A MUST SEE!!! Check out our Green-Screen Pilgrims!!!

3N Pilgrim Movie from Cabot School on Vimeo.

May/June Important Dates

May:

Monday, May 11:         8:30-2:30 Plimoth Plantation Field Trip **
Tuesday, May 12:          PARCC ELA (English Language Arts)

Thursday, May 14:        PARCC Math

Friday, May 15:             PARCC Math
Tuesday, May 19:          12:30-2:30 Talent Show Auditions in gym

Friday, May 22:            9AM Living Wax Museum *** 

Monday, May 25:           No School, Memorial Day
Tuesday, May 26:          12:30-2:30 Talent Show Auditions in gym

Thursday, May 28:         1-3PM Colonial Day ****

June:

Tuesday, June 2:             Color Day

Friday, June 5:             8:30-11:00 Durant/Kenrick House****(walking/free field trip)
Wednesday, June 10:      12:45-2:45 3rd Grade Picnic
Wednesday, June 17:      1:45-3 Going Away Party for Niv and Mauricio
Friday, June 19:             6:00pm  Talent Show in gym

Wednesday, June 24:      Last Day for Students!!!  :(

**  Chaperones cost $15, not free as I mentioned before, and we would love for as many of you to come that  can. YOU DO HAVE TO HAVE A RECENT CORI (check with Sydney in the office if you are  not sure and please do this asap as it takes a couple weeks).  You may ride the bus OR drive yourself or carpool.

***   Your child will research and write a biography on an important person, dress up as them, and perform for you all at our LIVING wax museum outside on Cabot field.

****  COLONIAL DAY- WE NEED HELP FROM THE ROOM PARENTS AND VOLUNTEERS PLEASE  :)

****  DURANT/KENRICK HOUSE FIELD TRIP- WE NEED CHAPERONES PLEASE  :) IT'S FREE  :)

Drumlin Farms In-School Field Trip

Observing living things in pond water with magnifying glasses

 Touching a duck's beak skeleton

Being scientists and observing this Mallard Duck... ask your child what cool features it has.

Looking at the spotted salamander in the picture below this one.

April/May Update!

Hello everyone!

I hope you had a restful break, whether or not you had the time off. It's good to be back! Here are a few updates on what's happening in our classroom:

Reading: We are currently about half-way through Wonder, a fantastic realistic fiction read-aloud that brings up questions of friendship, family, equality, and fairness. Ask your child about August, Jack Will, and the rest of the characters! 

Math: As we move towards our final round of Math PARCC, we will be covering several key areas of study including the beginnings of multi-digit multiplication as well as geometry. If your child has memorized all of their basic multiplication facts, feel free to begin challenging them with some basic multi-digit multiplication using partial products. For example: "What is 26 x 4?" Solution: "Well, twenty times four is eighty, and six times four is twenty-four, so added together the answer is one-hundred and four."

Social Studies: Soon, we will begin a study of Colonial Newton. Much like our Pilgrim Unit, our students will be grouped as families who actually lived and worked in Colonial Newton. As an end-project, in family groups the students will construct a three-d version of their family farm and we will have Colonial Day.

Science:  We just had a nice visit from Pat at Drumlin Farms who brought frogs, a duck, and many tiny living things in pond water.  Soon, we will receive our tadpoles to raise and nurture. Cabot is quite lucky to take part in a program which works to re-seed threatened Spade-Foot Toads. We will raise our toads from tadpoles to frogs, then they will be released back to vernal pools on the Cape. Our students have begun researching and learning about frogs and other amphibians. 

Writing: Beginning next week, we will set forth upon our last large writing unit. Over the last few months of school, or students will study opinion writing. Be prepared to receive letters to the tune of, "Why I should get a dog", "Why chores are unfair", and my personal favorite, "Why we should send my brother/sister to live on a desert island until they turn eighteen." 

Plimoth Plantation: If you would like to chaperone our Plimoth Plantation trip on May 11th, we're still accepting chaperone requests. The more the merrier! Please let me know if you've had a CORI like to join us! I will send out a list of parent volunteers soon so you can organize carpools if you'd like.

Writer's Gathering :)

We worked so hard on our informational writing and were so happy so many people could come support us!!!  THANK YOU!!!!!!

Science! 10-10-10-10 Challenge

10 grams aluminum foil

10 grams plasticine

10 grams wood

10 grams styrofoam

Build whatever you want- AS A GROUP!

Lion King!!! Congrats and artwork :)

April Fool's!

What is elementary school without some fun?  See below for some silly pictures of our classroom on April Fool's Day:

What's Weight?

We are figuring out what weight is and how we can weigh objects.  Should we use our hands (felt weight) to see if something is heavier?  Should we use a pan balance and counterweights such as plastic bears, paper clips or washers?  Or should we use a standard unit of measurement, such as grams and pounds?  Which works best for smaller objects?

Please see our weight line below as we weighed objects around our classroom on a pan balance with plastic gram counterweights:

APRIL/MAY IMPORTANT DATES

Hello all,

Below please find a few important dates:

APRIL:

Friday, April 3:              No school, Good Friday

Wednesday, April 8:      PARCC Math

Friday, April 10:            PARCC Math

Tuesday, April 14:         8AM WRITER'S GATHERING *

Monday, April 20-24     No school, April Vacation

May:

Monday, May 11:         8:30-2:30 Plimoth Plantation Field Trip **
Tuesday, May 12:          PARCC ELA (English Language Arts)

Thursday, May 14:        PARCC Math

Friday, May 15:             PARCC Math

      DATE CHANGE BELOW!!!
Friday, May 22:            9AM Living Wax Museum ***

Monday, May 25:           No School, Memorial Day

Thursday, May 28:         1-3PM Colonial Day ****

June:

Tuesday, June 2:             Color Day

Friday, June 5:             8:30-11:00 Durant/Kenrick House****(walking/free field trip)

Tuesday, June 23:           Last Day for Students!!!  :(

*  Celebration for families to come in and see their children's informational writing books.

**  Chaperones cost $15, not free as I mentioned before, and we would love for as many of you to come that  can. YOU DO HAVE TO HAVE A RECENT CORI (check with Sydney in the office if you are  not sure and please do this asap as it takes a couple weeks).  You may ride the bus OR drive yourself or carpool.

***   Your child will research and write a biography on an important person, dress up as them, and perform for you all at our LIVING wax museum outside on Cabot field.

****  COLONIAL DAY- WE NEED HELP FROM THE ROOM PARENTS AND VOLUNTEERS PLEASE  :)

****  DURANT/KENRICK HOUSE FIELD TRIP- WE NEED CHAPERONES PLEASE  :) IT'S FREE  :)