Important!

Please return your CULTURE CRAZE slip by Thursday if you are sending in a food/dessert dish. I have only had 4 slips returned so far so please send the slips in ASAP so that we can get our menu organized.

A letter is coming home with your child about parent volunteers for the grade 3 to 5 sports day on June 21. If you are able to help out on this day please fill in the form and return it to school ASAP.

Thank you!

WOW...June is going to be busy!!

Here is a peek at what is in store for JUNE.

June 7th - Culture Craze Feast (Peru, Tunisia and India)
June 11th - Scholar Dollar Sale
June 15th - Reading PAT (am)
June 17th - Math Problem Solving PAT (am)
June 18th - Swimming at Nicholas Sheran Pool
June 21st - Sports Day
June 22nd (am) - POW WOW at Nicholas Sheran Park
June 22nd (pm) - Miss. Pickett's class pizza party and water fun afternoon.
June 23rd - Wetland Field Trip (all grade three classes)
June 24th (pm) and June 25th (am) - School wide classroom moving days
June 28th - Farewell assembly and Grade three year end party at Nicholas Sheran Splash Park
June 29th - LAST DAY OF SCHOOL -- Year end assembly (Kids dismissed at noon)

CAN WE SAY A LITTLE BIT ON THE CRAZY SIDE! :)

TIME IS GOING TO FLY!!!!

Spelling words for this week

This week the spelling words are compound words.

grasshopper

nightmare

almost

upstairs

sunshine

cupboard

afternoon

railroad

homework

breakfast

downstairs

thunderstorm

backyard

sidewalk

airport

Spelling worksheets due on Friday.

Spelling test on Friday.

Challenge Question - May 28th

MYSTERY PATTERNS

Solve the patterns below.

15, 10, 15, 20, 15, 30 , ____, _____, _____

60, 50, 41, 33, ____, _____, ______

3, 6, 12, 24, _____, _____, ______

Bring in your answer on a piece of paper for your prize.

CULTURE CRAZE FEAST!

BIG DAY COMING UP ON MONDAY, JUNE 7th.

"CULTURE CRAZE FEAST"

We will be sampling food dishes from Peru, India and Tunisia. I will need children to bring in a dish from the country of their choice for the rest of the class to sample.

I am going to need parent help to makes this day a success. There are many great recipes on the Internet that you can whip up in a hurry.

Sampling food dishes is a great way for the kids to learn about the culture of another country.

A letter is coming home with your child today explaining the CULTURE CRAZE event.

Let's learn about erosion!

Experimenting with a little wind, water and earth erosion on sugar cubes!

Those sugar cubes do not stand a chance against these powerful wind blowers!

My little geologists are earning all abour rocks!

My soil detectives making their discoveries!

The kids are having an absolute blast with the rocks and minerals centres!

HOT LUNCH TOMORROW!

REMINDER THAT TOMORROW IS HOT LUNCH FROM SUBWAY!

YUMMY! :)

Challenge Question - May 25th

On this fabulous beach day, Miss. Pickett and her beach buddy decided to head to Hawaii for a vacation. They flew for 480 minutes to get to their tropical destination.

How many hours did Miss. Pickett and her beach buddy fly for?

Bring in your answer tomorrow for your prize!

Abstract Artists!!

Tackling abstract circle art with ease!!!

These kids are AMAZING!!!

We are making CANDY CYRSTALS!

WE ARE MAKING CANDY CRYSTALS ON TUESDAY, MAY 25TH.

Your child needs to bring a yogurt container lid or a glass jar lid covered with tinfoil on Tuesday.

If you do not have a lid, a small paper plate covered with tinfoil will work as well.

Tuesday is BEACH DAY!

Tuesday is beach day...so pull out those flip flops and come to school looking like you are ready to head to the beach and build the best sandcastle ever!

FRACTIONS UNIT QUIZ ON TUESDAY

We will be having our FRACTIONS unit quiz on Tuesday, May 25th. Your child is bringing home a "FRACTION REVIEW" worksheet today. They need to review this worksheet and return it on TUESDAY.

The unit quiz WILL be very similar to the review worksheet.

NO SCHOOL!

THERE IS NO SCHOOL ON FRIDAY AND MONDAY!!

SEE YOU TUESDAY!

Challenge Question - May 19th

FRACTION FRENZY

Miss. Pickett has 20 marbles in her bag.

There are 5 red marbles, 3 blue marbles, 7 purple marbles,

4 yellow marbles and 1 orange marble.

Write the fraction that tells how many of the marbles are blue.

Write the fraction that tells how many of the marbles are yellow.

Write the fraction that tells how many of the marbles are orange.

LOVELY LITTLE FUR BALLS!

Miss. Pickett is very proud of her handsewing kiddos! You all did an amazing job of creating your cute little fur balls!

Great work monkeys!

IMPORTANT!!!

Pysanky eggs will be coming home with your child tomorrow. Please make sure they bring a plastic container that is well lined with paper towel or something soft so that the eggs do not break.

Most children have 2 eggs, so please be sure to send a container that is large enough to SAFELY hold two eggs.

You will be amazed to see the pysanky eggs your child has created!

Challenge Question - May 17th

Task One: Draw a rectangle.

Task Two: Cut your rectangles into tenths.

Task Three: Color 3 tenths yellow.

Task Four: Color 2 tenths blue.

Task Five: Color 4 tenths pink.

Bring your answer in on a piece of paper.

Reminders for this week

No school on Friday, May 21 due to teacher professional learning day.

Scholastic book orders are due on Wednesday, May 19th.

BACK TO SPELLING THIS WEEK!

Here are the spelling words for this week.

All the words begin with the letter "S".

skunk

scream

scrub

skeleton

scribble

swamp

smooth

spell

skin

sweet

snack

straight

slip

smell

spend

Spelling test will be on Thursday, as there is no school on Friday due to a teacher learning day.

Blue spelling worksheet due on Thursday.

MATH MASTERS!

The kids dominated their math facts PAT today!!! What a bunch of math masters in this classroom. The kids amazed me with their speed!

I am so proud of each and every one of my kids! They have worked so hard and come such a long way with their math skills!

Way to go crazy monkeys!

Wear pink to stop bullying!

Tomorrow is pink shirt day! Wear pink to support the campaign to STOP BULLYING in schools!

Playground Perimeter!

Measuring the perimeter of the playground...we love taking advantage of the the FINALLY gorgeous weather with a little outdoor math. Look out because.....these kids are masters with the metre stick!!

SCHOLASTIC ORDERS DUE MAY 19th.

Scholastic book orders are coming home today with your child.

If you are wanting to order books please have your orders to school by Wednesday, May 19th.

READING IS ONE OF THE MOST REWARDING ACTIVITIES YOUR CHILD CAN DO!

Challenge Question - May 12th

FIND THE MYSTERY NUMBER

Task One: Double the number 212. Write down the number you get.

Task Two: Subtract 34 from the number Miss. Pickett is holding.

Task 3: Triple the number 36.

TASK FOUR: ADD ALL THE NUMBERS THAT YOU GOT TOGETHER FOR YOUR FINAL ANSWER.

Bring in your answer on piece of paper tomorrow for your prize!

MATH FACTS PAT TOMORROW!

MATH FACTS PAT IS TOMORROW MORNING AT 9:00AM!

PLEASE TAKE 15 MINUTES TONIGHT TO HAVE YOUR CHILD PRACTICE THEIR ADDITION, SUBTRACTION AND MULTIPLICATION MATH FACTS!

PLEASE BE SURE THAT THEY KNOW 7x7, 7x6 AND 6x6! These are the three that trip kids up the most!

WHAT A GREAT JOB!

The kids did a truly great job on their story writing PAT! I am SO PROUD of all of their efforts! They really took the time to write some amazing stories with their creative imaginations! I loved walking around the room while the kids were working and reading all the amazing stories that they were writing with a ton of juicy writing words. They always continue to amaze me with how much effort they put into doing the best they can do no matter what the task is.

They truly are the best kids in the WORLD!!!

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

No spelling this week.

STORY WRITING PAT TOMORROW --- Please make sure that your child goes to bed early tonight and has a good breakfast in the morning.

Purple math sheets on capacity (litre and mililetre due on Friday).

Challenge Question - May 6th

What unit of measurement would you use to measure the things in the list below.

KILOMETRES (km) METRES (m) CENTIMETRES (cm)

A) The length of an eraser.

B) The distance from the movie theatre to the school.

C) The height of a tree.

D) The distance from MMH to Safeway.

E) The length of a bus.

F) The length of a popsicle.

G) The height of a powerpole.

H) The width of a movie poster.

Bring in your answer on a piece of paper Monday for your prize!

MEASUREMENT MASTERS!

MEASURING MANIA

The kids had a blast measuring around the classroom. The most popular item to measure was Miss. Pickett! Go figure! :)

Thanks for making measurement in centimetres so much fun crazy monkeys!!

Fun fact: Miss. Pickett's leg is 76cm long!

REMINDERS

No school tomorrow for students. Teacher professional learning day for teachers.

PLEASE DO LOTS OF MATH FACTS PRACTICE THIS WEEKEND!!! (PAT ON THURSDAY, MAY 13TH)

STORY WRITING PAT ON TUESDAY, MAY 11TH.

Challenge Question - May 5th

Miss. Pickett loves shopping. She went to the store. This is what Miss. Pickett bought.

Stuffed polar bear: $5.86

Chocolate bar: $2.33

Sparkly pencils: $4.02

New books for her classroom: $8.23

HOW MUCH MONEY DID MISS. PICKETT SPEND ALTOGETHER?

Bring in your answer on a piece of paper tomorrow for your prize.

We had a blast with doing pysanky eggs!!!

The kids did a great job creating traditional Ukrainian pysanky eggs. I am amazed at the artistic ability of the kids!!

What a CREATIVE AND CRAFTY crew!

Challenge Question - May 3

Draw an analog clock to show the digital times below.

4:45

3:15

7:20

8:05

Bring in your clock drawings on a piece of paper tomorrow morning for your prize.

GOOD LUCK MONKEYS!

No School Friday

There is no school on Friday, May 7th due to a teacher professional learning day.

NO SPELLING THIS WEEK

There is no spelling this week. We are spending time extra time fine tuning our fancy writing skills so that we can write spectacular stories next week.

PAT DATES

IMPORTANT DATES

STORY WRITING PAT - Tuesday, May 11th (morning)

MATH FACTS PAT - Thursday, May 13th (morning)

*addition

*subtraction

*multiplication

PLEASE BE SURE TO PRACTICE A LOT OF MATH FACTS THIS WEEK!