Our Kindness Project and a Few Tidbits!

We've completed another great full week of school here in CC~3.  We're incredibly proud of this wonderful group of students and the learning community we are all becoming. Our routines are now well established and we're making academic progress daily!  Third grade is such an exciting year of growth!

This week we've continued to develop our community by focusing on the ideas of perserverance and kindness.  One way we've done this is to read great books that have been wonderful for discussion.  In regard to kindness, two picture book highlights of this week included:  Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson and The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig.(Mrs. Lyford came and read this one to us, and left it in our classroom library as a gift!) We have also just started a new chapter book about kindness, The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes.  

Please ask your child about these books, it's a great opportunity for them to retell the stories to you!

We've also been practicing small acts of kindness. These include actions such as giving a peer a genuine compliment, holding the door open for someone, or picking up something off the floor that’s not yours.  Throughout the week, we have also talked about big acts of kindness.  We determined, whether big or small, showing kindness to others makes a lasting impression.

Throughout the rest of September, we have an opportunity to complete a LARGE act of kindness, so as a class we decided to do it!   We are excited to participate in Bear Pond Books and Kellogg Hubbard Library’s book drive.  Our class will be purchasing new books for a school in Louisiana that lost all of their books during summer flooding.

To accomplish our goal, we will be popping popcorn during the afternoon, next Wednesday, September 21st.  Students will help bag the popcorn, and sell it to the EMES community Thursday morning for $0.50 a bag.  Our goal is to sell 100 bags of popcorn.  In anticipation of reaching our goal, students have already chosen the books we would like to purchase for the school in Louisiana.  

If you would like to be part of this great act of kindness, please let Mrs. Christiano and Mrs. Christy know by Tuesday, September 20th. We would appreciate parent volunteers to help pop and bag on Wednesday afternoon.

Tidbits

• Please remember to send in bus notes, as you know we have a shared classroom, so if we don't get notes, it's hard for us to be sure about and coordinate student dismissal plans. You are welcome to email them as well!
• Next Friday, September 23rd, is EMES HIKE DAY! The raindate is Friday, September 30th.
• Don't forget to check the sharing calendar for the "focus of the week", next week's focus is to bring in something about Autumn, as this new season begins on Thursday, September 22nd!