Up and Coming Important Dates to Remember

Friday, March 15th:
-Park Clean-up Day
-Early Release - 11:45am
-End of 3rd Quarter Grading Period

Wednesday, March 13th:
-Chic fil A: .$92 chic fil a sandwiches

Monday, March 18th - Friday, March 22nd
-Spring Break/School Holiday

Thursday, March 28th:
-Field Trip/Bob Bullock Museum

Friday, March 29th:
-Good Friday/Holiday

Monday, April 1st:
-Easter/School Holiday

Wednesday, April 3rd:
-Resurrection Egg Hunt

Friday, April 12th:
-Grandparents' Day

Monday, April 22nd:
-Earth Day

Lent: Growing Closer to God!

Here in the Episcopal church we are getting ready for the season of Lent. Today in my class we did a little preparation so the children are prepared for Ash Wednesday. During Lent, we do things to help us to know God better and the life of God's son, Jesus. Sometimes we spend extra time in prayer or in reading the Bible. Some people make the choice to give up something like television or chocolate. Years ago, people did not eat rich foods such as butter, eggs, or sugar during the Lent season. This brought about the tradition of Shrove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday as some call it, to eat all those things you wouldn't allow yourself to eat during this season.

The children and I also talked about the story of Jesus in the Wilderness from Matthew 4:1-11. See if your child remembers the 3 temptations of Christ.

All the children are coming home with a little pipe cleaner pretzel. If you would like to see the story and tradition they learned about, you can retell the story below to your child or have them tell it to you.

Angelo and the Pretzel

A long time ago, there was a monk in Italy named Angelo. Angelo worked in the monastery kitchen baking bread.

One morning, Angelo began to bake the day's bread. Since it was Lent, he didn't put any butter, eggs or sugar into the dough.

While the bread was in the oven, Angelo sat down to think and pray. The children in his parish didn't seem to be learning their prayers. He wished he could come up with a clever way to help them remember. As Angelo thought, he rolled a leftover piece of dough between his fingers.

In his day, the children were taught to fold their arms across their chest when they prayed. Angelo kept on thinking as he rolled that piece of leftover dough.

Suddenly, he had an idea! Angelo twisted the rolled piece of dough into the shape of praying arms.

He put the dough on a pan and baked it. Angelo got busy cleaning the kitchen and let the dough bake too long. But when he tasted it, he decided it was delicious.

"I will call this treat a 'pretiola' (preh-zi-o-la) which means 'little reward,'" he said. "My treat will be a reward for the children who learn their prayers."

That afternoon, Angelo baked an entire batch of pretiolas. When the children came to the bakery to visit him, he gave the pretiolas to those who knew their prayers.

Before long, all the children began to remember their prayers, and they ate batch after batch of pretiolas.

And that's the story of a monk named Angelo and the very first pretzel.

Books of the Bible

Every week the third graders memorize a Bible Verse.

Beginning today, they started working on memorizing Books of the Bible, Part I of the Old Testament.  Your child has this in their Take-home Folder.

Next week, we will focus on Part II of the Old Testament.  The following week, the student's will recite the Old Testament.

We will begin the New Testament the first week in March.

 

 

Field Trip

Glass Blowing

Friday, January 18, 2012

Depart CCS: 8:45
Return CCS: Noon

Cost:  $12

No Tests for this week:

Spelling:

There will be no spelling test,  no math test, and no memorized Bible Verse for Friday.

We will review lesson 13-17 on Monday.

 

Math:

Math homework due Friday morning: Monday night 51E, Tuesday night 52O, and Wednesday night 53E. Lesson 54 will be done together in class but please feel free to review further with your child at home.

No math test next week.

Bible Verse:

We will continue looking at the Jesse Tree Bible Verses, but the student’s will not memorize a Bible verse for next week.

Jesse Tree Tradition at Christ Church School

 

The Jesse Tree is a tradition that began in the Medieval Church and arose from the scripture in Isaiah 11:1 in which the coming of the Messiah is prophesied as being of the House and lineage of David, from the stump of Jesse.  There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.  The symbols from the Old Testament, which are used as ornaments on the Jesse Tree, are seen as foreshadowing the coming of Jesus.  We have simply combined the Jesse Tree traditions with our school Advent Calendar.  (Note: in order to cover all of the days of December through the 25th before school is out on Friday, 21st, the last week's schedule has extra days of reading from later in the month.)

Weekly Bible Verses for the month of December

Every week the student's memorize a Bible Verse from our Copybook Cursive Scripture and Poems Book and then recite it to me on Friday morning's. For the month of December, I will choose a weekly Bible Verse from the Jesse Tree Bible Stories. They will receive a copy of the Bible Verse every Monday morning, and will also write the Bible Verse in their Student Organizer.

For Friday, December 7, 2012

Genesis 1:3-5

3. And God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. 5. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

GREEK WEEK

         

Monday, November 26th - Friday, November 30th  

                                                                                           

You child has a Greek Week Packet in their take home folder.  Enclosed in the packet is a 'how-to' on creating toga attire with a sheet for your child to easily wear over his/her uniform.

Monday:  Mrs. Tollett has graciously supplied the time, along with the materials for arts and crafts.  She will guide the students on making their crowns and jewelry to wear throughout the week with their Toga attire, along with a couple of other arts and crafts that also pertain to Greek Mythology that we have learned.
Tuesday:  Third grade will have a guest speaker, Zoe's father, Mr. Barnes.  We look forward to learning additional information that Mr. Barnes will share about Greek Mythology.
Wednesday:  Greek Luncheon will start at 11am.  If you plan to attend, please contact Cindy Scott as soon as possible so that we can send a head count out for those of us that are preparing food.  Cindy has willingly donated her time to coordinate this special lunch for our children.  We plan on decorating the library for the luncheon.  If you can help in any way, or have suggestions, please speak to Cindy Scoot as soon as possible.
Directly preceding the luncheon, two skits will take place in the gymnasium.  Our production manager, Mrs. Sellers will oversee the performance of our third graders silently acting. 
Thursday:  Our class will further discuss and participate in Olympic style events on the outside CCS field.  Please make sure that your child has shoes that will not rub blisters, especially the girls that wear slip-ons. 
Friday:  We will finish Greek Week up.

I look forward to this hands-on learning experience for our third graders.

A BiG thank you to Susan Sellers, Camille Tollett, and Cindy Scott.     

Every Friday

Change of plans due to Sharing Feast before Early Release at 11:45 on Friday, November 16th.
-3rd Grade Class will contribute desserts to the Sharing Feast.  Our class will prepare Pumpkin Pudding made from the ingredients contributed from each student.
Thus,
-Spelling Test will take place Thursday morning.
-Bible Verse that is to be memorized will be said on Thursday morning.
-Reading Log will be turned in, graded, and returned back to the student on Thursday.  This way they will have it over the holidays.  Their Reading Beading & Succeeding necklaces are rapidly growing.  I am so proud of them. 

Sharing Feast

We would be honored to have you at our table for the Sharing Feast.  You child brought home a information form regarding this event that will take place on Friday, November 16th at 11am.

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Veterans Day

November 11 of each year is the day that we ensure veterans know that we deeply appreciate the sacrifices they have made in the lives to keep our country free.

Music Appreciation: G.F. Handel

Today 3rd graders did a little Baroque period music appreciation after their other music lessons. We listened to "La giustizia" from Handel's opera, "Giulio Cesare." The students listened and identified music families, tempo, dynamics and tone color. Listen with them again and have them talk to you about some of the things we discussed. We also identified a new instrument: The Harpsichord!

Later this week we will do more listening from pieces such as Handel's oratorio, "The Messiah" and other composition such as "Water Music" and "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" from "Solomon".

Weekly Bible Verse
For when I was hungry, you gave me meat;
I was thirsty, and you gave me drink;
I was a stranger, and you took me in;
and clothed me;
I was in prison, and you came unto me.

Matthew 25:35-36

Reminder:
Next week, November 5th - November 9th, is CCS Book Fair.  

Latin in song!

Ask your child about this picture.

The third graders appear to love Latin! We have learned vocabulary for lessons 1-15 in our text Prima Latina. We've also been working on the Pater Noster (the Lord's Prayer in Latin), which many of them now know very well. 

Here's a sense of the structure of our week:
On Tuesdays, we review and add more vocabulary words, most recently taking them from the Latin hymns we're memorizing. So far, they know "Veni, Veni, Immanuel" (O Come Immanuel) and "Adeste Fidelis" (O Come All Ye Joyful). We're currently working on the second verse for each of those songs. Songs are a wonderful and enjoyable way to pick up common vocabulary words and grammar in context. On Thursdays, we review using games and read a Roman myth.

We hope to show off our Latin at the Christmas program. If you want to quiz your children on their Latin, here are a few words from our list:
natus, regis, angelus, adeste, venio, video, triumpho, laetus, fidelis, laudo, clamo, ambulo, navigo, porto, oro, laboro, specto, amo, adoro, habito, judico, paro, libero, regina, stella, silva, terra, unda, aqua, cena, corona, mensa, veni, captivum, solve, qui, gemit, exsilio, privatus, Dei, gaude, nascetur

If you'd like to help your child finish memorizing the Pater Noster, here it is:

Pater noster, qui es in caelis:

sanctificetur Nomen Tuum;

adveniat Regnum Tuum;

fiat voluntas Tua,

sicut in caelo, et in terra.

Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie;

et dimitte nobis debita nostra,

sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris;

et ne nos inducas in tentationem;

sed libera nos a Malo

Weekly Bible Verse

Now when Jesus was born
in Bethlehem of Judea
in the days of Herod the king,
behold, there came wise men
from the east to Jerusalem, saying,
Where is He that is born king of the Jews?
For we have seen His star in the east
and are come to worship Him.
Matthew 2:1-2

Next week

OCTOBER

29 Last day to turn in Box Tops
31  All Saints' Day
31 Report Cards sent home

  NOVEMBER

1  50th Day of School - Dress attire for 3rd Grade: 1950's. 
2  Park Workday

Third grade, think of spinach and Popeye. 
                          Food for Families
Each class has been asked to participate in bringing non-perishable canned foods by color. 
The class that brings in the most items each week will be awarded a treat.  Items will be counted each Thursday, and a final count will be determined on November 15th. 
                     
Bring  "green" non-perishable food in a can to contribute to those in need.

Mrs. Pipes will reward the 3rd grade student that brings in the most cans. 

Thank you for your generosity as we ask for help feeding those in need.

Our 3rd Graders during the Fire Truck Visist.

Focus For This Week

This week 3rd graders will center on:
Reptiles & Amphibians, Hannah & Eli (1 Samual 1 & 2), go on with The Magician's Nephew, carry on with Homer & The Greek Mythology (Aeus, Hera, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, & Ares),  continue memorization of Prepostional Jingles and the 49 prepositions,  as well as the memorization of multiplication families, review fractions, focus on subtracting 3-digit numbers with regrouping, multiplication patterns, area, squares and square roots.

Important days this week for your 3rd grader:

     Thursday, October 18th:  CAC Hands-on Czechoslovakian Heritage 11:30-2:30


     Friday, October 19th:  Canterbury Faire - early release