Happy February! This is the day for Chiefs fans everywhere! Superbowl Sunday has arrived! I hope all our classmates are feeling better after being hit hard with the flu. We averaged five absent each day with some students returning to find others absent. We sanitized our room daily! After school on Friday Mr. Brent sprayed every surface with a special disinfectant. Third grade teachers are hoping that the flu “epidemic” is behind us and everyone is ready to roll this week!
If the Chiefs win tonight, there is going to be a celebratory mood pervading the hallways tomorrow. Students in both classes are beyond excited for tonight’s game. I hope you and your family enjoy the experience together! Craig and I are getting together with my Wednesday night Bible study group at our leader’s home. Our husbands are in a Sunday school class together on Sunday mornings. It just morphed into that over the last several years which actually is a fun thing. Our group has favorite teams from all over the country but tonight we are all Chiefs fans! Go, Chiefs! Here is a look at what’s going on at BIS and Room 114: Character Student of the Month During the month of January our student character word was “Self-Discipline.” The bulletin board outside the cafeteria defined self-discipline in this way: “Someone who takes responsibility, is patient, and thinks about words and actions.” Congratulations to Waylon Cooper for being selected as a person who exemplifies SELF-DISCIPLINE. Waylon exemplifies self-discipline in his organization, work habits, academics, and in his relationships with his classmates. He speaks in a considerate manner and is always willing to help. Congratulations, Waylon! Valentine Party Our Valentine’s Day party will be on Thursday, February 13 at 2:00 in our classroom. All parents are welcome to attend. We’d love for you to join us! You and your child are welcome to create a box at home to collect your valentines in or make one here at school. I will have supplies ready for students who want to make a mailbag that week. You may send valentines in whenever you are ready. I will store them in our closet until we mail them Valentine’s Day morning. One of the favorite moments in the class party is when students read their valentines. You would be surprised at how much joy that brings each person. It’s a sweet moment. A class list was sent home a week ago in the HIPPO folder. We have 25 students. Here is another copy of our sweet class: Lincoln Calhoun Braydon Casey Addyson Clardy Aidan Clardy Kinzzy Combs Elijah Cooper Waylon Cooper Mackenzie Dace Lilly Daulton Wyatt Fox Natalie Fredrickson Parker Gunnels Hayden Hammond Hunter Hancock Mason Hunt Emmaline Manis Logun Morris Lexi Papenfuhs Melody Richardson Drayven Sanders Suki Sprague Kaden Stanford Zane Stephens-Butler Ethan Tennison Haylee Webster PTO Valentine’s Day Candy Grams Once again PTO is selling candy grams for Valentine’s Day. You can choose a full bag of M&M’s and/or Skittles for $1.50 each. These candy grams will be delivered to BIS students only. Order forms came home last week on a pink sheet of paper. Please have your orders returned by Friday, February 7. If writing a check, please make payable to Bolivar PTO. Kindness is Contagious Our counselor, Ms. Watson, is already busy preparing a special week for students and faculty at BIS to focus on kindness. Kindness is Contagious week will be held February 10-13. This event will include a spirit week with the following dress-up schedule:
On February 5, BIS will participate in a Global School Play Day. We will have a 1-hour, unstructured time to play games. Third grade will participate in the afternoon before specials. Students are invited to bring things to play on this special day such as Legos, puppets, stuffed animals, board games, card games, and puzzles. Students are asked to leave electronics and anything requiring batteries at home. Please items from home with your child’s name. It’s going to be a fun time! Daddy-Daughter Dance A Father-Daughter Dance will be held on Thursday, February 6 from 6:00-7:30 pm in the BIS gymnasium. For $5.00 per pair, the dance will include cookies and punch along with a complimentary photo. Make sure to mark this special event on your calendar! February Units of Study Reading: Last week we dove into a new fiction reading unit called “Character Studies.” Students will learn to get to know characters by observing their words and actions and then use this information to form ideas about their character traits. We will then follow the main character over the story mountain watching him/her react to the problems that arise. We will recognize that characters go through a change as a result of the problems they encounter. They have a choice to avoid the problem, confront it head on, get advice from another character, or take time to solve it themselves. After a story ends, there is a lesson that is learned. The theme has been woven through the story all along but we reflect on the events and the character’s growth to determine how that lesson applies to real life. The last series of lessons in this unit will have us comparing and contrasting characters, settings, problems, and themes. During this unit, we will use the book Because of Winn Dixie as our main mentor text. Writing: We are continuing our “Changing the World” persuasive writing unit. Students have written opinions in the form of awards and have written a friendly letter to their parents persuading them to go on a special vacation. Some students have invested quite a bit of thought into that letter! Besides opinions on special things and places, this week we will work on “flash draft” speeches with opinions on special people who go unrecognized. We are starting with opinions we have that are personal and later we will move to persuade others to make positive changes in the world around us. This unit will help us learn how to address our audience, organize and categorize our evidence, and select our words carefully to evoke emotions. We will revisit paragraphing and the use of transitional phrases to connect our thoughts with an emphasis on driving our opinion home. This unit is empowering! Students recognize they have opinions and the ability to articulate their thoughts meaningfully. Fundations: In phonics we are currently working on base word + suffix. We’ve reviewed vowel and consonant suffixes which helps with spelling rules. For the last week we’ve talked about 1-1-1 words--words that are one closed syllable with a short vowel sound followed by one consonant. These words double the final consonant when adding a vowel suffix. We continue to work with homophones such as son/sun, know/no, write/right, and band/banned. We have quite a group of trick words that we have mastered. We also have worked with a select group of sounds to practice different spelling patterns: c/k/ck, d/ed, t/ed, tch/ch, and s/z. Your children are doing an excellent job on this unit! We’ve spiral reviewed each day and the class feels confident for our upcoming test in a week. Important Dates February 5: Global School Play Day, 1:05-2:05 pm February 6: Father-Daughter Dance 6:00-7:30 pm February 10-13: Kindness is Contagious Week February 12: Mid-Quarter Progress Reports coming home February 13: Valentine Party at 2:00-3:00 pm February 14: No School, Teacher PD Day February 17: No School, President’s Day February 18: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MASON! February 22: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SUKI and ZANE! February 27: Family STEAM Night, 5:00-7:00 pm Looking Ahead: *****Our 3rd Grade Concert will be Thursday, March 5 at the BHS Auditorium. More information to come from Mrs. McClard. Thank you for your continued support! ENJOY THE SUPERBOWL!! Blessings, Mrs. Endres
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AuthorHello! My name is Heidi…I love my family, the Lord, and chai tea lattes! I’m a wife to an amazing husband, mama to four wonderful kids, new Grammy to a cute baby boy, and a chubby 3rd grade teacher. (I've eaten too many birthday cupcakes!) I love people, learning, and creating. Thanks for stopping by! May you be blessed today as you bless others. Archives
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