January 23-27

Hello!
I hope that you had a wonderful weekend. 

Later this week, I will be sending home a literacy playbook that should be played each night in review for the Kansas Reading State Assessment. This should be studied as part of homework each night and brought back to school each day to look over. Here are some links to the study guide and some prefix/suffix matching and quizzes that should be practiced at home as well.
prefix/suffix matching http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/match/dragflip.asp?filename=bleggett
prefix/suffix quiz http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/quiz/mquiz.asp?filename=bleggett
reading state assessment video game http://classtools.net/widgets/quiz_2/Meg49.htm

Math
We focused on analyzing data last week (mode, median, maximum, minimum, and range). This week we will work on probability. We will take a test on both concepts Friday, January 27th. I will be sending home a review packet on Thursday for them to study at home.

Rigby Reading
We will begin Theme 8, Week 1 in Rigby. We will focus on determining importance (we will identify the main idea and details) and review fix-up strategies.

Spelling
The word study focus this week is homophones. The Rigby words this week are better, clean, done, hair, hare, maul, mall, paws, pause, raise, rays, sea, see, principal, and principle.
The challenge list is with the prefix intra- (within, inside) intracellular, intradermal, intragalactic, intramural, intranasal, intraocular, intrapersonal, intrapsychic, intrastate, and intravenous.

Social Studies
We will continue our study of celebrations of cultures by looking at traditions, holidays, education, foods, sports, and languages. We finished our research last week and will begin our rough draft this week.  Students will be bringing their rough drafts home over the weekend to edit with you.  Next week we will start typing our final copy on the computers.  MOST of this project is done at school; however, there may be a time or two that your help is needed at home.  Thanks for supporting your child with this big project.  The kids are doing a great job thus far.  Our third grade International Festival will be on February 23.

Writing
We will begin our rough draft on our ancestor's culture and country from which they originated.

Have an awesome week with some nice weather! :)