Happy Friday!

We’ve had a great week here in the classroom. This week we continued to explore Antarctica and have learned many fascinating things about it. We have also been working on homographs, triangle classified by sides, and fractions. We are all still bug free as of this morning!!! J On Thursday, we celebrated our 100^th day of school and the third graders got to test out the new testing interface.

Parent teacher conferences are coming up in February. For these conferences we will be doing things a little bit differently. The children have been working hard to pick different works in the classroom that they are really proud of and want to show you. They will be writing reflections on their works and then presenting the reflection and work to you during our conference time. The only real change for you as parents is please make sure your child can attend our conference time. If this means you need to make an adjustment to the time we had last conference time, please let me know as soon as you can and we can work something out. In addition, if you feel like there is anything that you like to discuss with me without your child being present, just let me know and we can set up another date to address that. Your children have been working hard and are excited to show you all that they have learned!

Upcoming Dates:

·      Monday, February 16^th: No School for President’s Day

·      Wednesday and Thursday, February 18^th and 19^th: Parent Teacher Conferences

·      Friday, February, 20^th: No School for Professional Development

·      Snack Schedule

Monday: Poppy

Tuesday: Hodaka

Wednesday: Maggie

Thursday: Max

Friday: Jacinta

Have a great weekend! 

Happy Friday!

We’ve been busy here at school. This week we continued to explore Antarctica and the many different kinds of penguins, conjunctions, fractions, and parts of a triangle. Congrats also to all the 3^rd graders who participated in Battle of the Books last Wednesday! They all did great!

Another packet about bed bugs is going home today. They have placed a beg bug detector in our classroom and are checking it each day. As of this morning, there were no bugs found! Yippee! J If you still have concerns, feel free to contact our principal or nurse. Also if you would like to send in a plastic bag or tub for your child to keep their personal belongings in, please feel free to do so. Thanks for remaining calm during all of this!

For our 3^rd grade parents, a handout it going home today about the new standardized testing. There will no longer be SBAs, instead were now are having AMP. The testing will also now be on the computers instead of paper based, therefore on this Thursday all the schools in Alaska will be testing the interface to make sure it can handle that many users at one time.

Upcoming Dates:

·      Snack Schedule

Monday: Christina

Tuesday: Jaeda

Wednesday: Talia

Thursday: Heike

Friday: Keith

Have a great weekend! 

Happy Friday!

We’ve been busy here at school. This week we continued to explore Antarctica and the many different kinds of penguins, homonyms, fractions, and finding the area of rectangles. On Tuesday we learned all about Mars exploration and the different Mars rovers on our field trip and then had a great discussion after lunch about which rover was our favorite. Congrats also to all the brave 3^rd graders who participated in the spelling bee! Next week is Battle of the Books on Wednesday, the 21^st. Since our library day falls on a Wednesday, for next week only because of Battle of the Books, we will be having library at 10:35am on Tuesday, the 20^th.

There will be no school on Monday for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, so enjoy your long weekend and see you on Tuesday!

FYI: A notice on pink paper is coming home today about bed bugs. Please read it over and if you have any questions about it, please feel free to contact our principal or school nurse.

More information can also be found at http://www.asdk12.org/healthservices/

Upcoming Dates:

·      Monday, January 21^st: No school for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

·      Wednesday, January 21^st: Denali Battle of the Books.

·      Snack Schedule

Tuesday: Edison

Wednesday: Kaaliyah

Thursday: Shahil

Friday: Ayden

Have a great weekend! 

Happy Friday!

We’ve had a great week back at school. This week we started our exploration of Antarctica, worked on measurement and finding perimeters of quadrilaterals, fractions, and pronouns. Today we had a guest speaker, an anthropologist and archaeologist, and come in and talk to us about early humans.

Next Tuesday, the 13^th, we have our field trip to the PAC to see the National Geographic Live presentation from Kobie Boykins, a NASA engineer who works with the Mars Rovers. We will be leaving the school at 9:45am and returning around 12. Thanks to everyone who has sent in the permission form for this trip! If I have not received your permission form, I am sending another one home today. Report cards are also coming home today from second quarter. This is a copy for you to keep. Please let me know if you have any questions.

We have some fun school evens coming up in the next few weeks. Next Thursday, the 15^th,  9:10am will be Denali’s spelling bee for the third graders and the upper grades. Then on Wednesday, the 21^st, Denali will be having it’s Battle of the Books for 3^rd and 4^th graders.

Upcoming Dates:

·      Tuesday, January, 13^th, 9:45-12:00: Field trip to PAC to see National Geographic Live.

·      Thursday, January 15^th, 9:10am:  Denali Spelling Bee.

·      Monday, January 21^st: No school for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

·      Wednesday, January 21^st: Denali Battle of the Books.

·      Snack Schedule

Monday: Carly

Tuesday: Evan

Wednesday: Pia

Thursday: Dylan

Friday: Gabriel

Have a great weekend! 

Happy Monday!

Welcome back! I hope everyone had a wonderful break. We had a great day back in the classroom, sharing all the fun things we did over break and diving into new subject areas and lessons.

Permission forms went home today for our field trip on Tuesday, January 13th, to the second National Geographic Live presentation at the PAC, which is being presented by Kobie Boykins, a NASA engineer who works with the Mars exploration rovers. We will be leaving at 9:45am and returning around noon. This is a free field trip and it should be a lot of fun! Thanks and have a wonderful rest of your Monday!