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Homework tonight is spelling practice. 

After our spelling test tomorrow morning, we'll be heading up to Riverside to the Petting Zoo.  When we get back we hope to start the Chess Tournament. 

We heard some more great oral presentations today.  Great work! 

Posted by: MrSalzano at May 31, 2007 14:42 | link | comments |

More cursive letters for homework tonight (E and O). 

We heard some more great biography reports today.  We have more tomorrow and don't forget the third grade concert at 10:45 tomorrow morning. 

Thanks to all of you who have volunteered to send items for our ice cream sundae celebration next Thursday.  It looks like we're a little short on cherries, peanuts, and bananas if you'd still like to help us out. 

Posted by: MrSalzano at May 30, 2007 14:35 | link | comments |

Tonight's homework is cursive letters (we're on to the capitals now!). 

This week's spelling words are:

found
one
sure
until
always
almost
alone
a lot
doing
hasn't
couldn't
hadn't
angry
hungry
special

Bonus Words:

extension
minimum
observance

We started our oral biography reports this afternoon and are looking forward to more tomorrow.  We also enjoyed seeing the Reptile Man this morning and his various scaled creatures.  Don't forget his show tonight at 7:00.

Posted by: MrSalzano at May 29, 2007 14:32 | link | comments |

Homework tonight is spelling practice.

Look of two important notes in your child's backpack.  One is a letter begging for items to make our Ice Cream Sundaes on June 7 (you can also come in and sling some ice cream) and a speaking schedule for biography reports.  Please let me know if the scheduled time doesn't work for you.

Don't forget our Track Meet is tomorrow morning up at Riverside.  I believe it starts around 9:00. 

Posted by: MrSalzano at May 24, 2007 14:38 | link | comments |

Homework tonight is the last two lower case letters in cursive. 

We started the final draft of our biography essays and tomorrow we'll talk about the oral presentations as well.  Ask your child how their essay is going.

We made series circuits in science today.  Ask your child what that is and how we got the light bulbs to brighten. 

Remember Friday morning is our track meet up at Riverside. 

Posted by: MrSalzano at May 23, 2007 14:32 | link | comments |

Homework is spelling practice.

This week's words:

wagon
lemon
open
garden
sugar
dollar
paper
another
brother
travel
squirrel
nickel
animal
final
real

Bonus Words:

experience
incident
mansion

Tomorrow we'll spend some time revising and editing our biography essays.  Look for note cards to come home on Thursday in preparation of our speeches. 

Posted by: MrSalzano at May 21, 2007 14:36 | link | comments |

The "Lucky Four" who get in free to the MAC on June 8 are:

Mrs. Anderson
Ms. Essiq
Mrs. Rausch
Mrs. Orgill

They were the first four to turn in their paperwork.  Congratulations! 

Please remember that all of you may attend and chaperone, but you'll need to pay the $5 admission price and might need to follow the bus done in a carpool. 

Let me know if you have any questions. 

Posted by: MrSalzano at May 18, 2007 14:32 | link | comments |

Homework tonight is not cursive.  I sent home a math page about mean and median. 

We wrote another paragraph for our biography reports and took the comprehension test in Gates. 

Tomorrow's Friday!

Posted by: MrSalzano at May 17, 2007 14:54 | link | comments (1) |

Homework tonight is still more cursive!  (We've got to finish up before the year ends)

We learned about capacity in math and did the vocabulary portion the Gates test.  We also took a social studies test and worked on the second paragraph of our biography reports.  We wrote about the accomplishments/successes of our famous person.  Ask your child what he/she wrote.  Tomorrow we'll be writing about the famous person's failures/weaknesses. 

Look for the Field Trip letter I sent home tonight and please send in the permission form as soon as possible. 

Posted by: MrSalzano at May 16, 2007 14:37 | link | comments |

Homework tonight is more cursive practice. 

Look for a letter concerning our biography reports.  We'll be doing the oral presentations on the 29-31.  We'll let you know the schedule of presenters as we get closer to those dates.

We had a lot of fun discovering conductors and insulators during science this morning.  Ask your child how we discovered which was which. 

We ended the day doing the power writing boxes for the childhood, the first paragraph, of our biographies.

Have a good night.

Posted by: MrSalzano at May 15, 2007 14:38 | link | comments |

Homework tonight is cursive practice.  We finished our reading unit so no spelling this week.  We will be taking the Gates test tomorrow and Wednesday.  The Gates test assesses vocabulary and reading comprehension. 

We also start writing out our biographies tomorrow.  We'll try to write the first paragraph on the person's childhood. 

Posted by: MrSalzano at May 14, 2007 14:48 | link | comments |

Homework tonight is spelling practice.  Our final test for the week is tomorrow. 

We're making progress on our biography reports and learning more about electricity in science.  Ask your child about making a motor run today.

Posted by: MrSalzano at May 10, 2007 14:34 | link | comments |

Homework tonight is taking notes from the biography book.  We made a place to take notes in our writing notebooks and students should have some reading material on their famous person.  If your child doesn't have enough material then you might consider a trip to one of our local libraries to hunt down some more information. 

Posted by: MrSalzano at May 09, 2007 14:47 | link | comments |

Homework is the cursive letters "n" and "m". 

Last chance to change famous person for biography reports.  Tomorrow we get down to business.  Look for a letter explaining everything soon.

Posted by: MrSalzano at May 08, 2007 14:59 | link | comments |

Homework tonight is spelling practice.

Here's this week's words:

where
what
when
wheel
whip
whale
while
want
was
watched
wear
went
warm
would
weep

Bonus Words:

defective
dwindling
expedite

Who is your child choice for the biography report?

Posted by: MrSalzano at May 07, 2007 14:52 | link | comments |

I forgot to copy off spelling homework tonight, but here's this week's list for your child to study:

started
smiled
cried
planned
hoped
fried
hopped
starting
smiling
crying
planning
hoping
frying
hopping

Bonus Words:

concentration
confession
considerate

Ask your child which famous person he/she choose to write a report about.  Students have until Monday to finalize their choice. 

Posted by: MrSalzano at May 03, 2007 14:52 | link | comments |

Homework tonight is a math page about positive and negative numbers.  Tomorrow we'll take a social studies test on government, services, and taxes.  We'll also pick who we're going to learn about for our biography reports.  Let your child know tonight if you have any suggestions.

Book orders are due on Friday. 

Posted by: MrSalzano at May 02, 2007 14:34 | link | comments |

Homework tonight is the cursive letters "d" and "c". 

In math we're learning how to do two-digit by two-digit multiplication.  We're doing problems like 53 x 26 = in both the partial product and lattice algorithms. 

Don't forget that tomorrow is a late start. 

Posted by: MrSalzano at May 01, 2007 14:35 | link | comments |