Ms.

Beeby’s 3 grade rd

April Newsletter
Calendar
April 10-12: CMAS ELA testing in
the morning
April 13, 14, 17: CMAS Math testing
in the morning
April 21: Earth Day parade before

Earth Day Parade

school
May 13: EdFest at Hops and Pie
(approx 6-10pm)- fun, parents
only event
Before school on April 21 from
8-8:30, Edison students and families
are invited to join in the fun and the
service to parade around the school

Reminders
1. Please make sure your student
brings a water bottle to school
every day.
2. Breakfast is free of charge for all
students.
3. Thursday folders should be
returned on Friday morning.
4. It’s important for students to read
at least 20 minutes at home every
night! This is their homework!
while cleaning up our school grounds.
Students are encouraged to create a
hat, of any sort, ahead of time and
wear it to the parade. The catch…the
hat must be made from recycled
materials!!
Please reach out with any
questions or concerns:
Julie_Beeby@dpsk12.org
or message me on
ClassDojo

CMAS Testing
On the mornings of April 10-14 and April 17, students will be taking the
literacy (ELA) and math portions of CMAS (Colorado Measure of Academic
Success). Over the course of CMAS testing, please make sure your student
has a good night’s sleep and eats a healthy breakfast. For 3rd graders, the
test will be given between 9 and 11 each morning.
 What are
we learning?
Reading Core
In the month of April, we’ll be finishing
up our unit on water. We’ve been reading
and learning about how Earth has a
limited amount of freshwater, and the
challenges that some people face in
accessing and having enough clean,
non-polluted water. The students will be
using their notes and what they’ve
learned to create a Public Service
Announcement (PSA) to address one of
these challenges. Following this unit,
we’ll be starting our last unit, a novel
study of the book Peter
Pan.
Math
Students in my math class
just finished an
introductory unit on
decimals. After CMAS, we’ll
move into our last two units
of the school year: angles,
symmetry, and
quadrilaterals, and
measurement and
conversions.
Students who travel to Ms.
Mathews or Mrs. Ostrom
will be starting Module 5
where the focus will also be
on fractions and locating
their value on a number line.

Writing
We’ll start off April by finishing our “Day in the Life” books that
we’ve been writing and illustrating about a historical American.
Once we finish those books, we’ll be starting our final unit on
poetry. Students will be writing and illustrating various types of
poems, ultimately creating their own poetry journal!

Social Studies/Science
This month our science focus is on inheritance and traits. The
students will be observing and collecting data on two wolf packs in a
fictional park to learn about how organisms get their traits both
through inheritance and through interactions with the environment.
After this science unit, we’ll start our last social studies unit on the
20th century civil rights movement.