Dear Parents,
  Hopefully you are enjoying some time with your young ones this week.  If the wind calms down, maybe there will be kite flying?!?
Curriculum Update 
When we return from spring break, we will begin our study of human anatomy, beginning with the muscular and skeletal systems. We will have a special visitor, Bartholemew Bones, to help us learn the skeletal system. Bartholemew is a life-size skeleton that belongs to a friend of mine. He has visited Bromley before, and the children have been intrigued.
  In preparation for our trip to the zoo is April 14th,  we will review classification of vertebrates (fish, amphibian, reptiles, birds and mammals) . Beginning the third week in April, we will begin our study of invertebrate animals.
  In Geography we continue to learn about biomes. The week of April 4th we will focus on prairies.

Specials Schedule for the week of April 4th
Monday- library
Tuesday-art
Wednesday-music
Thursday-P.E.
Friday- library

Dates to remember
*Friday April 8th-  Young Authors Breakfast 8:30-9:15 in our classroom
*Thursday April 14th-  trip to the zoo
*Friday May 6th  6:30 p.m. -our  Montessori play: "Biomes" Animals and Plants in Their Habitats


   Thank your for the many "little" things you do to nurture your child(ren). It is a true delight to work with children who are so well cared for.

Fondly,
Ms. Oaks

March 20th, 2011- Happy Spring!

Dear Parents,
 The children remain excited as we explore earth's biomes. We began discovering how plants and animals adapt to climate.

  This coming week the 3rd graders will take the last section of CSAP exams. They have math tests on Tuesday March 22nd and Wednesday March 23rd. Thank you again, for making sure your child gets a good night sleep the night before the test. Also, a nutritious breakfast the day of the test goes a long way!

  As a reminder, if you have not returned your child's permission slip for our trip to the zoo, it is due Friday March 25th.

Happy Spring!
Ms. Oaks

report cards

Dear Parents,
 If you did not receive your child's 3rd quarter report card at conferences , you may look for it in this week's Friday folder. As usual, feel free to contact me with any questions.
Ms. Oaks

Spring Play

Dear Parents,
 Please mark your calendar for our 5th annual Montessori play! All the Montessori classes will be performing Biomes:Animals and Plants in Their Habitats. on Friday May 6th at 6:30 p.m in the school cafeteria. The children are excited about it and love learning about animals and where they live.
Ms. Oaks

Thursday March 10th,2011

Dear Parents,
 Permission Slip
 In your child's Friday folder this week you will find a permission slip for our spring field trip. Even though many of the children have been to the Denver Zoo, we will be looking at it from the perspective of animals and their biomes. In the next few weeks we will continue our study of biomes, habitats and eco-systems.
  
Sandwiches for the Brighton Food Pantry
  Our class will be making sandwiches for the food pantry on Monday March 14th in the afternoon. We will need donations of bread, meat and cheese. In addition, we will need a volunteer to take the sandwiches to the food pantry on Tuesday moring about 9:00am.

3rd grade CSAP
 Next week on Tuesday March 15th and Wednesday March 16th, the 3rd graders will take the writing portion of the CSAP. Once again, it is important to help your child get a good night sleep and a nutritious breakfast.

Conferences
  Most of you have returned your conference sheet with your preference of times. If you have questions, or still have it for some reason, feel free to e-mail or phone me and we can set up a time.

Have a good weekend,
Ms Oaks











Have a good weekend,
Ms. Oaks

On Friday March 4th, our class put on the play Grammarosaurus.

We traveled to Scotland in our imaginations and met grammarosauri(dinosaurs who are experts in grammar.)They taught us about parts of speech, punctuation, and so much more!

The backdrop you see is a newpaper, with Nessie (the Loch Ness Montoser).

Alison and Jaydah sing about commas.

My favorite letter is I. It stands up high, sing Cade, Lucas and Gavin.

How do you make a plural? Can't I just add an s?

Mason talk things over with Colby, Bradena and Colton.

Singing with classmates.

Tori and John sing about contractions. Tori is holding the 0 that falls out before the apostrophe is inserted.

Nicky shows us that some plurasls are regular, and some are irregular. "Voice becomes voices, choice becomes choices."

Sam Swamwater, roving reporter(played by Mason) has a conversations with a tourist (Nicky) about plurals as Colby looks on.

Nicky, Sean, Tori and John sing about contractions. "Who know apostrophe's could be so fun?"

Katie, Braden, Colby and Mason have a conversation about how to end a sentence. "Question mark, period, exclamation point, these I highly recommend!"

Derick, Faith, Aidan and Zach sing about subject/verb agreement." If the subject's singular, then so's the verb!"

 Dr. Pickwick, an animal psychologist, played tried to figure out why to grammarosori insisted on being quotation marks! This part was played by Braden.

Colby and Nicky play Mark 1 and Mark 2, the quotation marks.

Nessie, played by Dylan, is interviewed by Sean and Peyton. They discover he's really rather friendly!

Katie shows us her punctuation grammarosaurus shirt. She's still trying to teach us how to end a sentence!

Many thanks to Natalie Beck who was our photographer for the occasion.

Were back in the swing!

Dear Parents,


Thank you
For each of you who spent countless hours listening to songs and practicing lines for our play, many thanks! The children worked hard and were so glad to have a receptive audience! I'm sure they will be singing the songs for a while to come, which is a good sign. This means they'll be thinking about spelling and grammar rules!

Spring Conferences
Conferences for our class have been re-scheduled for the week of March 14th. A sign up sheet for conferences  will go home on Monday. I look forward to meeting with each of you.

Curriculum 
  In science we are beginning our study of the earth's biomes: forest, desert, grassland, tundra, marine and freshwater regions. Within the study, we will talk about plant and habitats as well as food chains.
  In Math we are continuing our study of probability as well as a graphing.

 Happy March,
Ms. Oaks

Specials schedule for the week of March 7th
Monday- Music
Tuesday-P.E.
Wednesday- library
Thursday-art
Friday- no school


 
 

class play re-scheduled

Dear Parents,
 Our class play has been re-scheduled for this coming Friday March 4th since it coincides with our monthly Young Author's Breakfast. A note is coming home with your child today regarding simple costumes.
Hopefully you can join us!
Ms. Oaks

Specials for the week of Feb 28th to March 4th
Monday- art
Tuesday - music
Wed- PE
Thursday-Library
Friday- art