The Eagle Eye Parent Newsletter Volumn 6, Issue 2 - Spring 2009

3rd Grade News: Mrs. Bollin - Room 203

The year has passed quickly for the boys and girls in third grade. We have grown and changed so much. We are hard working and mature students who are ready for fourth grade. In Language Arts we have accomplished great things. We have read all of the Fudge novels, created different types of poetry, and have even written our own autobiographies. In Religion we have learned about the commandments. We are also attending Mass with the second graders on Wednesday after their First Communion and hosting a breakfast for them. In Math we have mastered the multiplication tables up to twelve and are even learning long division. We have also studied fractions, geometry, and probability. In Science we have learned about different kinds of energy and the states of matter. We have also learned about machines, both simple and compound.

In Social Studies we are studying trade and the economy, which is especially interesting given the current state of our own. We have also learned why it is important to save money and how to budget. We will be taking part in the Junior Achievement Program in May. The Third Grade is filled with eager and hard working learners. They have learned the value of always trying your hardest and doing your best. They are ready for whatever comes next.

4th Grade News: Mrs. Smith

The fourth graders began the New Year busily preparing for Catholic Schools' Week Open House. One of the highlights, of that week, was the SCRIPT performance and Talent Show. Many students, for the first time, have participated in traveling athletic teams and intra-mural sports events. During Lent, we participated in unit prayer services, discussed Lenten practices, and donated to the Rice Bowl project. We survived days of Terra-Nova testing, with the help of no homework during that time! Some children wrote books, which were entered into the Scholastic Kids Are Authors contest. We all wrote a haiku and entered the Haiku Fest contest. We continue to read to our pre-school buddies, and helped them with their first Stations of the Cross experience.

The bright colors of our Art Zone projects remind us that spring is here and the number of school days is decreasing. This year we have participated in many prayer services and masses. We can now recognize the Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy, the Precepts of the Church, and the Sacraments. In Math class, we have mastered basic multiplication and division facts and now apply these skills to more challenging division, decimal, and fraction problem solving. We applied many objectives learned to complete our Science projects. A few of the topics investigated were plant survival, healthy habits, and the longest lasting nail polish! In Social Studies, we had heated discussions about the economy as we traveled across the regions of the United States. Language Arts class challenged our creative writing abilities with assignments such as, biography posters, interviews of famous Black Americans, summaries of famous American women's lives, letters to the President, and poetry. We have reached the end of fourth grade, with the help of our parents, teachers, friends, and our SMART board, and we anxiously await the wonders to come in fifth grade!