11/18 News
Busy Bee News
“Buzz”-worthy Moment: Art Masterpiece is ALWAYS a highlight of the week! Thank you to Mrs. Miriovsky and Mrs. Graves for leading both 3rd grades in expressing our creativity! Be sure to join us at our Charlie Brown Thanksgiving on Wednesday, 10-11am so you can see the art we made!
Book Boxes
If anyone wants to create a Book in a Box, GO FOR IT!
Salt Dough Recipe
Here is the recipe to make salt dough at home if you’d like 😊 Maybe use it for Book Box items?
https://wanderhomeschooling.com/easy-homemade-playdough-recipe-with-cream-of-tartar/
Busy Bee Tees: The plan is to get them to wear to our Charlie Brown Thanksgiving!!
Social-Emotional Learning: Thanks-giving and More!
Being GRATEFUL and GIVING (Thanks-Giving)
Our Class Giving Project
We have been learning about having an “Attitude of Gratitude”.
Both 3rd Grade Classes are collecting non-perishable items from now until November 19th. We will donate the items to a local food bank for families in need. I anticipate this will spark lots of conversations in class, too!
Read Aloud:
Junie B. Jones, Turkeys We Have Loved (and Eaten) and Other Thankful Stuff!
This is such a fun read-aloud, with some real-life lessons on being thankful! We have begun a class thankful list and are bringing home THANKFUL BAGS to share next week!
How NOT to be a Sour Grape!!
We listened to this story and then enjoyed a directed drawing of our own “emotional” grapes! Ask your 3rd grader about our conversation and his/her grapes!
https://www.artforkidshub.com/?s=grapes
Coming Up in November…
Lunch with 3rd Grade (Mondays) Sign Up:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0d4dafae2ca3f9c70-lunch
Guided Reading Groups (Tue/Wed/Thu) Sign Up:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4DAFAE2CA3F9C70-guided
Now until 11/19 Non-Perishable Item Collection (3rd Grade Project)
Now until Dec 9th: Schoolwide Paper Drive!
Thank you to all who donated to our Donor’s Choose Paper Project! We were funded for 10 cases of paper in just 1 day!! That’s 100 reams!! You are AWESOME!!
If you’d still like to donate, feel free to send in a ream+ of paper with your Busy Bee!
11/23 Charlie Brown Thanksgiving on Campus
Hello San Tan Charter Recker Campus Families,
Occurring the day before Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is a tradition at San Tan Charter! Dr. and Mrs. Sippel began this tradition in the first Montessori Preschool class with bean soup. The tradition continues for families by bringing their own lunch and eating it picnic style outside as a community and bringing desserts to share.
Date
November 23rd
Timing
We will open the front doors starting at 10:30. Charlie Brown Thanksgiving typically runs for around an hour and a half.
Picking Up Your Student
- Guests are welcome to enter the building starting at 10:30 am. At this point, there is no need to sign in as a visitor.
- All students will need to be checked out from the classroom that day as opposed to doing the Drive Lane Routine. Therefore, there will be NO DRIVELANE on this day.
- There will be NO AFTERCARE on this day.
- Guests will go to their student’s classroom and they may enter the classroom after the doors open.
- Please let your classroom teacher know you are taking your student before you leave.
Parking
The entire parking lot will be free for families to utilize. We do ask that if the parking lot is full, please either park in the neighborhood or across the street at the church. Please be cognizant of the signage within Morrison Ranch about where to park as there is a lot of “tow zones” in the neighborhood.
What to Expect
Everyone comes to eat a picnic lunch together as a community. We will have thankful art from the classes for you to enjoy viewing and all are welcome to come and have a good time. We will have a few tables and chairs set up but please bring any blankets, beach chairs in case we run out of provided seating space.
Clean Up
Any helping hand you could lend us in the cleanup process would be so helpful. You will notice teachers starting the cleanup process around noon so any trash or left overs you could help with disposing would be great.
Food Ordering
You are certainly welcome to bring your own lunch but we will have also My Hot Lunchbox ordering for Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. If you or your family are interested in ordering please go to the following link to order. Order Here
Your order will be available outside at the tables closest to the water fountains.
Food Requirements
Please keep in mind when you are packing lunch that we are a nut free school.
Volunteer Opportunities
Day Of Volunteers – We are looking for volunteers to help us pull off this awesome event!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090C4BAAA922AAFD0-charlie3
Donation Requests
Bring in a Dessert to Share- A few reminders: No NUTS, desserts must be baked, defrosted and ready at morning drive lane. There will be volunteers available to collect your dessert at drive lane and walk it over to the cafeteria to be cut.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090C4BAAA922AAFD0-charlie2
11/24-25 Thanksgiving Break
11/28 Classroom Spelling Bee (Recker Spelling Bee is 1/6/23)
The winner of our classroom spelling bee will compete at the Recker Spelling Bee in January…HAPPY STUDYING!!!
Here are the spelling lists through 6th grade:
11/28 MAP Testing Begins
I will let you know our exact dates when I get them. I can’t wait to see how much the kids have grown!!
Coming Up in December…
12/10 Finding Ms. Laramie
December’s “Find Mrs. Laramie” will be a special holiday edition centering on a yearly event that happens right in our very own neighborhood. Bundle up because we will be parking in the school parking lot and walking “Christmas on Comstock” light display show!
Meet me at 6:30 on Saturday December 10th to collect together outside of the school to prepare to walk the Christmas on Comstock light display.
I hope to see you there!
12/13 Winter Concert
A Glimpse into our Class
Daily Schedule
This is subject to change, of course!
Homework
Reminder: I check homework for EFFORT, not COMPLETION. You decide how much gets done at home!
BENEFITS of Homework:
- Extra practice for students who may need it
- Communication with parents about what we are doing in class
- Creates good study habits
- Gives students the opportunity to ‘accomplished’ when they are finished and/or they understand
- Creates opportunities for parents and/or older siblings to spend time with their 3rd grader
***Homework is NOT meant to be a frustration!
My purpose with homework is for the kids to get the practice so they understand the concepts. If the math packet is easy for them, for example, there is no need for them to complete it at home, although they probably will have finished it at school! THE POINT: I know you are all busy! I am typically flexible with due dates so if you have sports or ??? one night, feel free to wait until the next night to do it. When they return the homework to me, I acknowledge the time and effort they put into it. If this inspires your child to get the practice at home, wonderful! If not, no added stress!!
Language Arts
We are on Unit 2 Week 5 in our Wonders curriculum. The essential question is How do people figure things out?” This week has been fun because we are reading poetry! We continued identifying how authors use “Figurative Language” to add details and interest to their writing AND we began writing our own poems!
Reading:
We enjoy our Guided Reading Groups each week. THANK YOU to our parents who led the groups Tue/Wed/Thu 11:40-12:15. We LOVE having you in class!! If you would like to join us, here is the link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4DAFAE2CA3F9C70-guided
Writing:
We published our poetry and will continue discovering the poets within us throughout the rest of this quarter!
Spelling: R-Controlled Words: /er/ spelled /ir/ /er/ /ur/ and /ear/
(Test will be on Monday)
Grammar Focus:
Quotation Marks
Colons in the time
Verbs
Continuing:
Homographs.
Open Syllables
Possessive Nouns
Closed Syllables
Collective Nouns: class, team, family
Irregular Plural Nouns: tooth/teeth, mouse/mice, deer, moose, woman/women, life/lives
Homophones
Prefixes un/re/dis
Plural Nouns, adding -s or -es AND changing the y to i
Common Nouns/Proper Nouns
Concrete Nouns/Abstract Nouns
Word Meanings, including multiple meanings
Math Topic 5: Multiplying and Dividing within 100
We are continuing to use all of our strategies as well as the Multiplication Chart to solve problems.
XtraMath.com
This is great math fact fluency practice at home! Let me know if your child earns a certificate!!
Khan Academy
Feel free to do this at home! We have been able to login a few times this week!
Science: Flower Power!
How could you make the biggest fruit in the world?
https://mysteryscience.com/flowers/mystery-4/trait-variation-inheritance-artificial-selection/92
Social Studies
Arizona Government and more!
Yearbooks for Sale!
https://store.shopyearbook.com/santan-yb
From our Family Engagement Committee (FEC)
Please join our school’s Family Engagement Committee’s (FEC) Facebook page. Here you will find school wide events that are coming up and ways to volunteer at school.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/620590539585576
Thank you again,
Jenn Jacobs and Heather Warren
The Family Engagement Committee (FEC)
San Tan Charter School
480-222-0811
From the Principal (Emailed Tuesday)
Monthly, I will be announcing a different “get together” for all San Tan Charter School families so we can spend some time together as a community. These events are not mandatory but they are a great opportunity to meet together and get to know each other!
December’s “Find Mrs. Laramie” will be a special holiday edition centering on a yearly event that happens right in our very own neighborhood. Bundle up because we will be parking in the school parking lot and walking “Christmas on Comstock” light display show!
Meet me at 6:30 on Saturday December 10th to collect together outside of the school to prepare to walk the Christmas on Comstock light display.
I hope to see you there!
Do you have an idea of an activity you would like to do to create a strong community? I would love to hear from you! I am looking for ideas of activities we could do together. Meeting at the zoo? At a park? Farmer markets? Where would you like to see STCS community members get together?
