March 19 - 23

The 2012 Prairie Ridge Parent Survey is open!　 The school’s Site Council worked to shorten the length of the survey, so it will only take approximately 5 minutes to complete.　 Please note, surveys are set up by grade level, so if you have more than one student at PRE, we ask you complete one per child.　 This will allow you to provide specific feedback for each of your children.　 The survey closes on March 26^th.　 The school uses the survey information as a part of our continuous improvement process, and your feedback is valuable to us!　 Thank you for taking a few minutes to complete the survey.

Third Grade Prairie Ridge Parent Survey 2012

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Welcome back to school!  I hope you all enjoyed the beautiful weather and spring break with your kids.  It was great to see them again today!  :)  This week will be a normal week.  We will be preparing for our math testing next week so be prepared to see a variety of math homework topics.  Please let me know if you have any questions at all. 


Friday's Dr. Suess Day is Wear Red or Blue Day.  It is also a spirit day, Crazy Hair Day!  It's bound to be one wild day!

Math: 

We will be reviewing and preparing for the state math test next week.  Kids will have a play book to review at night with you.  We are currently running our math boot camp where the kids will rotate through each class to cover a different topic.  Please look over their homework each night and go over any questions they may have.  There will be questions similar to those on the state test.  We will be testing next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.  Personally, I am having the kids show their work even if they think it is incredibly easy for them.  Showing their work simply checks their mental math.  :)

Science:
We will begin a unit of sound and motion later this week.

Social Studies:
We will begin Unit 9 this week.  Our comprehension strategy is a review of making connections and compare/contrast information.

Grammar: 
We will review nouns.

Spelling:
The Rigby list is a list of nouns.  The words are buzzard, piano, boat, clown, airport, farm, cavern, giant, sponge, cluster, fable, author, bamboo, cloud and person.
The Extension list uses the prefix mis, which means bad or badly, wrong.  The words are misunderstand, mischievous, mistreat, mistreat, mislead, misjudge, misbehave, miserable, mistake, misfortune and misspell.

Writing:
We are finishing up the biographies for the Studentreasures hardback books.  If you have not sent in your order form, please do so by Thursday.  We will be mailing the books in to be published on Friday.  Let me know if you need a new form as I do have extra. 

As you can see, it will be a very busy week.  Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns at all.  :)