FEBRUARY / MARCH

3rd Grade: 

• MATH: students are learning about fractions and reviewing Roman Numerals, multiplication, and division. 
• LANGUAGE ARTS: the students are working on sentence structure and identifying parts of a sentence.  By the end of March the students will be able to identify nouns, verbs, helping verbs, adjectives, adverbs, subjects, and predicates. 
• LITERATURE: The 3rd grade students have finished reading The Secret in the Maple Tree.  In March they will start reading the Christian classic, Pilgrim’s Progress.  

4th Grade: 

• MATH: we are working on common factors, advance application of fractions, multiplication, division, and Roman Numerals. 
• LANGUAGE ARTS: the students are working on sentence structures and identifying verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and helping verbs. 
• LITERATURE: The students just finished reading School Days With the Millers.  Next, they will be reading Wisdom and the Millers, and they will finish the school year with the Christian classic, Pilgrim’s Progress.

COMBINED SUBJECTS: The combination class is working together on Spelling 4, Science 4, and History 3. 

• SCIENCE: the students are wrapping up the unit on “life in the sea”.  Next, they will be exploring “life in space”. 
• HISTORY: the students will be studying Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, Ulysses S. Grant, and Louisa May Alcott.

I can’t even begin to tell you how much I enjoy teaching your child with the A Beka curriculum.  It is a constant learning experience for the students, and a gratifying experience for the teacher.

Welcome, from your teacher, Mrs. Juli Zamacona.  I am so excited about this new school year.  Our new curriculum; A Beka Books; is fabulous. Its structure allows me to spend quality time with each student, in each subject. 

During the first quarter, the 3rd and 4th grade students will study the lives of heroes in history: Christopher Columbus, John Smith,  Pocahontas, Miles Standish, Squanto, and William Penn. Science studies will include: insects, plants, birds, matter, energy, geology, oceanography, and astronomy.  The students will also study the state birds & flowers along with the provinces in Canada. In Language the 3rd grade students will learn how to write complete sentences; declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory; while the 4th graders will learn how to construct: fragment, declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences. Math studies will focus on: 3rd grade multiplication, and 4th grade division. All of the students will work on penmanship, spelling/poetry, and reading.

To complement our curriculum, I will put together field trips to include visits to places such as the: zoo, ocean, redwoods, and a California mission.  Let me know if you have any suggestions for great field trips.

The move to our new classroom has been completed. The LLC & MLC classroom is now located in Room 1(previously Mrs. Abshire’s K-4 classroom). This new arrangement will allow Mrs. Charon & Mrs. Zamacona to help supervise each other’s classroom. On Thursday we put a new coat of paint on the walls, and Friday we started putting the posters up. I hope each of you get a chance to come in and check out the new arrangement.