Burnette Elementary

February 13, 2015

Dear Parents,

Below are updates for this week:

*  I will still accept Six Flags reading logs. Please send them in next week if you’d like a ticket to Six Flags.

*  In your child’s Friday Folder, you will find his or her ITBS/CoGAT results.

*  If you have not signed up for a parent-teacher conference, please do so. The link is on the Burnette website and in the Burnette Blast. I look forward to meeting with each of you. 

* The spring carnival is coming up on Friday, March 6^th. Our spring carnival basket still needs some goodies. Please send in anything related to WATER FUN to add to the basket by Monday, February 23^rd. Thanks to those who have already sent in supplies for the basket.  

School Wide Information
 

February 16- Student Holiday

February 19- Chick Fil A Spirit Night

February 23-27 – Book Fair

February 25-26 – Early Release/Parent-Teacher Conferences

Next Week at a Glance

Reading: Making Inferences (Cold Reading Friday)

Language Arts: Finishing informational writing; Complex and Compound Sentences (Test Feb. 18)

Word Study: probably, useful, either, himself, seen, girl, goose, gone, guide, garden, germ, gem, giant, gym, gentle, faster, smaller, prettier, earlier, greater
Social Studies: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Vocabulary Quiz Feb. 18^th)

Science – Forces and Motion (Vocabulary Test Feb. 26^th)

Math: Fractions (Partitioning Test Tuesday)

Tonight's homework:

Read for 20 minutes
Math p. 585-586
Study FDR vocabulary


We will exchange Valentines tomorrow. If you bought some for your classmates, don't forget them!

Also, tomorrow will be the LAST newsletter posted on this blog. We will start using the student portal to communicate information. Please have your child log into their eCLASS page to the view the newsletters. This week's newsletter will be posted here and on your child's eCLASS page.

Here is a link to the login page: https://publish.gwinnett.k12.ga.us/gcps/home/gcpslogin

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Hello! Tonight's homework is as follows:

Read 20 minutes
Word Work
Math p. 573-574
Study for Elanor Roosevelt Test

Tonight's homework is as follows:

Read for 20 minutes
Word Work
Study for Elanor Roosevelt Test

Have a great afternoon!

Burnette Elementary

February 6, 2015

Dear Parents,

Below are updates for this week:

• Mid-term reports are included in today’s Friday folder. Please sign and return the slip attached.
•   Six Flags reading logs are due this week (February 12). Please make sure to return the log to receive a free Six Flags ticket.
• Don’t forget, parent-teacher conferences will be held Feb. 25-26.  The link to sign up will be sent out today! I look forward to meeting with you all during our February Conferences. 
• Valentine’s Day is coming soon.  Students may bring in cards/small treats to share with the class on Friday, February 13. We have 25 students in our class, so please make sure to include everyone. 
•  Spring Carnival Silent Auction – our class is collecting items for a “Water Fun” basket.  Please refer to a previous email from Mrs. Mehok for more information. 

School Wide Information

February 6- Mid-term reports go home
February 6- Burnette Night with the Gwinnett Gladiators

February 19 – Chick-fil-A Spirit Night

February 23-27 – Book Fair

February 25-26 – Early Release/Parent-Teacher Conferences

Next Week at a Glance

Reading: Summarizing (Cold Reading Friday)
Language Arts: Informational Writing (Research); Types of Sentences

Word Study: money, usually, turned, amount, careful, card, cave, couch, curve, coin, cell, circle, citrus, celery, circus, joyful, playful, beautiful, truthful, powerful
Social Studies: Eleanor Roosevelt (Test Wednesday)

Math: Fractions

Hello! Tonight's homework is as follows:

Read for 20 minutes
Math p. 857-858
Study ER vocabulary
Study for conjunctions test on Friday (watch video on student portal and make sure study guide is complete)

Have a great afternoon!

Hello! Tonight's homework is as follows:

Read for 20 minutes
Word Work
Math p. 855-856
Study Elanor Roosevelt Vocab.
Conjunction worksheet

Also, don't forget, our field trip is this Thursday! If your child did not order a school lunch, please remember to pack one for him or her.

Have a great afternoon!

Burnette Elementary

January 30, 2015

Dear Parents,

Below are updates for this week:

1. February bookmarks were sent home today in Friday Folders. Please encourage your child to read each night!

2. Six Flag reading logs were given to your child earlier this week. They are due February 12^th. Six hours of reading is needed to obtain a free Six Flags ticket.

3. Don’t forget to mark your calendar for parent-teacher conferences which will be held Feb. 25-26.  The link to sign up will go out next Friday. I look forward to meeting with you all during our February Conferences. 

School Wide Information

February 6- Pajama Day
February 6- Midterm reports sent home

February 6 – Burnette Night with the Gwinnett Gladiators

February 16 – Student Holiday

February 19 – Chick-fil-A Spirit Night

February 23-27 – Book Fair

February 25-26 – Early Release/Parent-Teacher Conferences

Next Week at a Glance

Reading: Cause and Effect (Cold Reading Thursday)

Language Arts: Informational Writing; Conjunctions

Word Study: touch, divide, another, point, city, splash, split, splat, splinter, splurge, square, squash, squeak, squeeze, squirm, hopeless, powerless, endless, painless, colorless

Social Studies: Eleanor Roosevelt

Science: Fossils (Test Monday)

Math: Geometry continued (Test Friday)

Tonight's homework:

Read for 20 minutes
Study for fossils test (study guide is posted)

Homework for tonight is:

Read for 20 minutes
Math p. 850
Study for fossils test

Have a great afternoon!

Hello! Tonight's homework is as follows:

Read for 20 minutes
Math p. 843-844
Study fossil material

Have a great evening!

Hi! Tonight's homework is as follows:

Read for 20 minutes
Math p. 837-838
Study for fossil vocabulary quiz (Tuesday)

Have a great afternoon!

Dear Parents,

Below are updates for this week:

 Reading bookmarks are due this week! Please return on Thursday, January 29!  

If your child is interested in singing as part of the 3^rd, 4^th, and 5^th grade chorus, please be sure you turn in the form that was in your Friday folder last week from Mrs. Grant. 

Please join us for STEM Night on Thursday! Have your child log into the portal for a special message!

School Wide Information

January 23 – Bingo/Pizza Night
January 29 – STEM Night

February 6 - Burnette Night with the Gwinnett Gladiators

February 14 – Valentine’s Day
February 19 – Chick-fil-A Spirit Night

Next Week at a Glance

Reading: Analyzing Text (Cold Reading Thursday)

Language Arts: Informational writing; conjunctions

Word Study – No new words; Review week

Science: Fossils (Vocabulary Quiz Thursday, Test, Monday, Feb. 2)

Math: Geometry

Tonight's homework is as follows:

Read for 20 minutes
Word Work
Study fossil vocabulary
Review for subject/predicate test

Have a great evening!

Tonight's homework is as follows:

Read 20 minutes
Math p. 719-720
Word Work
Study fossil vocabulary (quiz Thursday)

Here is a cool fossil song the students heard today during science class!

http://safeshare.tv/w/sbAnpQdPGK

Have a great afternoon!

Parents,

Beginning Tuesday, Ms. Courtney Mieldezis will take over teaching Science, Social Studies, and Writing. If you have any questions about those subjects, please email her at courtney_mieldezis@gwinnett.k12.ga.us. I will still be your child’s homeroom teacher, and I will still teach reading and math, so feel free to continue emailing me with questions as well.

Don’t forget, there is no school Monday. We look forward to seeing your child bright and early Tuesday morning. We hope you have a wonderful, restful weekend!

Lauren  Ehlers, Ed. S.
Courtney Mieldezis

Third  Grade Teachers

Upcoming events:

January 19: MLK Day (no school)
January 23: Bingo Night
January 29: STEM Night
February 5: Third Grade Field Trip
February 5: Skate Country Spirit Night

Looking ahead to next week. . .

Reading Skill: Analyzing Text
Language Arts: Subject/Predicate (Test on Friday)
Math: Line Plots (Graphing and Data Test Friday)
Word Study: able, teacher, woke, angry, page, scratch, scrub, scream, scrape, stress, stripe, strong, spray, sprint, spring (we will review past roots)
Science: Fossils

Parents,

Please join us for STEM night on January 29. A flyer is attached below. Look for more information soon!

STEM Night Flyer

Tonight's homework is as follows:

Read for 20 minutes
Word work
Study for MMB test
Math p. 701-702

Have a great evening!

Hello! Tonight's homework is as follows:

Read for 20 minutes
Word work
Math p. 695-696
Study MMB vocabulary

Have a great evening!

Dear Parents,

Happy New Year!!! It has been great to be back with the students this week.  As you know, we have welcomed Ms. Courtney Mieldezis into our classroom. She has been a great addition this week, and she will soon begin teaching your child science, social studies, and writing. Below are a few reminders about this week’s Friday Folder.

·       Reading bookmarks for January are included in each student’s folder.  

·       Report cards are included in each folder this week.  Please review grades with your child.  You may keep the report card; sign and return the report card envelope on Monday. 

·       Bingo/Pizza Night is coming up on January 23^rd.  Included in the folder is an order form if you plan to attend. 

School Wide Information

January 15: Chick-fil-A night

January 19: MLK holiday

January 23: Bingo/Pizza Night

Next Week at a Glance

Reading: Paired passages; theme

Language Arts: Subject/Predicate (Quiz Wednesday); Continue working on capitalization and punctuation

Word Study: although, clothes, huge, problem, use, shoe, ship, shrimp, shrink, shred, think, thank, throw, thrill, three, graph, autograph, biography, photograph, telegraph

Social Studies: Mary McLeod Bethune (Test Thursday)

Math: Graphing

Tonight's homework is as follows:

Read for 20 minutes
Word work
Study MMB vocabulary
Math p. 818-819

Have a great afternoon!

Tonight's homework is as follows:

Read for 20 minutes
Word Work
Study MMB vocabulary
Math p. 795-796

I hope you all had a great winter break! Tonight's homework is as follows:

Read for 20 minutes
Word work
Complete sentences worksheet
Study Mary Mcleod Bethune vocabulary words
Math p. 809-810

Have a great afternoon!