DAA Shirt Signing Permission

Dear Parents,

A few of the students would like to have their DAA uniform shirt (either one) signed by other students as a nice memory. Please let me know your preference about this by filling out this form.

Thank you!

Ms. Laura 

End-of-Year Party

Dear Parents, 

I want to sincerely thank you joining us and contributing to our End-of-Year party today! The children seemed to have a fantastic time showcasing their talent, eating yummy food, and spending some final time all together as a class family. 

I'm especially grateful for the generous gifts you gave and the kind words you spoke. I agree that it's been a truly memorable year, one that has left it's mark on my heart, as well. These precious children (and you) will be sorely missed! 

I will share some more pictures of the party when I have more time this weekend, but for now, I'll leave you with my favorite one. P

With gratitude, 

Ms. Laura 

Ramadan Schedule

As we enter into the holy month of Ramadan, please take note of the new schedule, which goes into effect on Thursday, June 18th: 

8:00 - Teachers arrive 

8:15 - Students welcome in classrooms

8:30 - Period 1

9:00 - Period 2

9:30 - Period 3 (Snack/Recess is from 9:45-10:00) 

10:00 - Period 4

10:30 - Period 5

11:00 - Period 6

11:30 - Period 7 (*Fasting during lunch) 

12:00 - Period 8

12:30 - Period 9

1:00 - Period 10 (*Prayer time) 

1:30 - Dismissal 

1:45 - Busses depart 

2:00 - Teachers leave 

A few more notes for those children who may be fasting:

• Students who are fasting will be staying indoors for recess. They will be supervised by Ms. Saima in Ms. Olivia's classroom, where they will also gather during snack and lunch periods. This will be a quiet, reflective, and restful time for them. 

• Students will also be given the opportunity to pray. This will occur during Period 10 when children will be in Islamic class, with the exception of Monday, Day 9, when they will go to the ES Conference room between 1:00-1:15 to pray. 

• Students will go to PE with the class, yet will not partake in any physically demanding activities. If they prefer to sit on the side as a spectator, that is also perfectly acceptable. We want to make the week as pleasant as possible as they build their fasting skills and challenge themselves in a greater way spiritually. 

To review the letter Jim Hardin recently sent, please click here. 

We are looking forward to a wonderful last week together during this very special time! 

Thanks so much for your support. 

Missing Library Books

It's that time of year for us to clean out our libraries and return items! Our class, 3LN, returned many books; however, we still have 16 outstanding. Yikes! It's a mystery! 

I know some students may have borrowed them from our class to use for research or for their own reading pleasure, so would you mind having a look at home for these books? Thanks so much! 

Here are a list of the titles: 

Ghosts
  Call #: 133.1 GOR
  Barcode: T 15539

Ghosts
  Call #: 133.1 GUY
  Barcode: T 18517

The golden retriever
  Call #: 636.7 WIL
  Barcode: T 1523

Sweets and snacks
  Call #: 641.3 MAR
  Barcode: T 100746

How to draw Hungary's sights and symbols
  Call #: 743 HOW
  Barcode: T 15671

Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov
  Call #: 921 ANA
  Barcode: T 23162

Mandela : the rebel who led his nation to freedom
  Call #: 921 MAN
  Barcode: T 14679

England
  Call #: 942 DAH
  Barcode: T 8361

China
  Call #: 951 OLS
  Barcode: T 8862

Because of Winn-Dixie
  Call #: DVD FIC WINN
  Barcode: T 12732

Animal life cycles
  Call #: J 571.8 GAN
  Barcode: T 10661

Boxers
  Call #: J 636.73 MEI
  Barcode: T 5901

The wild side of pet cats
  Call #: J 636.8 WAT
  Barcode: T 16890

Chocolate : riches from the rainforest
  Call #: J 641.3 BUR
  Barcode: T 4529

How is chocolate made?
  Call #: J 641.3 ROY
  Barcode: T 15649

Measuring time at a race
  Call #: J 796.42 IRV
  Barcode: T 23864
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Items Overdue: 16

FREE Pizza!

A DAAPA Treat

This Thursday, pizza will be provided by DAAPA. Every child is guaranteed 2 slices of pizza, juice and a yogurt or fruit. 

If you would prefer your child eat a lunch from home, that's perfectly fine as well. 

A big thanks to DAAPA for their generosity! 

*News to Note*

News to Note

I want to thank you for being so flexible last week as I was absent for 3 days due to laryngitis and bronchitis. It hit me pretty hard, but thanks to plenty of rest and antibiotics, I'm almost good to go now. A big thank you to Ms. Csilla, who cared for and taught the class while I was away. It felt so good knowing that the class was in such good hands. 

Here are a few other newsworthy items to share: 

• Congratulations to Kiek's twin sisters and Lucia's brother who graduated from Grade 5. Well done! We're so proud of you! 

• The ES Library will be hosting a Book Souk on June 9. This will be a great way to clear your shelves, and stock up on some free reading material for summer! Students have until Monday, June 8, to bring in "gently used" books. Students will receive a credit for each book brought in to select a different book at the souk. Please send books appropriate for grades 3-5, and no more than 10 books per student.

• Please mark your calendars for our End-of-Year Party on Wednesday, June 17, from 1:30-2:30. The theme will be "3LN Has Talent" and an opportunity for our cuties to showcase their unique gifts and abilities. So, start preparing, students! 
• Singing, acting, dancing, paper plane flying, impersonations, story-telling, fashion, drawing, comedy, horse-riding, tennis? What can you do well?! 
• If you have a talent that is not easily performed in the classroom, please pre-record it and send it to me as a file or on a flash drive by June 16, so I can have it ready without any glitches. 
• Also, if there are any who do not wish to participate, that's no problem. We want to make your party as fun and stress-free as possible. :) 

• Library books and textbooks: The time has come for us to return all of our beloved borrowed books back to their homes. This includes both library books and the EverydayMath Student Reference Book. Most of these SRB's have been kept in the classroom, however, please note that these books must be returned in order for students to end the year with a clear account and receive their report cards. Please send the book in with your child as soon as you are finished with it, if you happen to have yours at home. Thank you in advance!

• As we starting to have more indoor recesses these days, we are starting to enjoy a fantastic series called Wild Arabia by BBC. We started watching the first one today, since we studied so much about the Bedouin this year (as well as animal adaptations, climate, weather, and dependent relationships in ecosystems), and the class was mesmerized. Here are the episodes if you'd like to view them at home. 
• Episode 1: Sand, Wind, and Stars 
• Episode 2: Jewel of Arabia
• Episode 3: Shifting Sands 

Academic News: 

• Reading and Writing: We have just finished our Reading for Research and Informational Writing, so that means that most all of the students books have been published!! Overall, they are outstanding and I'm pleased with the amount of time, effort, and accuracy that has been put in to each one. We will now be moving back into fiction reading and starting poetry. 

• Math: Unit 9 is now complete, so we will be reviewing on Monday (June 8) and testing on Wednesday (June 10). I'll be sending home a review packet tomorrow, which is very comprehensive and challenging. (If you can do the review, the test will be a piece of cake!) On Thursday, I will be giving the End-of-Year Assessment, which requires no studying or preparation. It's just a way for me to evaluate how much your child remembers from all of the many skills we learned this year. (Many of these kinds of questions are reoccurring on math tests anyway, as part of our spiral curriculum.) Finally, we will start Unit 10 next, Measurement, which will be our last unit. We will study length, volume, and weight. 

• Science: Our unit on Extreme Weather will be concluding soon and we will move into Forces and Motion, which connects nicely. I will be giving the class a kind of open response assessment at the end of the week, but again, this is not something that you need to study or prepare for. Rather, it's an application of the knowledge and concepts they have been learning in class. PS. Hopefully, your child brought home his/her anemometer today. These have been fun for measuring wind speeds! 

I think that's it. Thanks so much for all of your wonderful support. With only about 3 weeks left, I'm really starting to feel sad about saying good-bye to "my" precious children! 

PS. This is a pretty funny article, which describes how a few of you may be feeling right about now. I was thinking one of us teachers should write one from our perspective. :) 

Teachers doing normal stuff: Here's our lovely Grade 3 Team (minus Ms. Tami and Ms. Rashmi) having breakfast on Saturday at the Pavillion downtown. Delicious and fun! 

DAA Staff Talent Show

For those of you who were able to make it to the talent show, it looked like it was a truly memorable (and hilarious) evening of fun! 

If you weren't able to attend, please enjoy these clips, which capture just a little of the amusement: 

• DAA Staff Talent Show: Problems
• DAA Staff Talent Show: Dance 
• Trouble in Grade 2 (since my class LOVED watching their former teachers...again!) 
• Teacher Jammies (Grade 2 Teachers in 2014-15) 

Hopefully, next year you will see Grade 3 Teachers up there, too!