Pioneer Day!

Take a look at all of our pictures from Pioneer Day! Students had a blast living the life of a pioneer.

Pioneer Day Info!

Hello 3rd grade parents,

Pioneer Day is almost here (May 13). This is a great event that the kids love.  

 We are in need of volunteers for set up and the day of the event.  Please use the link to sign up

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0f49a8aa28a13-pioneer

In order to volunteer you must have your background check on file with the school.

Your teacher will be sending out a link on Monday for food donations.  If you have any questions please feel free to either email me at bsuhy@aol.com or call 317-506-8005

Have a great weekend

Carrie Suhy

First round of ISTEP--check! Up next, IREAD! We'll take the practice test next Thursday, March 10 at 9:35 and the actual test the following week. Please take a look at the upcoming important dates:

Thursday, March 10th
9:35-10:05- IREAD practice test

Monday, March 14th
8:35-10:20- IREAD Session 1 and 2

Tuesday, March 15th 
8:45-9:30-IREAD Session 3


I am SO incredibly proud of how hard my third graders worked on ISTEP. Their confidence really shined through.  We are definitely ready to take on IREAD!

The CE flower sale fundraiser kicked off today. Take a look at the message below!

The 2016 Carmel Elementary Flower Sale is in full swing! This is CE's largest fundraiser, a 40+ year tradition. We count on big proceeds from this sale to create new opportunities that directly benefit our students. From Friday, March 4^th through Monday, March 21^st, we will be collecting preorders and awarding daily prizes. Your student has received a packet of detailed information. Be sure to look it over together. Please consider helping your child participate to not only reap the rewards, but to feel the pride that is associated with being part of this incredible tradition.

Also, consider SHARING your success this year via social media! Post your student’s excitement and progress throughout the presale using #CEFlowerSale. Search #CEFlowerSale today to view fun posts from other CE families!

Questions? Visit flowers4ce.com or email flowers4ce@gmail.com.

Upcoming Important Dates!

This time of year is always packed with tons of important dates and reminders! Please take a look at what's coming up:

Friday, February 26, 6:30-8:30
Family Fitness Night

Monday, February 29
8:45-9:25 ISTEP Applied Skills Testing (Math)

Tuesday, March 1
 8:45-9:20 ISTEP Applied Skills Testing (ELA Section 1)

Wednesday, March 2
8:30-8:55 ISTEP Applied Skills Testing (ELA Section 2)

9:05-10:05 ISTEP Applied Skills Testing (ELA Section 3)

Friday, March 4-21 
CE's Annual Flower Sale Fundraiser begins!

Visit flowers4ce.com for more info.!

 As you can see, next week begins the first section of ISTEP. It is EXTREMELY important to have your child here on time each day for testing. Please try to schedule any appointments around our testing windows. We want to make sure our students are getting a great night's sleep and eating a healthy breakfast each morning so that they're energized the entire time. The kids were so excited when they found out the Amusement Park theme for ISTEP this year!--Don't wait in line, its your time to shine! :)

We worked through our first practice test today and the kids did such an AWESOME job. There was LOTS of clipping up happening for all of the positive attitudes and hard work I was seeing. We really want to make this first time of testing for students a positive one! Staying calm will help your child stay calm. =)

All you need is LOVE!

Lots of love was spread around our classroom last Friday. We had a LOVEly Valentine's party. Thank you so much to everyone who helped out. The class had a blast and I know they  loved looking through their Valentine's bag! In case you were not able to make it, take a look at some of the fun pictures from Friday!

Writing Clinics

You may have heard your child talking about spending time with other third grade teachers and friends during writing time this week! Every so often we like to switch things up a bit to keep the kids EXCITED about their learning. We've spent a good portion of our year becoming great narrative writers. One important piece of narrative writing is remembering to include figurative language. Students learned that figurative language helps your writing come alive. Because there's many forms of figurative language, we'd thought it would be fun to hold writing clinics. Students rotated to a different teacher each day to learn, practice, and apply a total of 4 different types of figurative language--Similes, Hyperbole, Personification, and Onomatopoeia. It was a wonderful opportunity for students to collaborate with their peers from other classrooms! They came back to class so excited each day and immediately started looking for figurative language in the books they read. They quickly found out that figurative language appears A LOT!

See if your child can define and give examples of hyperbole, personification, similes, and onomatopoeia. Have them share with you any forms of figurative language they see in books they're reading, on TV shows, or even in songs! Figurative language is the perfect way to take their writing to the next level!