Week of November 28th - December 2nd

Important Reminders -
Friday - Spirit Day and Walk to School

Reading -  Nate the Great: San Francisco Detective is the next story that we will be reading.  In this mystery, Detective Nate the Great searches San Francisco for a lost joke book.  He discovers that the wrong place can be the best place to look for a lost item.  The students will be discussing cause and effect for the strategy.  The cause is the reason that something happens.  An effect is what happens because of something else.   Please read the story with your child sometime this week.  There will be a quiz this week on Nate the Great: San Fracisco Detective.

Vocabulary:  detective, specific, positive, case, returned, definitely, assistant


Writing -  We will continue to work on writing extended response answers every week.  In the meantime, the students will begin a new writing unit this week.  They will learn about Research Writing.  We will show the students many examples of different research papers.  Then the students will identify several things they noticed in all of the research papers.  We will create a list of noticings for Research Writing.

Grammar - We will continue our focus on Plurals and Possessives this week. Please click on the links to the right to practice these important skills.

Spelling -  This week's spelling list #10 focuses on words that contain the /ou/ sound.  The pattern will have either ou or ow in each of the words.  There will be a test on Friday.

Math -
Third Grade Math-  We are continuing to work on multiplication and division in unit 4 this week.  Practicing our facts will be a daily activity.  We will discuss how division ties into multiplication and their fact families.  We will also learn how to play Baseball Multiplication!  Please try to play this game with your child.  Directions are included in the SRB.  Please help your child practice their multiplication facts!
Accelerated Math- Unit 4 focuses on decimals. The concepts we will review on decimals are: place value, comparing and ordering, estimating, addition and subtraction, money and units of length.

Social Studies -  We are concluding our government unit this week with a research project.  The students will be researching a specific national symbol, landmark, or monument.  After taking notes on their topic, the students will be creating a powerpoint slide to display their information.  In the end, we will combine all the slides together to create a class powerpoint on our important symbols for our country.