Buddy Reading

As part of our Book Week Celebration we were able to do some buddy reading with our kindergarten partners in Ms. Protti's class.  First, the kindergarteners read a just right book to a third grader.  Then our third graders read a favorite picture book to their buddies.  Everyone had a great time!

So much to do next week...

Active Families Night

Come discover ways to have fun and stay active and healthy!  

Monday, March 24th 6:00-7:00 @ CES

Wax Museum

Day Performance - Tuesday, March 25th at 1:30
Evening Performance - Wednesday, March 26th at 6:00
(See the Friday folder for more information about students arrival, parent arrival and how it all works!)

Spring Picture Day

Spring pictures & class pictures will be on Tuesday, March 25th.  Have your child wear their best smile! Check the Friday folders for more information!

Book Week at CES

The week of March 24th - March 28th is Book Week at Carrboro Elementary School!  These are the school wide events that are planned:

Monday - Storyteller Assembly at 10:00 am

Tuesday - Buddy Reading with Kindergarten Classes

Wednesday - Special Reading During Morning Announcements

Thursday - Drop Everything and Read Afternoon - Students are allowed to bring a pillow and a stuffed animal on this day.

Friday - Dress as your favorite Book Character Day - Students can spend the week brainstorming possibilities and gathering supplies for a costume!

Cub Clubs!

It is time for Cub Club sign up!  The second round of clubs will begin on Monday, April 7th through Monday, May 5th.  Cub Clubs are free!  Registration forms are in the Friday Folder.  Registration is first come, first serve so get your forms back quickly!

Club offerings this round are:

• Film Club
• Zumba Club
• Steel Drum Club
• Guitar Club
• Ultimate Frisbee Club
• Gardening Club
• Sewing Club  

School Fair Raffle Tickets

Raffle tickets will be coming home in the Friday folders on March 28th!  There are so many terrific raffle prizes this year including an ipad Air (courtesy of Custom Carpentry Group), a PlayStation 4, a $200 gas card, an Overnight at Umstead and Isabella, the American Girl Doll of 2014.  The school fair & raffle is the fundraiser for CES so help sell tickets for these great prizes!

The Wax Museum is Around the Corner...

The Wax Museum is around the corner!  

Our first performance will be our day time performance on 

Tuesday, March 25th from 1:30-2:30.  

Our second performance will be our evening performance on 

Wednesday, March 26th at 6:00pm.

  Please come to the performance that works best for your schedule.

Students have been hard at work these past few weeks, reading about their heroes, seeking additional research material, taking organized notes, drafting reports and monologues.  Students are now beginning to rehearse their monologues and they sound great!

How can you help?

Listen to your child's monologue & give them one point of feedback.  Give them one compliment and one pointer to work on at a time.  For example,  I like the way you paused at the commas and periods in your monologue.  Next time try to make your voice a little louder. 

Also...

Help your child put his/her costume together.  Once you have everything they need gathered together, please send it in with your child.  We will keep everything in a labeled bag at school until the last wax museum performance.  

This week in Room 207....

Reading Objectives:

• Readers will learn about author’s purpose.
• Readers will examine persuasive writing.

Math Objectives:

• Mathematicians are working to explore fractions on a number line.
• Mathematicians will develop strategies for creating a fractional number line.
• Mathematicians will learn how the whole in a number line can represent the same whole in picture form.

Project Objectives:

• Researchers will explore how objects move.
• Researchers will learn about push and pull.  
• Researchers will explore how gravity impacts motion.

Writing Objectives:

• Writers will begin to finalize their wax museum monologues.
• Students will begin to memorize and rehearse their monologues

A Tree Day Celebration at Carrboro Elementary School

Third grade students celebrated trees last Thursday with Carrboro Mayor, Lydia Lavelle!  

Students learned about trees from arborist, Kelly Blair.  We even were visited by Smokey the Bear!

Students participated in a poster contest.  Students created posters about the importance of trees.  All the posters were beautiful and really showed creativity and knowledge about the importance of trees in our environment.  Judges selected the three top posters to be displayed at Town Hall.  The posters selected belonged to:

Sofia V. from Room 207 

Rachel G. from Room 207

Porter B. from Room 302 

Later, we worked together to plant an apple tree on the school grounds.  

Come and take a look at it sometime!

This week in Room 207...

Reading Objectives:

• Readers will explore the differences between narrative and expository text.
• Readers will understand how to read narrative nonfiction as stories with main characters.
• Readers will seek the big, underlying ideas in narrative nonfiction.

Writing Objectives:

• Writers will work to improve word choice as they revise.
• Writers will begin to draft their wax museum monologues.

Math Objectives:

• Mathematicians will begin to explore fractions.
• Mathematicians will learn about numerators and denominators.
• Mathematicians will create their own fraction bar manipulatives to use throughout the unit.

Project Objectives:

• Researchers will explore how objects move.
• Researchers will learn about push and pull.  
• Researchers will explore how gravity impacts motion.