at how much they have grown and matured throughout the year. The last couple of weeks there have been a number of times when someone as had a "Remember when..." story from earlier in the year and it seems like we have been together for a lot longer than eight and a half months. 

Enjoy the Long Weekend

• Well obviously the biggest part of our week last week was the Assessments and I could not be prouder of how much attention and effort the students have put into them. If they keep that up next week everyone will have accomplished their goal of displaying all of their best work.
• This coming week the Assessments will follow the same format as this past week with the students doing their Writing Assessment on Wednesday morning and their 2 Reading Comprehension Assessments on Thursday.
• A huge Thank You to Krista Murphy who took in muffins, fruit and juice on both Wednesday and Thursday mornings to fuel the kids bodies and minds right before they did their assessments. Everything was delicious and very much appreciated. 
• There will be No School Monday due to the holiday. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend with your Families.

Literacy Assessment Week

•  The students will write their Writing Assessment on Wednesday morning of this week and they will have 2 Reading Comprehension Assessments on Thursday. It would be wonderful if everyone could write them on those days, but if they are sick they will write them when they return to school. Remember there will be no homework this week.
• A Very Happy Birthday to Claire, who turns 9 Tomorrow! I hope you have a wonderful day!
• A Very Happy Mother's Day to all of you Outstanding Moms. Your children love you so much and it is obvious that they get lots of love and support from You.I hope everyone had a chance to visit the Journal Pioneer Website to see the Mother's Day entries. Also keep an eye out for Saturday's Journal, as some might appear in it. Unfortunately, Jeanna's letter did not get submitted so I have added her note about Ann Marie to the end of this post.

I have the most perfect mom in the world. She loves me so so much and I love her just as much- maybe a little bit more. She cares about me so much I can't tell you how thankful I am to have her as a mom! My mom has one goal... and that's to make me better and help me at whatever I love to do. My mom is really sweet she's like half cake or ice cream, or something and then half human. My point is I love my mom and no one can change that!

By  Jeanna

Music Festival Week

• Sorry for no post last week, but my family and I were hit with that Plague of a Flu that many of you also experienced first hand. Hopefully we have all seen the last of that one!
• The Music Festival is Monday morning at the Trinity United Church in Summerside. I know many of you like to attend and it is always hard to give an exact time on when they will preform. The information I have says 9:20 am, but from past experiences it could be later than that.
• I was OVER JOYED this week with the students' writing. They are really going that extra mile to impress me with their description and detail in their work. I had tears in my eyes when many of them shared their Favorite Place write ups. 
• Our Literacy Assessments are fast approaching, as they start a week from Wednesday. There was an information Pamphlet sent out on Thursday and if you have any other questions regarding them please call or email me. This week the only homework I will assign is each night there will be a short one page story from their grey folders and on the back their will be 5 Multiply Choice Questions for them to answer based on their understanding of the text. I really encourage everyone to watch your child do these "independently" and then discuss their answers with them once they are done to double check they selected the best answers. If you noticed that they have missed the main idea of the story please encourage them to reread it and really think about the story.This will be great practice for the Reading Comprehension Assessments and will also be a good indicator for you how your child is doing independently. Then I will not assign any homework for the 2 week period of Assessments.The best thing they can do before an Assessment is get a good nights sleep and a great breakfast to start the day.
• Division is going awesome! Since the students had such a great grasp on Multiplication, division seems to be a snap for most of them.
• Monday is Drink and Food Order Day.
• If you go to the following website http://www.journalpioneer.com/FlyingPage/4774/Mothers-Day-Contest and click on view entries some of you Moms will have a nice surprise. Currently their are 48 entries there, unfortunately you have to click on a bunch to find yours. But right now Grade 3's Amherst Cove entries start on the 2nd page and if you go to the 6th one with a Title: Mom and Public Name: T Stretch and from there on you will find some very sweet messages. Claire and Jeanna's Mom's are the only ones I couldn't see yet- so hopefully they will be there soon. The Journal is also going to print some of them in next Saturday's paper. The kids are so excited for you to see them!