Since we’ve been learning about America and our government, let’s have some fun and pretend YOU are the president! As the President of the United States, what will you do? In three or more fantastic, COMPLETE sentences, tell me what YOU would do as the president. Would you make some new laws? Would you build a new White House? Put a lot of thinking into it and show us some GREAT third grade writing!
Third Grade News-April 28-May 2
· Field Day was a huge success! Thanks to everyone for all the time and effort put into making Salem a great place.
· We are back to our normal routine this week with our home education. Please continue to have your child get plenty of rest and bring healthy snacks and lunches. I can tell already that they are tired and ready to be finished with school. The bad news is that we still have six weeks left and we want to make the most of them!
· Free dress day—Friday, May 2
· Plan to attend the Lutheran School’s Art Show at Lutheran High on Friday, May 2. You will be getting a note if the artist who lives in your home will be represented.
· We will be visiting Key Ranch, a working orange grove and home built at the turn of the century (last century) on Tuesday, May 6. If you are driving for us, please be at our door at 8:15 so we can be ready to hop in our cars at 8:20. Key ranch is in Placentia. If you are driving and would like to be a photographer for us, please bring your camera.
· Talent show try-outs will be May 13-14. Look for more information from the student council soon. Info may also be accessed online at salemorange.com.
· FYI: free dress will begin May 27 and continue for the rest of the year. Make sure your child uses any free dress certificates earned before that date.
Miss Darneal, our fantastic student teacher, will be teaching full time this week. This is her final week with us and we are going to miss her A LOT!
Have a SUPER week in the Lord!
Today we visited several American landmarks by boarding Team Gilbert’s private jet with Miss Darneal. Take a look at part of our trip…
If you’d like to come and watch Mrs. Gilbert’s Yellow Bananas win the whole thing, be sure to join us for Field Day on Friday! 
Here’s all the info you need:
Field Day is Salem’s all school track meet. There are ten teams–all different colors. Eighth graders are the captains of the teams and seventh graders run the meet. Each team has participants from grades 1-6. All the sixth graders run against each other, then the fifth graders, etc. It is a loud, fun, exciting day! It is also hard to keep the participants who aren’t running at the time focused on what is happening. If you are able to join us, please encourage your child to stay with his/her team and root for those who are running at the time.
The file below is the APPROXIMATE schedule for Field Day. Some years we are ahead of schedule, some years we are behind. Parking will be at a minimum, so carpool if you can. We are allowed to park at the horse arena below, so if you can’t find parking on campus, park there and walk up the hill. DO NOT park in the neighborhood without permission from the residents.
Thanks for a great week, Myers! You were a SUPER STAR! 
· We will be continuing our ITBS scholastic testing for the next two weeks. We will also be practicing for Field Day (4/25) during that time. We would like to encourage you to make a good night’s sleep and a healthy breakfast each morning a priority for the rest of the year, but, at the least, for two more weeks. Thanks for making our testing a priority.
There will be NO homework (except for reading) this week due to testing! NO memory or spelling tests.
· Children of the World Choir will be leading our chapel this week—April 16. They will also be performing that night in the gym at 7:00. Plan to join us for both!
· Restaurant Day—Thursday, April 17—Visit Chick-fil-A at The Tustin Marketplace anytime between 6:30 AM and 8:00 PM and 20% will go back to Salem! Stop between 4:30 and 5:30 and Mrs. Gilbert, Mrs. Ellwein and Mrs. Surridge will personally make your meal for you!! (That’s scary!!!)
· Plan to visit the science fair in the gym on April 17 or 18
· Multi-color Day—Friday, April 18—You may wear red, blue, yellow or orange—the catch is: the color you pick is the ONLY color you can wear. Be creative!
· Pizza—Monday, April 21
· Another PTL Technology Info night is planned for April 22—come see some new technology we are incorporating into the classroom.
· Please remind your child to bring well fitted shoes that can be tied or secured to his/her feet every Wed. and Fri. for p.e. and Tues. and Thurs. for the next two weeks for Field Day practice.
**Report Cards** came home on Friday. It seems as though I either had a computer glitch OR I just forgot to fill in the last two squares in the behavior columns… Oops! Sorry about that. If I need to address any of those areas for your child, I will contact you personally.
Thanks for all the fun we had last week, Jake! You were a super star!
We are the PROUD parents of two fluffy chicks! It has been great fun to learn about how eggs become chicks and to watch the chicks hatch. Write at least three super sentences about our chicks. Make sure to include 1) what you learned about hatching and/or eggs
that you didn’t know before, 2) the most interesting thing about what you learned or saw, and 3) why you would, or would not, want to take a chick home to raise him/her as your own.
Third Grade News—April 7-11
· Welcome to fourth quarter! Our time together is moving much too quickly. Report cards will come home on Friday.
· Thanks to everyone who came to sing on Sunday. We sounded beautiful.
· Our book commercials start again next week. If you need to remind yourself of the requirements or due dates, check the top of the blog on the “book commercial” page.
· Our offerings this month will be going to Children of the World Choir. This is a choir of orphaned children representing many different countries around the world. They will be our guests of honor for chapel on April 16. Plan to join us.
· Our home education will be changing a little for the final quarter and I will need your help. Given that reading is a key aspect to life long learning, we are going to be concentrating on our comprehension strategies. Practice on spelling words and memory will still be a requirement, as well as a night of blogging and three super spelling sentences to encourage practice in our writing skills. However, two nights a week 25 minutes of reading will be required. Since this requirement will be tough for me to monitor, I’m going to ask that you, as a parent, sign the home education log each night to let me know that your child has completed the requirements. If your child brings his/her home ed. log without a signature, I will assume he/ she did not complete the required reading.
Thanks for being a SUPER star, Elliot! We had a fun week with you.
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