Week of May 2 - 6

 

The following is all the important information you will need to know for the remainder of the school year:

• May 13: Track Meet *This has changed due to the weather on May 6.
• May 13: Book reports due
• May 20: Hesston Steam Museum - All School Field Trip
• May 24: Field Trip to the Potawatomi Zoo (Informational Note if needed)
• May 24: Girls on the Run 5K
• May 25 - 27: Swimming *This has changed from the last blog. We are NOT going May 9 - 13. Thank you for your flexibility!
• May 30: No School
• June 2: 3rd Grade Reading Camp (Informational Note if needed)
• June 8: School Picnic
• June 9: Half Day
• June 10: Half Day and Last Day of School

*Please do not forget to return the notes for the zoo (including the lunch choice note) and reading camp if you can volunteer. Remember, we need 16 volunteers for reading camp so we would love to have you!

Thank you SO much to everyone that showered us with love and appreciation this week! We are so lucky to have your children as our students and we have enjoyed this year teaching them! :)

Please note that we currently have only 4 volunteers for the reading camp. We need a total of 16 volunteers. If you could possibly volunteer we would love to be able to hold this fun event for the kids. We realize there are many volunteers needed for different events right now so we understand the difficulty. We will make a decision by May 18th if we are able to hold the camp. Please consider this as it is something the students will always remember about 3rd grade!

Hesston Steam Museum!

💚 An E. P. Clarke parent, Ted Rita has generously offered our students an amazing opportunity to visit the Hesston Steam Museum in LaPorte, IN. 

💚 Please check out their website at https://hesston.org

💚 We need a minimum of  4-5 chaperones per class to attend. 

💚 If you are available on May 20th,  please sign up with this link. 

💚 If you have multiple students in different grades, please only sign up for one class. 

💚 If your student's class is full, please reach out to Marci Smith msmith@stjoebears.com. 

Details: 

• All times listed are EST but note that Hesston is located in CST.
• Buses depart Clarke at 9am and depart from Hesston at 1:30pm.
• Parents will be driving separately. 
• You may follow the bus or plan to arrive at Hesston by 9:45.  
• Please plan to pack lunch as the students will have lunch on the premises. 
• A daily schedule and map will be provided closer to the event.

The kids will have an amazing day and we are so thankful for our parent volunteers that can attend.  We could not provide this opportunity without all of our amazing volunteers!! For safety reasons, no siblings are allowed.

E.P. Clarke End of Year Picnic!

💚  Wednesday, June 8.  

💚  This event requires many volunteers. 

💚  Let's create fun memories and celebrate our year at Clarke.  

💚  Volunteer opportunities include morning setup from 8:30-10 and running a station during the picnic from 12:30-3:30.   

💚  Volunteers, please sign up through this link.   

💚  For safety reasons, no siblings are allowed.  

💚  More details to follow once you sign up. 

💚  If you have any questions, please reach out to Meghan Cox at Meghan-cox@live.com or (269) 861-3138  

Thank you!

We will be taking the M-STEP math test next week on Tuesday. Please help make sure your child gets to school on time, had a great night's sleep, and has a good healthy breakfast!

This is our last state test of the year!

The next book report will be on May 13th. 

Reading at home is the most important thing your child can do!

Make this a non-negotiable in your house as it will pay off later.

💚What We Learned This Week 💚

💚Language Arts:  This week we finished learning about figurative language including smilies, metaphors, onomatopoeia, alliteration, and personification.

💚Writing: We are just beginning opinion writing. We are starting with zoo research (2 articles for zoos and 2 articles against zoos). After researching, we will form our own educated opinions and write to support our opinion based on facts, vivid verbs, and persuasive language.

💚Math: This week helped tie together perimeter and area for our students.

💚Science: All science units are completed for the year!

💚Social Studies:  Chapter 5 has just begun! We are now learning about all of the natural resources that Michigan has to offer. 

💚WORD STUDY💚

This week we will begin Unit 23 in word study. We will be learning about agents - people who do things and the type of endings they have. 

The words for Friday, May 13th are:

instructor, director, adviser, biker