A Look at Next Week...

Summer Reading

Mrs. Ryan is offering some great options for summer reading. Please check out the two sheets in your child's Friday folder for more information. 

Math- We will move back into Module 7 focusing on perimeter. The students will take the SC Ready test in math on Tuesday. 

Language Arts- We will be reading the novel Lemonade War. The students will have a quiz over chapters 1-6 on Thursday. 

Science- We continue to learn about Magnets. 

Social Studies- We will wrap up Chapter 8 on Civil War at the end of the week. The students will have a test on Friday. 

Conduction Busters

We were finally able to get a full day to test the ice boxes. The students did a great job coming up with insulators that would keep the ice from melting quickly. Check them out...

Iceboxes

Winners- Judith, Andrew, Claire and Sydney- They each had some ice left at the end of the day! 

Live Webcast

The students really enjoyed the Live Webcast we watched today with the author of the Dairy of a Wimpy Kid books, Jeff Kinney. He discussed how he creates his books and illustrations and also revealed the new cover and title of his next book...Double Down...which comes out November 1st. The students were sad that they have to wait so long, but they enjoyed the webcast!

Congratulations!!!

Congrats to Brianna for mastering her multiplication facts!! Who will be next? 

Congrats to Claire for earning her Reading Counts Shirt! May 20th is the last day for Reading Counts. Who will be next? 

Mrs. Rataiczak's Cooking Company

Students have been designing a pot for my customers!! My customers need one that conducts heat, but doesn't burn their hands. Students used what they had learned about heat to create the ideal pot! They also had to describe their pot to me in a way that would persuade me to pick their pot as the winner!! I gave out some awards for their wonderful designs. 

Harrison- Best Handle Insulation  and Myles- Best Cooking Pot-  Overall

Claire- Most Creative Cooking Pot and Mitchell- Most Creative Name 

Next Week

SC Ready (State Test)

We will start state testing next week with Writing/Language Arts and Reading. The students have been working hard all year and are prepared!! The students will take writing on Tuesday and Reading on Wednesday. Please make sure your child has a good night sleep and eats a good breakfast. We will start testing around 8:30 each morning. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Congrats!
Molly Jane just mastered her multiplication facts!! Who will be next? 

Math- We will be reviewing for the state math test and will continue to work through Module 7 on perimeter, area and geometry. 

Language Arts- The students will take SC Ready on Tuesday and Wednesday. 

Science- We will start our unit on Magnetism. Conduction Busters, milk cartons, are due on Monday. 

Social Studies- We continue discussing the Civil War in Chapter 8. 

Looking Good!!

Everyone looked great for Spring Pictures!

Congratulations!

Congrats to Anna for earning her Reading Counts shirt!! We have a couple more students close to the 250 mark. Who will be next? 

Next Week...

State Museum

We had a great time today at the State Museum. The class represented our school well. The students recognized many things we have talked about in South Carolina History and learned a couple new things. 

Ahhhh!  

Hanging out on The Best Friend of Charleston.

The Hunley (submarine)

One Room School House

Mrs. Rataiczak's Third Grade Class 

Math- We will continue learning about polygons, measuring perimeter and area in Module 7. We will also be reviewing for the state test. The SC Ready math test will be on Tuesday, May 3rd.

Language Arts- We will be working on text dependent analysis and reviewing for the SC Ready state test in ELA. The tests will be administered on April 26th and the 27th. 

Science- We will continue focusing on Heat. The students will a test on Friday. They were assigned a project titled Conduction Busters. This is due on Monday, April 28th. The milk cartons will come home this Monday. 

Social Studies- We will start discussing the Civil War in Chapter 8. 

Purple Up- Military Students in Our Class 

Writing 911

We had a sick student, Timmy Thirdgator, in class today who suffered from The Bad Writer's Disease. The doctors had to try and save him by doing surgery to edit and revise his writing!! 

10 Days and Counting

Only 10 days until SC Ready (state test) is administered! We started our countdown today! The first balloon popped said...You were "mint" to succeed! 

Next Week...

Math- We will continue with Module 7. We will focus on finding perimeter of polygons. The students will have a quiz over lessons 4-7 on Tuesday. Math Newsletter

Language Arts- We will be comparing and contrasting different passages. We will also practice editing different writing passages. 

Science- We are learning all about Heat. (insulators, conductors, sources of heat)

Social Studies- We continue discussing Antebellum Times in SC. The students will take a test over this material on Friday. *Friday is my plan, but it may change. 

My Favorite Part of the Week 

My favorite part of the week was on Friday because we started a new unit in science. The new unit is about heat. Mrs. Rataiczak started off by giving us the thermometer and the three cups. The three cups were plastic, glass, and Styrofoam. While the water was boiling we did some of social studies. When the water was done boiling Mrs. Rataiczak  poured the hot water into each cup then one person at the learning club put the thermometer in each cup. The temperatures were all different in each cup. We waited 10 minutes and then we put the thermometer back in the cup to take the temperatures. After 10 more minutes we put the thermometer back in the cups and saw how much heat each cup lost. We learned how different materials lose and keep heat. 

-Written by Judith Byrd 

Sydney and Mason discuss the temperature of the water in the glass cup.

Gabe, Bennett, and Eslam discuss the temperature of the water in the plastic container.