Week of May 12th

Hi Parents,
We are almost done with the year and here are all the things you will need to know (or at least what I can think of right now).

• Friday 5/16-  Field Day  Bring in $1 for Ted Drewe's if you haven't already
• wear good tennis shoes
• bring extra socks and shirt/shorts (they will get wet)
• Monday 5/19 - Forest Park Field Trip (leave at 9:15am  and return by 2pm)
• Please bring:
• sack lunch
• good tennis shoes
• wear CCLS spirit shirt
• Thursday 5/22 - Graduation at Concordia Kirkwood at 7pm
• Friday 5/23 - Last Day of School
• Closing chapel at 8:45 am with Installations for Mr. Butterfield, Mrs. Shirley, and Miss Besel (Webster campus)
• Early Dismissal at 11 am

Book Club

We are doing a book club for Language Arts until the last day of school.  This really won't involve much homework.  Ask your child about the book their club is reading right now!

News Stories

Last week your kiddos did a research project on issues around the world.  They then wrote news scripts and recording their own news broadcast reporting on an issue.  Check out my Reading page to watch their videos! 

Zoo pictures

"My child took pictures at the zoo and now says they are supposed to do something with them? Help?"

Thank you to everyone who sent a camera/device for their student to use.  Finding animals within ecosystems and taking photos for science helped enrich the field trip, but now for the information about what to do with those photos...

Preferred Option:

It would be very helpful if you would be able to download them into your child's Google Drive.  Here are some helpful tips on how to do this:

1) Your student will need to log in to their Google account (just go to www.google.com and click sign-in in the top right corner).  They should know their username and password (same as what they use for Chromebooks).

2) Go to Google Drive (you are now logged in to the Google platform) and I would recommend creating a new folder (Create --> folder) and naming it something like Zoo Pictures.

3) Once you are in this folder click on the little up arrow next to the "Create" button.  This is the upload button where you can select file or folder and access individual files or folders on your device, select, and "open" to download them into Drive. 

You can select more than one file at once by holding down the shift key while clicking files to use and then "opening" them all at once into Google Drive.

2nd Option:

Send your child to school with their device, preferably on Wednesday, (with any USB cords necessary) and I or Mr. Fishburn can help them move their pictures to the correct location.

3rd Option
Email the photos to me, and I can forward them on to the students and we can get them into Google Drive.


If your child shared a device with someone, once we get their photos into their Google Drive, it will be very easy to share them with your child.  If something happens that we cannot get your students photos, it will not effect their grade; it might just mean a little extra work and being resourceful to get what we need from others.

Week of May 5th

I'm starting our countdown to the end of 3rd grade.  Summer is always exciting and much needed, but I will be a little down in the dumps when your kiddos aren't in my class in 13.5 days.

Zoo pictures
Thank you so much for everyone's help with the trip to the zoo and providing cameras.  I know some kids took a ton of pictures and some kids only took a few.  No matter how many they took, it was great to see them thinking about what we have learned.   If you could help them email their pictures to their school accounts that would be a big help.  We will be sorting and adding to them in class on Wednesday.  

Forest Park Field Trip
Monday 5/19 - I have quite a few parents, but can always use extra hands.  I will be sending out a list of things that I need help collecting next week.   These are pretty simple items, but we will need them to do our amazing race.  I will keep you posted.

Guest Teacher
I'm sure most of you have heard about our guest this week.  In case you didn't, my sister will be here all week helping me.  She will also be teaching the literacy block this week as an end to her education classes.  This is her final project before she goes to student teach in the fall.  Her name is Kierstyn, but since she will be teaching the kids, I will be having them call her "Miss B".   She didn't like the idea of having two Miss Besel's (it's just too confusing for all of us).

Book Clubs
Next week we will be doing another 2 week book club to end the year.  It will be a lot less homework, but a lot more independent reading in class.  This also means that we will have no more spelling tests, but just work on things in class.  I will be giving a partial spelling grade based on how well they apply their skills to the rest of their daily work.

Field Day
There is a note coming home today about field day.  Please watch for a blue sheet in your child's papers.

Have a great week!
Miss Besel