Making Lanterns in Chinese!

Grandparent's Day

An Invitation to Grandparents Day

TO: Kalona Elementary Grandparents

For Kindergarten through 5th

 grade

The Kalona Elementary Boosters, in conjunction with students and

invite grandparents or a senior guest from the community to the annual

staff, are pleased to

School Carol Sing.

DATE: December 20th, 2013 (Friday)

TIME: 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Schedule for the morning

8:30 - 8:45 Grandparents seated

9:00 - 10:00 Carol singing in the gym

10:00 - 10:15 – Cookies and coffee served to the guests in the gym,

compliments of the Kalona Elementary Boosters and

5th Grade Students.

10:15 - 11:00 - Classroom visitation time

11:00 Visitation time is over.

If you have special parking needs, please contact Kalona Elementary at

656-2243 for assistance.

We thank you for coming and hope you enjoy your visit!

How to Light a Lightbulb!

Check out our videos about how to light a lightbulb!  We made these in science today!

3rd Grade Lightbulb Playlist

Book Orders!

Book Orders will close at 10:00 p.m. tonight!

National Education Week Posters

The students of 3Y helped Mrs. Young out today!  They made posters to hang up at school to inform students about the dress up days for next week!  A big thank you to my wonderful class! :)

Dividing Cheez-Its!

To start thinking about Division Mrs. Young gave us Cheez-Its.....but she didn't give us equal numbers or a package for each student!  We had to split up the bag evenly between our group and find out if there was any remainders!

Cup Stacking World Record!

American Education Week

Hello!

In honor of American Education Week next week we will be having 3 "Dress Up" days at Kalona Elementary!  They are as follows:

Monday- Favorite Sweatshirt Day.
Wednesday- Red, White, and Blue Day.
Friday -School Logo or Black and Gold Day. 

Thanks!
Mrs. Young

Cold Weather

Cold weather has come!  Please remember to send winter weather clothing for recess!  We have had some cold ears and fingers the last 2 days!  :)

Multiplication Flash Cards

Multiplication flash cards will be coming home in the SPACE folders.  It is not a requirement that these be done at home, but the third graders were very excited  about starting this and wanted some!  :)   We will be practicing multiplication facts at school, and will be doing quick tests on them on Fridays.  To move on to the next set of flash cards you must master the ones that come before it.  The requirement for this is to correctly finish the test in 2 minutes or less.  I will send home any of the flash cards your student will need to practice. Right now this is either the x2 or x2 and x3 cards.

Do We Stay or Do We Go?

Today we started reading Little House on the Prairie.  We spent some time time today discussing the Oregon Trail and how families made the decision to head West or stay put.

What Can Electricity Do?

We kicked off our new science unit today!  We started learning about electrical circuits.  Mrs. Young gave us 1 wire, 1 battery, and 1 lightbulb and we had to figure out how to get that lightbulb to light!

Testing Advice

This was shared with us from Mr. Schneider in our Daily Memo, but I thought I would pass this along.  (It was shared with the kids today!)

“We are concerned that these tests do not always assess all of what it is that make each of you special and unique. The people who create these tests and score them do not know each of you-- the way your teachers do, the way I hope to, and certainly not the way your families do. They do not know that many of you speak two languages. They do not know that you can play a musical instrument or that you can dance or paint a picture. They do not know that your friends count on you to be there for them or that your laughter can brighten the dreariest day. They do not know that you write poetry or songs, play or participate in sports, wonder about the future, or that sometimes you take care of your little brother or sister after school. They do not know that you have traveled to a really neat place or that you know how to tell a great story or that you really love spending time with special family members and friends. They do not know that you can be trustworthy, kind or thoughtful, and that you try, every day, to be your very best... the scores you get will tell you something, but they will not tell you everything. There are many ways of being smart.”

Book Orders

Book Orders will be due Friday, November 15th.  If you would like to order things for the holiday season, and would not like anyone to see them, just let me know and I can set them aside and hold them for you!  This will be the last book order before the Holiday season, the next book order will be in January!

Thanks!
Mrs. Young

3rd Grade Science Night!

Punctuation Practice!

Today we practiced punctuation by using the game Comma Chameleon!  You can find a link to this game on our Symbaloo page on the blog!  3Y really enjoyed this!