Museum of Science and Industry Field Trip (Continued)

Museum of Science and Industry Field Trip

Weeks of 3/15/10 & 3/22/10

Dear Parents/Guardians,

Happy St. Patrick's Day! This week, students are wrapping up chapters in multiple subjects. There will be a lot of reviewing going on this week during and after school. Students have 2 tests on Friday: (1) science concepts such as matter, mass, volume, properties, chemical changes, and physical changes; and (2) social studies concepts such as national, state, and local governments, rules and laws, and taxes. These are fairly complex topics so students should spend multiple afternoons preparing for the test. In math, students just wrapped up the final multiplication chapter. We will begin division this week. Students will finish unit 5 in English this week as well. They will complete the review from the book on Thursday. They will have the entire weekend to work on this. It will be due Monday, and the test will be on Tuesday, March 23rd. We will have an all school mass this Friday.

Happy Spring! For the week of March 22nd, students will continue with chapters 18-20 of Because of Winn Dixie. There will be new vocabulary activities for these next chapters, so be on the lookout for these. Students will start Chapter 4 in Social Studies titled, "Communities at Work." This chapter will introduce subjects such as consumers, producers, profit, income, and many other economic topics. In English, students will begin the unit on pronouns. In Science, students will begin a chapter on forces, machines, and work. On April 29th, St. Sylvester will hold a school-wide science fair. All third graders will be expected to create a simple machine for this event. This chapter will help prepare students for this. More information regarding the science fair will be sent home at a later date.