Monday and Tuesday...

There has been too much arguing and mean behavior in third grade - please talk with your child about this. We talk everyday about being nice to each other. This is really important as feelings get hurt so easily and verbal scars really leave a mark. Thanks for your support.


Dear Parents/Guardians , October 25, 2010

Spelling…. The word list has been sent home – in pink. We will take a pretest on Tuesday and this weeks spelling test on THURSDAY.

Word a Day… WAD this week on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. An extra credit word will be assigned for Thursday. It is your child’s choice…I know what I would choose!!

Reading…We continue with the new reading series. Last week we took a few days and really discussed the rules of group time – that seemed to help – today everyone ‘got started right away’. I had small group guided reading and each group started a new story. Students were also assigned vocabulary work – due on Wednesday. Vocabulary sentences will be due on Friday. BOOKIT! due on Friday. Students should be working on their Reading Counts goal. Their goal and achievements so far is marked at the bottom of the folder. This also counts toward their reading grade.

Math…We are working on Chapter 2, adding and subtracting 3 and 4 digit numbers…I am seeing improvements in subtraction with regrouping.

Grammar… This week we are working on prefixes and suffixes and writing a paragraph about. There has been an extra credit assignments offered - due on Thursday.

Social Studies/Science…
SS…We will continue with Map Skill and we have been working from Time for Kids.
SCI …We are doing more experiments - learning about energy.

Show and Tell… Girls may bring in show and tell on THURSDAY.

UPCOMING EVENTS
Thursday – Red Ribbon Day – Wear red to school – don’t forget to sign and return your pledge card. Halloween – students may wear costumes to school on Friday, October 29th. We will be breaking into groups with other grades and the teachers have planned some fun learning center type activities for the morning. The PTO is planning some activities for the afternoon. There are 13 students in 3rd grade.

NO SCHOOL ON NOVEMBER 3rd – this is a teacher work day.

November 24th will be the Elementary Science Fair. I will be sending home a list of expectations regarding the project. It is not too early to starting thinking about a project to do. We are on our 4th Science Weekly and there are many good ideas in there each week.

End of the first marking period – Friday, November 5th.



Spelling Word List
under
such
much
young
touch
use
your
you
unit
cute
few
new
fule
human
music


Assignments
Spelling page 35 and 36
Reading - Vocabulary, Drawing Conclusions, group work
Math - Mastery Check Point #5, 2.11
Grammar - Suffixes/Prefixes WS, Capital Letters WS, Finish Writing Important Young Person Paragraph
Science - Reflective light
Social Studies - Map Skills

Homework - Math WS and WAD

Have a great night!

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