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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
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! :)
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! :)
Monday, January 9, 2012
January 9-13
Welcome to the New Year!!!
It was so great to get back into the swing of things last week after having such a nice holiday break. I loved having the kiddos back and I can tell they are all rested and ready to take on the 2nd half of 3rd grade. We were all anxious to meet Trey last week. Trey was just as excited to meet his new Kansas friends; however, he said he'd still like to have some snow!
Grace Riley and Kaiden Cook will represent our class in the school spelling bee this Thursday at 2:00pm. Good luck!
State assessments will be here before we know it! We will be spending a lot of time over the next 2 months preparing for them. This will be the very first time these students take a state assessment, therefore we will be working very hard in order to get the students ready to take them.
Reading Assessments will be given to the 3rd graders February 28-March 1.
Math Assessments will be given to the 3rd graders March 27-29.
Please try not to schedule appointments for these days.
Report cards will be coming home today. Please sign the cover sheet and return it to school with your child.
Also, Mrs. Ronchetti has a fun field trip planned to the symphony with the 3rd graders. Please sign the permission slip and return it to school with $2.
International Festival:
Today in Monday folders you will find a letter that will give you some information about the International Festival. The boys and girls will be in responsible for researching and learning about their own culture and/or heritage. This information will be presented at our International Festival which will be held on February 23.
Reading:
We will be starting Theme 7, On Moving Ground, this week. Students will learn and practice fix-up strategies while they read. Small Group focus for the next month will be on state assessment preparation, rather than novel and small-book work.
Spelling:
The pattern for the week will be: synonyms and antonyms. The prefix pattern for the week is "-dis", which means not or none.
Math:
This week we will learn about "Time."
Social Studies:
We will begin researching for our International Festival. The students will learn notetaking skills and will gather information about the culture they are studying on notecards.
It was so great to get back into the swing of things last week after having such a nice holiday break. I loved having the kiddos back and I can tell they are all rested and ready to take on the 2nd half of 3rd grade. We were all anxious to meet Trey last week. Trey was just as excited to meet his new Kansas friends; however, he said he'd still like to have some snow!
Grace Riley and Kaiden Cook will represent our class in the school spelling bee this Thursday at 2:00pm. Good luck!
State assessments will be here before we know it! We will be spending a lot of time over the next 2 months preparing for them. This will be the very first time these students take a state assessment, therefore we will be working very hard in order to get the students ready to take them.
Reading Assessments will be given to the 3rd graders February 28-March 1.
Math Assessments will be given to the 3rd graders March 27-29.
Please try not to schedule appointments for these days.
Report cards will be coming home today. Please sign the cover sheet and return it to school with your child.
Also, Mrs. Ronchetti has a fun field trip planned to the symphony with the 3rd graders. Please sign the permission slip and return it to school with $2.
International Festival:
Today in Monday folders you will find a letter that will give you some information about the International Festival. The boys and girls will be in responsible for researching and learning about their own culture and/or heritage. This information will be presented at our International Festival which will be held on February 23.
Reading:
We will be starting Theme 7, On Moving Ground, this week. Students will learn and practice fix-up strategies while they read. Small Group focus for the next month will be on state assessment preparation, rather than novel and small-book work.
Spelling:
The pattern for the week will be: synonyms and antonyms. The prefix pattern for the week is "-dis", which means not or none.
Math:
This week we will learn about "Time."
Social Studies:
We will begin researching for our International Festival. The students will learn notetaking skills and will gather information about the culture they are studying on notecards.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
NOVEMBER 28 - DECEMBER 2
Hello Parents!
Welcome back from the long holiday weekend! Hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving and got some time to think about all the things we have to be thankful for! Now after all that turkey, it is time to get back to business for 3 more weeks!
Our class went to MVHS yesterday to have our reader's theater recorded by the video and production class. The kids performed fabulously! I will keep you posted as to when we will be able to view the production.
December is always a very busy month with lots of things added to our schedules. Check out the REMINDERS at the bottom of this post. :)
Here is what is going on this week!
Math
We will continue our Geometry unit on two-dimensional shapes and their attributes. This week we will cover how polygons can be put together and taken apart to make new polygons.
Reading
This week we will start a Rigby theme about Recycling and our comprehension strategy we will focus on is determining importance.
Spelling
We will continue to have a 15 word Rigby list and the challenge list. This week the prefix is super-, sur- which means over, above, beyond.
The Rigby list is: can, cook, find, your, bigger, bragger, dimmed, dropping, hugging, ripped, splitting, strumming, tripped, wetter, and transferred.
The challenge list is: superb, superimpose, superintendent, superior, supervisor, surcharge, surplus, surprise, surreal, and surtax.
Science
This week we are starting a new unit on recycling/pollution and inventions. We will only get to introduce this unit but will start more detail and projects next week.
Social Studies
After so much work from our five wonderful candidates, I would like to announce our President and Vice President after Tuesday's election: Hunter and Peyton! The class will now start campaigning for Hunter to be the president of the entire 3rd grade! We will be working on our campaign all week and the final election is this Friday.
Grammar
We will be reviewing adjectives, root words, prefixes, and suffixes. We will be making posters, jingles, and playing bingo!
Have a good week!
12/15 Winter Party at 3:00 pm
Welcome back from the long holiday weekend! Hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving and got some time to think about all the things we have to be thankful for! Now after all that turkey, it is time to get back to business for 3 more weeks!
Our class went to MVHS yesterday to have our reader's theater recorded by the video and production class. The kids performed fabulously! I will keep you posted as to when we will be able to view the production.
December is always a very busy month with lots of things added to our schedules. Check out the REMINDERS at the bottom of this post. :)
Here is what is going on this week!
Math
We will continue our Geometry unit on two-dimensional shapes and their attributes. This week we will cover how polygons can be put together and taken apart to make new polygons.
Reading
This week we will start a Rigby theme about Recycling and our comprehension strategy we will focus on is determining importance.
Spelling
We will continue to have a 15 word Rigby list and the challenge list. This week the prefix is super-, sur- which means over, above, beyond.
The Rigby list is: can, cook, find, your, bigger, bragger, dimmed, dropping, hugging, ripped, splitting, strumming, tripped, wetter, and transferred.
The challenge list is: superb, superimpose, superintendent, superior, supervisor, surcharge, surplus, surprise, surreal, and surtax.
Science
This week we are starting a new unit on recycling/pollution and inventions. We will only get to introduce this unit but will start more detail and projects next week.
Social Studies
After so much work from our five wonderful candidates, I would like to announce our President and Vice President after Tuesday's election: Hunter and Peyton! The class will now start campaigning for Hunter to be the president of the entire 3rd grade! We will be working on our campaign all week and the final election is this Friday.
Grammar
We will be reviewing adjectives, root words, prefixes, and suffixes. We will be making posters, jingles, and playing bingo!
Have a good week!
REMINDERS:
12/2 3rd Grade Presidential Election
12/8 3rd Grade Music Program at 10 am & 7 pm
12/9 Crazy Holiday Clothes Day
12/13 Cool the Earth Assembly
12/15 Winter Party at 3:00 pm
12/16 Half Day of School
12/16 End of 2nd Quarter
12/17 - 1/04 Winter Break
1/05 School Resumes
Monday, November 14, 2011
November 14-18
Reading-
We will continue to read stories about transportation this week, while practicing how to create images about the text we read.
Math-
We completed multiplication today with our Topic 6 Test. We will be studying geometry for the remainder of the week. The lessons will include these topics: Lines and Line Segments, Angles, Polygons and Triangles.
Writing-We will begin descriptive writing this week. I want others to be able to create images in their minds from the descriptions our kids will be writing.
Social Studies-We learned about the 3 branches of government last week and will learn about citizenship this week. Students will understand the differences between Rights and Responsibilities.
Formative Assessments-We began taking formative assessments, which are practice tests for State Assessments. We will be taking one in reading and one in math every week. In reading, the students will be tested on narrative and expository reading passages. In math, the students will take short quizzes that each emphasize a specific math skill.
Spelling-The patterns for this week are silent b,g, and gh (I have added to this list and it will now be a 15 word list). The Rigby words are anything, think, us, way, sign, bright, doubt, sigh, dough, subtle, debt, design, gnat, sleigh and reign.
The Extension list focuses on the prefix- "sub-" which means under. Those words are subconscious, subcutaneous, subdue, subfreezing, subirrigate, subject, submarine, submerge, subordinate and subway.
We will continue to read stories about transportation this week, while practicing how to create images about the text we read.
Math-
We completed multiplication today with our Topic 6 Test. We will be studying geometry for the remainder of the week. The lessons will include these topics: Lines and Line Segments, Angles, Polygons and Triangles.
Writing-We will begin descriptive writing this week. I want others to be able to create images in their minds from the descriptions our kids will be writing.
Social Studies-We learned about the 3 branches of government last week and will learn about citizenship this week. Students will understand the differences between Rights and Responsibilities.
Formative Assessments-We began taking formative assessments, which are practice tests for State Assessments. We will be taking one in reading and one in math every week. In reading, the students will be tested on narrative and expository reading passages. In math, the students will take short quizzes that each emphasize a specific math skill.
Spelling-The patterns for this week are silent b,g, and gh (I have added to this list and it will now be a 15 word list). The Rigby words are anything, think, us, way, sign, bright, doubt, sigh, dough, subtle, debt, design, gnat, sleigh and reign.
The Extension list focuses on the prefix- "sub-" which means under. Those words are subconscious, subcutaneous, subdue, subfreezing, subirrigate, subject, submarine, submerge, subordinate and subway.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
November 4 - 7
The third grade is sponsoring a great program called Cool the Earth. The program began yesterday and will run through December 15. It is a program where the kids will take an initiative towards helping the earth. The students came home with a coupon book yesterday. They only need to complete a task one time to bring the coupon in. The pledge is for them to try to continue it, but not anything they will need to keep track of. Our school goal is to have each child complete AT LEAST 3 coupons but more would be even better! Check the Monday Folder for more information or let me know if you have any questions.
Math
This week in math we will continue to work on Topic 6. Depending on how the week goes, we may have our Topic 6 Test this Friday, I will let you all know as this week goes on! We will continue to work on multiplication and find the number of combinations that are possible between the members of one group and the members of another group. We will also work on two-step story problems towards the end of the week.
Reading We start a new unit in Rigby, Theme 6 which is called "Roads to Travel On." This week our comprehension focus will be creating mental images while reading.
Writing/Grammar
We will continue to focus on prefixes and suffixes and how they can change a word.
Social Studies/Science
This week we will start our unit on government. Students will learn government vocabulary and the importance of documents such as the Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights, and The Constitution.
SpellingThe Rigby Spelling list will focus on silent consonants w, h, b, g, and gh. The Rigby words are room, same, saw, that's, comb, honest, limb, numb, wrist, and tomb. The extension list focus is contra, counter (against, opposite). The extensions words are contraband, contradict, contrarian, contrary, contrast, counterbalance, counterclockwise, counterexample, counterfeit, counterintuitive.
Math
This week in math we will continue to work on Topic 6. Depending on how the week goes, we may have our Topic 6 Test this Friday, I will let you all know as this week goes on! We will continue to work on multiplication and find the number of combinations that are possible between the members of one group and the members of another group. We will also work on two-step story problems towards the end of the week.
Reading We start a new unit in Rigby, Theme 6 which is called "Roads to Travel On." This week our comprehension focus will be creating mental images while reading.
Writing/Grammar
We will continue to focus on prefixes and suffixes and how they can change a word.
Social Studies/Science
This week we will start our unit on government. Students will learn government vocabulary and the importance of documents such as the Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights, and The Constitution.
SpellingThe Rigby Spelling list will focus on silent consonants w, h, b, g, and gh. The Rigby words are room, same, saw, that's, comb, honest, limb, numb, wrist, and tomb. The extension list focus is contra, counter (against, opposite). The extensions words are contraband, contradict, contrarian, contrary, contrast, counterbalance, counterclockwise, counterexample, counterfeit, counterintuitive.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
October 31 - November 4
October 31- November 4
Happy Halloween!!! I hope you all had a safe and enjoyable evening last night. I did not assign any homework last night so I hope the kids had a great time. Please note that Halloween candy should not be sent to school for snack. Thanks for keeping your kids fueled with healthy snacks here at school. :)
After last week's full week of activities, we will be getting back to our normal routines this week. Please look over what we have planned and let me know if you have any questions.
Reading- We will continue with Theme 5 this week. Small reading groups will begin reading various chapter books. Be sure to ask your child what book he/she is reading.
Spelling- The Rigby pattern this week is "oy and oi" and the list is found, laugh, sleep, something, avoid, choice, destroy, oyster, royal, turquoise. The prefix pattern this week is "co- and com-" which means together or with and the list is coexist, cohesive, coincidence, combine, commiserate, committee, communication, community, compare and compatible.
Grammar- We will practice combining sentences this week. This will help devleop the students sentence fluency when they write.
Math- We are contininuing to learn our basic multiplication facts this week. We will learn how to multiply by 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8. After this week, they will have learned all their facts through 10, so it would be a good time to get some flash cards so they can practice memorizing them at home.
Science- This week we will be learning about weather.
After last week's full week of activities, we will be getting back to our normal routines this week. Please look over what we have planned and let me know if you have any questions.
Reading- We will continue with Theme 5 this week. Small reading groups will begin reading various chapter books. Be sure to ask your child what book he/she is reading.
Spelling- The Rigby pattern this week is "oy and oi" and the list is found, laugh, sleep, something, avoid, choice, destroy, oyster, royal, turquoise. The prefix pattern this week is "co- and com-" which means together or with and the list is coexist, cohesive, coincidence, combine, commiserate, committee, communication, community, compare and compatible.
Grammar- We will practice combining sentences this week. This will help devleop the students sentence fluency when they write.
Math- We are contininuing to learn our basic multiplication facts this week. We will learn how to multiply by 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8. After this week, they will have learned all their facts through 10, so it would be a good time to get some flash cards so they can practice memorizing them at home.
Science- This week we will be learning about weather.
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