Monday 8/25 First
Day of School: Tardy bell is at 8:20
(3-A students
usually start working at the first 8:15 bell.)
Summer Reading is due.
Tuesday 8/26 Return
your Friday Folder.
Thursday 8/28 High-Use
Writing Words #1-99 assessment.
Friday 8/29 Check
to see if there is swimming during P.E.
Remember your suit & towel!
Monday 9/1 No
School: Labor Day
Tuesday 9/2 Return
your Friday Folder.
Math Facts & DIBELS
assessments begin in all three third grade classroom.
Thursday 9/4 High-Use
Writing words #100-149 assessment.
Monday 9/8 Arts
Around on George Catlin’s & Karl Bodmer’s Native American Art @ 2:30.
Parents
may join the class for Arts Around.
Tuesday 9/9 Arts
Around on Winslow Homer’s “Snap the Whip” and
Parents
may join the class for Arts Around.
Wednesday 9/10 3-A
Overnight at the
Thursday 9/11 Return from the 3-A Overnight @
2:30ish.
Back to School Night for Parents
Tuesday 9/16 Picture
Day
Thursday 9/18 High-Use
Writing Words #150-199 assessment.
All-School
Read-In
3-A
students need to bring 2 picture books to read with their Pre-K Buddies.
Friday 9/19 PCC
Overnight Book: 2 sections need to be
completed.
Monday 9/22 No Classes – Faculty
Professional Day
Tuesday 9/23 Mrs. Miller’s Storytelling of Fairplay’s “Silverheels” @ 2:00. Parents are welcome to join us.
Thursday 9/25 Field Trip to
Students ride on school buses and need to
bring a sack lunch. (No eating on the
bus.) Fairplay
is at 9896 feet and the museum is outside, so students need to dress for cold
weather. Parents may join us for this
field trip, either riding on the school buses or driving by car and meeting us
there. It takes 1½ to 2 hours to drive
to Fairplay.
We leave school at 8:30 a.m. and return around 2:30 p.m.
Friday 9/26 Homecoming Assembly in the
Gym
Third Grade Word Study groups begin.
Saturday 9/27 Homecoming
Monday 9/29 Overnight Book is due for all
third graders.
Johnny Appleseed Day
Arts Around
Presentation on Sculpture @ 2:15
Apple
Carving & Snacks @ 2:30
The boys & girls wear read or dress like Johnny Appleseed with
overalls, a pot on their head, old jeans, etc.
We start with an Arts Around presentation. Then the children carve apples. The apples dry for a month and then we make
apple head puppets. Parents are welcome
(and encouraged) to join us to help carve the apples.
Tuesday 9/30
Mrs. Andrews leads the tour. We
walk around the CA campus to learn about the sculptures & write in
journals. Parents are encouraged to join
us for this tour.
Thursday 10/2 First Spelling-Dictation Test in
3-A.
Friday
10/3
All third graders will
go to the museum for a class on Mining, a class about Cowboys, and a
teacher-guided tour to prepare for Saturday Docents. Sack lunches are provided by CA. We do not need parents for this trip…
sorry.
October 6-10 Facts Test: addition &
subtraction. Students will be tested
individually during Specials.
Tuesday
10/7
All third graders will
go to the museum for a class on Ancient Ones, a class about Fur Trade, and a
teacher-guided tour to prepare for Saturday Docents. Sack lunches are provided by CA. We do not need parents for this trip… sorry.
Friday 10/10 Teddy
Bear Day
Students in all three
classes will bring their teddy bears for the day. We’ll learn about President Theodore
Roosevelt’s hunting trip in
Tuesday 10/14 Guest Speaker (&
Dr. Ruder will talk about “Colorado Mining Today” with all three third
grade classes.
Parents may join our class.
October 16 & 17 No School - Parent-Teacher
Conferences
Monday 10/20 No School – Fall Break
Thursday 10/23 Science Night in the
Science Field Trip to
Mrs. Koniz and the three third grade classes
will tour the
Monday 10/27 Lewis & Clark Day
Students can be Naya Nuki,
Sacajawea, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, York, Cameahwait,
or Charbonneau. We’ll have some
expedition food, and we’ll work on our Naya Nuki Board books.
Tuesday 10/28 Mrs. Miller’s Storytelling “Pikes
Peak Stories” @ 2:00. Parents are
welcome to join us.
Wednesday 10/29 3-A
Mock Lecture Series @ 9:15.
Students write
descriptions from Molly or JJ Brown’s point of view and present the
descriptions orally in a lecture format. Parents are invited to the lecture.
Thursday 10/30 3-A
Mock Lecture Series @ 12:15.
Students write paragraphs
from Horace,
Friday 10/31 Halloween
Parade & Parties
Monday
11/3 Arts Around
Presentation on Folk Art @ 1:00
Puppet Making 1:30-3:20
The children use the
dried carved apples from Johnny Appleseed Day and magically turn them into
puppets. We need LOTS of parents to help
the children make their puppets.
Tuesday 11/4 CCBA Voting for students who have
turned in the 3-A Voter Registration form.
Wednesday 11/5 4-8
pm Barnes & Noble Night
Friday 11/7 Guest Speaker (&
Dr. Staub will talk about Colorado Mining & Environmental Issues with all
three third grade classes. Parents may
join our class.
November 10 &11 LS Writing Workshop, part 1:
Christopher Maier
Thursday 11/13 3-A
Apple Head Puppet Shows in Sadler @ 12:15
This is an annual Mrs.
Andrews event. Parents, friends &
family are encouraged to see the children’s puppet plays. The boys & girls use the puppets they
made with the dried Johnny Appleseed apple heads and perform their original
plays.
November 17 &18 LS Writing Workshop, part 2:
Christopher Maier
Thursday 11/20
3-A students wear their
Saturday 11/22 Museum Guides at the
1300
Broadway (by the Capitol, Library &
Art Museum)
Students dress in
Colorado Costumes and are guides at the museum.
They may come for an hour or more, any time between 10:00 and 2:30. Since Mrs. Andrews will be at the museum all
day, parents may stay at the museum or leave their children to guide. We spend September and October learning about
December 1-5 Facts Test: addition &
subtraction. Students will be tested
individually during Specials.
Monday 11/24 Arts
Around Presentation @ 2:30 on Brueghel’s “The Harvest” & “Hunters in the
Snow”
Tuesday 11/25 Mrs.
Miller’s Storytelling of “Turkey Girl.”
Parents are welcome to join us.
November 26-28 Thanksgiving
Break
Monday 12/1 Arts
Around Presentation of “The Shakespeare Collection” @ 2:30
Several years ago CA
parent Joanne Sisun researched and prepared a
collection of paintings inspired by Shakespeare’s writings. She will share the collection with the
class. Parents are encouraged to join us
for this fabulous presentation.
Tuesday
12/2 DIA Terminal &
Captain Jepp @ 2:00
The authors of the
biography of aviator Elrey B. Jeppesen
will talk to all three classes about Capt. Jepp and
why the terminal at DIA was named after him.
Parents are welcome to join the classes to hear about Capt. Jepp.
Wednesday 12/3 Guest Speaker C.A. ninth grader Sara
Ozawa @ 9:15
Sara will talk about her grandparents’ experiences in Japanese-American
internment camps. Parents are welcome to
join us for Sara’s presentation.
Friday 12/5 Third
Grade Scholastic Read for 2009
All third graders participate in this Read-In sponsored by Scholastic
Books. Students can wear pajamas and
bring a pillow, blanket, stuffed animal and book.
Wednesday 12/10 Pre-K Gifts
Third graders will go to the Pre-K classroom with books wrapped for their
Pre-K buddy. We will give our buddies
their gifts, and the Pre-Kers will treat the 3-A
Buddies to holiday cookies.
Friday 12/12 Fun
Fiction Chocolate Party
Students read one, two
or three chocolate-related books and celebrate with a Fun Fiction Chocolate
Party during our book club. Everyone
needs to bring a bag of their favorite chocolate to share during our book club
meeting. (We save the extra chocolate
for snacks in 2009.)
Monday 12/15 Arts Around Presentation @ 2:30 on
We will prepare for our NW Coast Indian
Potlatch with this Arts Around presentation.
Wednesday 12/17 Last
day to sign the ClassroomsCare poster in the hallway.
All three third grade
classes participate in this service-learning reading project sponsored by
Scholastic Books. For every 100 books
that a class reads, Scholastic donates 100 books to children in need. The books are any books that the children
have read during third grade.
Thursday 12/18
Friday 12/19 3-A
Holiday Party Northwest Coast Indian Potlatch beginning @ 1:00
Students exchange gifts with classmates & we eat Northwest Coast
Indian food. Parents are invited to join
us at the Potlatch. Students also
perform Readers’ Theater for the Potlatch entertainment.
Dec.20 - Jan. 4 Winter Break
Tuesday 1/6 Arts
Around Presentation @ 2:30 on Seurat’s “Le Grand Jette”
Friday 1/9
The day will be filled with cowboy readings and activities. The boys & girls need to come to school dressed
as a cowboy or cowgirl.
January 12-16 Math Facts Assessment: addition,
subtraction, multiplication, division.
Students will be tested individually during Specials.
Thursday 1/15 Arts Around Presentation @ 8:30 on
Jacob Lawrence & Horace Pippin
Monday 1/19 No School – Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day
Wednesday 1/21 9:30-12:15 Blair-Caldwell African American Research
Library
All three third
grade classes will leave school at 9:30, arrive at the library by 10:00, and
then divide into two groups to tour the library and museum. We’ll return to CA and eat lunch in the CA
Dining Hall at 12:15
Friday 1/23 LS Sports Night
Monday 1/26 Writing Poetry with
Colorado Supreme Court Justice Greg Hobbs @ 10:00
Justice Hobbs not only sits on the bench, but he also writes poetry. He will spend an hour talking with the class
about poetry and writing. Parents are
welcome to come to the classroom to hear Justice Hobbs.
Arts Around @ 2:30:
Scottish Art
Thursday 1/29 Marilyn Miller Storytelling
about “Aunt Clara Brown.” Parents are
invited to join us.
Thursday 1/29 3-A Robert Burns Day
Celebration 8:20-9:30
The children dress in plaids, kilts & argyles and share poems they
have written in a Burns style. We also
eat Scottish shortbread and have tea.
Parents are encouraged to join us for the poetry readings.
Friday 1/30 McKissack Discussion with Mrs. Hiskey
& Justina Ford, M.D. Book Share
Students read books
by the McKissacks and discuss their conclusions with
Mrs. HIskey.
They also read about Dr. Ford and create a Pre-K biography to share with
each other and with their Pre-K Buddies.
Monday 2/2 African-American Read-In
@ 10 o’clock in Welborn House.
The three third grade classes share Drs. Sam & Barbara Batey’s African-American Heritage. (The Bateys
are CA grandparents.) Parents are
welcome and encouraged to join the classes.
Monday 2/2 Arts
Around @ 2:30 – Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie Architecture
This presentation enhances our class study of the Colorado High Plains,
Laura
Ingalls Wilder’s prairie, and the way the land has influenced
architecture.
Wednesday 2/4 LS Author
Visit: Patricia Polacco
@ 10:00
Thursday 2/5 Quilts with Kellie @
12:10-2:15
Kellie Prall is coming to share quilt-making
techniques as well as the history of quilts as part of our reading of Laura
Ingalls Wilder's books. Parents are
invited to join us in this fun morning.
She plans to make a 3-A Quilt.
Monday 2/9 Laura Ingalls Wilder’s
Birthday Party & Historical Demonstrations
10:15 – 11:10 Laura Ingalls Math
1:00 – 3:15 Historical
Demonstrations
Laura’s
Birthday Cake
Make
Butter
Students dress up like pioneers in Laura’s day. After the demonstrations, we sing Happy
Birthday to Laura and eat 1890s Pound Cake with Lemonade. The students’ historical demonstrations start
at 1:00 and last for about an hour.
Parents are encouraged to join us for all or part of the day. Celebrating Laura’s birthday is another Mrs.
Andrews tradition.
February 9-17 Math Facts Assessment:
addition, subtraction, multiplication, division.
Students will be tested individually during
Specials.
Thursday 2/12 Arts Around @ 8:30 on
Valentine’s
Day Turn-of-the-Century (1900s) Party @ 2:30
All three third grade classes study Irma Bartels, a twelve year old girl
who lived in
Friday 2/13 No
Classes – Faculty Professional Day
Monday 2/16 No School -- Presidents’
Day
Friday 2/13 No
Classes – Faculty Professional Day
Monday 2/16 No School -- Presidents’
Day
February 17-27 Irma Boxes in class.
Students find a
small box or small chest (shoebox size) and choose 5 objects from their bedroom
that typify
Tuesday 2/17
Steve Lee, retired Jeffco teacher and
storyteller, dresses as a fictional railroad brakeman named Hiram Wheeler.
Mr. Lee teaches all three third grade classes about the importance of
railroads to
February 18-24 ERB
Testing in Third Grade
Tuesday 2/24 Marilyn Miller Storytelling
about “Heroes” @ 2:00. Parents are
invited to join us.
Thursday 2/26 9:55
All third graders present a mini-Colorado Days at the Lower School Town
Meeting. Students need to bring their
10:30
This has become an annual event.
All three third grade classes join Mrs. Rider for this singing &
folk dancing performance that celebrates our state. Parents come and join the fun. All third graders need to wear their Colorado
Costumes for the performance.
Monday 3/2 Read Across
Third graders can wear silly hats, pajamas & slippers and also may bring a
pillow, blanket & stuffed animals. Students also need to bring one book by Dr.
Seuss to share with the class.
March 5 & 6 Parent Conferences (Parents only attend third grade
conferences.)
Thursday 3/12 Touring
Students read about national parks, national monuments, historic sites,
and rivers in
Thursday 3/19 3-A Law Firm Day
The class divides into Legal Teams, and the teams use their peers’ IIM
Reports to gather facts for mock cases.
Each team outlines the contents of their team’s reports and make
presentations of the facts to the entire 3-A Law Firm.
Friday 3/20 Pre-K Teddy Bear Tea
The Lords need to wear
a tie, and the Ladies need to wear a dress or skirt.
March 21-30 Spring Break
Tuesday 3/31 Marilyn Miller Storytelling about
Molly Brown @ 2:00.
Parents are invited to join us.
Mrs. Miller dresses as Margaret Tobin Brown and tells Molly’s story to
all three third grade classes.
Friday 4/4 3-A Poetry Workshop
The boys & girls spend the day learning about forms of poetry and
writing their own poems. This is the
kick-off for the writing of their own poetry collections.
Friday 4/10 Baur’s “Pink Lady” sodas in the classroom.
Monday 4/13 3-A
Beverly Cleary Birthday Bash (Mrs.
Cleary’s real birthday is April 12.)
3-A will celebrate
Beverly Cleary’s 92nd birthday with a birthday cake and by totaling
the number of Cleary pages the class has read.
The boys & girls use 100’s and 10’s blocks to count the number of
pages they’ve read and wrap their blocks in a box with birthday paper to give
to Mrs. Cleary.
Arts
Around @ 2:30: Spanish Art to prepare
for
Thursday 4/16 Third
Grade Poetry Gig in Sadler East & West @ 10:00
All three classes join
together for a choral reading of Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” and sharing of
students’ poetry books. The third
graders wear their poetry t-shirts and we celebrate the magic of words. Parents are invited to join us.
Monday 4/20 No
Classes – Faculty Professional Day
Wednesday 4/22 9:00-1:30
Auraria & Early
All three third grade
classes travel to downtown
Thursday 4/23 Shakespeare’s
Birthday &
Book
Plates @ 8:30
The boys & girls
dress in costumes of their choosing -- a character from a play or Elizabethan
attire. Students also can be St. George,
the Dragon, Don Quixote, Sancho Panza
or a person from medieval
Tuesday 4/28 Marilyn
Miller Storytelling about “The Beazels” @ 2:00. Parents are invited to join us.
Monday 5/4 Arts
Around on Diego Rivera and Mexican-American murals @ 2:30
Art Show
Opening @ 6:00
Tuesday 5/5 Cinco de Mayo
The boys & girls
dress in Hispanic-type clothes for Cinco de
Mayo. Gloria & Martha, the women in
Housekeeping who clean the
Thursday 5/7 3-A
Mock Climb up
The boys & girls
dress as the explorer Stephen Long, as the naturalist and conservationist Enos Mills, as Isabella Bird in a long skirt, as Mountain
Jim, as F.O. Stanley of Stanley Steamer fame, or as a contemporary mountain
climber. They also need to bring a water
bottle for the mock climb. (We hike
along the Dos Chappell Trail on campus and write in our Isabella Bird
Journals. We also learn about
GORP!) Parents are invited to join the
class.
May 11-22 Final
Math Facts Assessments: addition,
subtraction, multiplication & division
Students should
complete 25 addition facts in one minute, 25 subtraction facts in one minute,
25 multiplication facts in one minute, and 25 division facts in one
minute. Testing is individual.
Wednesday 5/13 Glenn
Miller’s Big Band Day
The three third grade
classes celebrate Glenn Miller’s contributions to
Thursday 5/14 Arts
Around @ 8:30 on Art Deco
This presentation
prepares the class for our
Wednesday 5/20 9:30-1:30 Third Grade Field Trip to Civic
The third graders from
all three classes finish their study of
Monday 5/25 School
Closed - Memorial Day
Tuesday 5/26 Storytelling
Celebration with Marilyn Miller in the classroom @ 2:00
Parents are invited to
come to our performance of “A Literary Colorado: Rudyard Kipling-Mark Twain-Walt
Whitman-Eugene Field.”
Wednesday 5/27 3-A
Class Lunch 9:15-12:00
Our class uses this as
a special time to end the year together.
The boys & girls bring lunches from home ---- anything and
everything for a fun lunch. We put the
lunches into our backpack and head out to the Dos Chappell Trail on the
Friday 5/29 Field
Day & Giant Relay
Monday 6/1 Third
Grade Party to Jungle Quest 9:00-11:00
This activity is for
all third grade students and teachers.
Tuesday 6/2 Last
day of classes.
10:00
Ice Cream Get-Together with Pre-K Buddies.
Dismissal
is at 3:20. Enjoy the summer!