It was great getting to see you all and to have the opportunity to work as a partner with you in helping ensure your child's success. This week will be another exciting one! It is RED RIBBON WEEK and below are the spirit wear days!
A special thanks to Brooke Verdict and Maggie Riley who has planned our Halloween party on Friday, October 28th. Also, thanks to each of you for volunteering to send in the necessary supplies to enable the party to be a success.
On Wednesday, October 26, the third grade will have their Tourism Day. You are welcome to attend. It will run from 1:00-3:30. You can stop by and see how your child has become "An Expert" on their state.
Math
We will be finishing up Topic 5 this week and will have the test this Friday. The last few lessons include how to multiply with multiples of 10 and using problem solving to figure out two step story problems.
Reading
We will begin Theme 5 "Times Have Changed" in Rigby. The comprehension strategies we will focus on are monitor understanding and reviewing synthesizing.
The Rigby Spelling list will focus on the ou, ow, oy, and oi patterns. The Rigby list is first, fish, live, pick, pouch, allow, ounce, growl, proud, and mountain.
The extension list focus is quad (four). The extension words are quadrangle, quadrant, quadrennial, quadriceps, quadrilateral, quadrilingual, quadrisect, quadruped, quadruple, and quadruplet.
Social Studies
We will continue our geography unit where the students have begun doing research on an assigned state. The culminating Tourism Day is on Wednesday from 1:00-3:30.
Writing We will continue adding new stories to our Writer's Workshop Notebook.
Red Ribbon Week Spirit Days:
Monday, October 24:
Wear your favorite team sports jersey or T-shirt to "Kick Off" Red Ribbon Week and to Team Up Against Drugs!
Tuesday, October 25:
Wear RED to show your support for Red Ribbon Week!
Wednesday, October 26
Wear Sweats today, because saying NO to drugs and alcohol is "no sweat!"
Thursday, October 27:
Wear Crazy Socks to "Sock It" to drugs!
Friday, October 28:
Wear your favorite hat because we are "putting a lid on" drugs and alcohol!
Have a great week!
I just made a new Voki. See it here:
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Curriculum October 10-14
This is the last week of the 1st quarter!! Can you believe how fast it has gone? There will be no school for students this Friday. This will be a teacher work day in order for us to finish up our 1st quarter grades and get prepared to meet with you for Parent Conferences next week.
Here's a look at the learning that will happen this week in our class.
Reading
We are still practicing how to "synthesize" information when we read. This is when we put our previous knowledge together with information we read to create new ideas.
I will not be meeting with small groups this week or next week. I will be benchmarking students to get their current reading level so that I can re-evaluate reading groups for the 2nd quarter.
Spelling
The patterns this week are:
1. ie, igh, oa, and ow
2. "tri-" which means three.
The Rigby words are bus, can't, eat, feet, owner, delight, flown, moan, oath & brief.
The extension words are triangle, triathlon, triceratops, tricycle, trilateral, trilingual, trilogy, trio, tripod & trisect.
The test will be on Thursday this week.
Writing
We have been writing some rather creative stories in our Writer's Workshop notebook. In grammar we will continue our study of sentences.
Math
We did a review lesson today and will be taking our Topic 4 test tomorrow.
We will begin Topic 5 on Wednesday. The lessons in this topic focus on multiplication facts and patterns.
Social Studies
We are continuing to study maps and will begin a state research project later this week. The majority of this project will be completed at school. The 3rd graders will be hosting a "Tourism Day" on October 27. This is the culminating event for this project. Students will have the opportunity during our "Tourism Day" to share all the information they learned about the state they researched.
Science
Reminder: Solar Houses are due on Monday, October 24th.
Here's a look at the learning that will happen this week in our class.
Reading
We are still practicing how to "synthesize" information when we read. This is when we put our previous knowledge together with information we read to create new ideas.
I will not be meeting with small groups this week or next week. I will be benchmarking students to get their current reading level so that I can re-evaluate reading groups for the 2nd quarter.
Spelling
The patterns this week are:
1. ie, igh, oa, and ow
2. "tri-" which means three.
The Rigby words are bus, can't, eat, feet, owner, delight, flown, moan, oath & brief.
The extension words are triangle, triathlon, triceratops, tricycle, trilateral, trilingual, trilogy, trio, tripod & trisect.
The test will be on Thursday this week.
Writing
We have been writing some rather creative stories in our Writer's Workshop notebook. In grammar we will continue our study of sentences.
Math
We did a review lesson today and will be taking our Topic 4 test tomorrow.
We will begin Topic 5 on Wednesday. The lessons in this topic focus on multiplication facts and patterns.
Social Studies
We are continuing to study maps and will begin a state research project later this week. The majority of this project will be completed at school. The 3rd graders will be hosting a "Tourism Day" on October 27. This is the culminating event for this project. Students will have the opportunity during our "Tourism Day" to share all the information they learned about the state they researched.
Science
Reminder: Solar Houses are due on Monday, October 24th.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Curriculum Oct. 3 - 7
Envision Math
We completed Topic 3 last week and will be starting Topic 4 this week. We will be working on multiplication as repeated addition, arrays and multiplication, the commutative property, and writing multiplication stories.
We completed Topic 3 last week and will be starting Topic 4 this week. We will be working on multiplication as repeated addition, arrays and multiplication, the commutative property, and writing multiplication stories.
I will be sending home subtraction and addition fact sheets. There will be 3 addition and 3 subtraction sheets. They are to be used to practice at home and do not need to be returned to school. The time is four minutes for addition and five minutes for subtraction. They need to have 80% of the problems correct to receive a + on addition and subtraction for the quarter.
Rigby Reading
We will begin Theme 4 this week. The focus will be on synthesizing and inferring.
Synthesizing: Think about it as a puzzle. Take pieces from the story and put them together to form a new idea. Our previous thoughts about a topic join with new information to form the new idea about the topic. Our thinking gets bigger.
Inferring: This is reading between the lines. It is not what the author has said, but instead what they have implied.
Grammar- We will review subjects and predicates. We will also review the types of sentences.
Spelling
The Rigby words this week are an, book, teacher, two, afraid, explain, layer, crayon, eerie, and meant.
Grammar- We will review subjects and predicates. We will also review the types of sentences.
Spelling
The Rigby words this week are an, book, teacher, two, afraid, explain, layer, crayon, eerie, and meant.
The extension focus is bi, which means two.
bicolor, bicuspid, bicycle, biennial, bifocals, bilingual, bimonthly, biped, biplane, and biweekly.
Science
We completed a unit on phases of the moon and stars. The sky observation project is due on Monday, October 3. You should have received the Blazing Insulated House project guidelines last Monday. This project is due Monday, October 24.
Social Studies
We completed a unit on phases of the moon and stars. The sky observation project is due on Monday, October 3. You should have received the Blazing Insulated House project guidelines last Monday. This project is due Monday, October 24.
Social Studies
We will begin a unit on geography. The students will be learning about types of maps, continents, oceans, and states. Please mark Thursday, October 27 on your calendar. This will be our 3rd grade Tourism Day. This will be a culmination of an at school project where the students will focus on a specific state.
Writing
We will use the Four Square writing method to focus on a new story this week.
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