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.