The Week of October 29

10/31 Halloween Parade 2:00 weather permitting
10/31 Halloween party 2:30 - 3:15
11/2 Report cards go home.

Remember to turn field trip form and fees by Monday, October 29.

Reading - This week we will continue reading Lon Po Po, by Ed Young. This Chinese version of Little Red Riding Hood is about three girls who encounter a wolf. They try to defend themselves while their mother is away visiting their grandmother. We will also be looking at the story from the other point a view, the wolf! The students will engage in some information gathering about wolves to see if they deserve their bad reputation.

Vocabulary: delighted, dusk, embraced, tender, brittle, latch, cunning

Writing - Halloween is this week, and we thought it would be fun to hear what the kids think about this holiday. They will be writing an opinoin piece on Halloween. In addition, they will have the opportunty to write a creative story when giving characters, setting, and an action. It will be a lot of fun to hear what they create on Halloween!

Grammar - The second quarter is devoted to prefixes, suffixes, root words, plural/possessive nouns, and figurative language(idioms, similes, metaphors, and onomatopoeia).

Spelling - List #9. This week the pattern is words with oi. The List #9 test will be Friday, November 2.

Social Studies- We will be moving on to social studies this week. Our next unit in social studies will focus on the government. We will begin with a story about how people arrived in America. This story will discuss the land bridge and the Native Americans. Then we will focus on Jamestown and the 13 colonies. After learning about the 13 colonies the students will learn about the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War, the Constitution, and the three branches of government. We will also be doing a research project this unit. The students will be researching a monument, creating a slide on power point, and writing a paragraph on a notecard to present to the class.

Third Grade Math - We will be moving into unit 3 which focuses on measurement, perimeter, and area. Students will be exposed to measuring with U.S. customary and metric units of length. In addition, they will learn the how to find the perimeter and area of a quadrilateral.

 

Accelerated Math- Unit 3 focuses on multiplication and division.  This week we will be reviewing the multiplication and division facts, discuss the relationship between the two, and work on story problems involving both.  The students will be reviewing the various key words used in number stories that help the student identify which type of problem they will be doing.  Please help your child study their facts.

Week of October 15, 2012

Reminder...  There is a half day of school this Wednesday.  The students will be released at 12:15!

 

 

Reading - We will continue our bat unit for one more week.  We have learned wonderful bat facts, compared fiction and non-fiction, put events in sequence, recognized the difference between fact and opinion and did some basic research.  This week we will be making some cute little bats and a poster to show what we have learned. 

Writing - The students will be putting their final touches on their Sea Creature stories this week. Students will be finishing up their final drafts.  We will then move on to a seasonal opinion piece of writing.

 

Grammar - The first quarter is devoted to reviewing nouns, verbs, adjectives, and types of sentences.

Spelling - List #7. This week the pattern is words with the sh, ch and tch pattern. The List #7 test will be Friday, October 19th.

Science-  Students have made their skeletons and are now learning how joints help to move our bones.  We will continue to practice naming some bones in our body, but will move on to learning about the muscular system this week.  The bones and muscles test will be coming up on the 26th of October.  A study guide will go home soon. 

 

Third Grade Math - We have moved into unit 2 which concentrates on solving addition and subtraction number stories. Students will be exposed to adding and subtracting with regrouping and estimating to determine if their answer is in "the ballpark". In addition, students have been practicing their 0, 1, 2, 5 and 10 multiplication facts. 

 

Accelerated Math-  Unit 2 is all about place value.  We have been practicing reading and writing large numbers.  Students have also reviewed what the "value" of each digit is in a large number.  This week we will continue to practice our multi-digit addition and subtraction to review place value.  We will also work with multi-digit number stories.  A study guide went home last week Friday and is due this Wednesday.  The Unit 2 test will be Thursday, 10/18.

Egyptian Fruit Bat ready to enjoy an apple!

Week of October 9-12

Hello all!  I hope you are all enjoying the Columbus Day holiday.  Here's what's happening this week in 3rd grade.

Author Visit-  Third Grade has the wonderful opportunity to meet Annie Barrows the popular author of the Ivy and Bean series.  She will be speaking to the students on Thursday afternoon.  If your student would like to purchase a book and get her autograph, just send back the purple order form that was given to students last week. Below the picture is a link to her website which gives more information about the series.

Ivy and Bean

Interim Assessments - This week Tuesday through Friday, the students will be taking diagnostic tests called Interim Assessments.  These tests are for district information about our current instruction and the gaps in the new Common Core standards.  This information is for district analysis only and no scores will be given to teachers or students. They will last approx. 45 to an hour a day.  

Reading - We are continuing our bat unit this week.  Besides learning wonderful bat facts, the classes will be comparing fiction and non-fiction, putting events in sequence, recognizing the difference between fact and opinion and doing some basic research.  At the end of the unit, students will be making some cute little bats to go along with our skeletons!  It's beginning to feel like Halloween in third grade! Some important vocabulary is ...

echolocation - nocturnal- mammal - species - megabat - microbat 

Writing - The students will be finishing up their Sea Creature stories this week.  Students will be revising and editing their rough drafts in preparation for writing their final copies. This is an engaging assignment that allowed students to use their creativity,  practice writing paragraphs and work through the writing process. 

Grammar - The first quarter is devoted to reviewing nouns, verbs, adjectives, and types of sentences.

Spelling - List #6. This week the pattern is words with the kn,  wr,  gh and ph pattern.  The List #6 test will be Friday, October 12th.

Science-  There will be little time for Science this week with the testing going on in the afternoon.  Students have made their skeletons and are now learning how muscles and joints work together to move our bones. The students will have a quiz on the bones we have been learning in class on Thursday, October 11. Check out the website on the blog to practice dem bones!


Third Grade Math -  We have moved into unit 2 which concentrates on solving addition and subtraction number stories. Students will be exposed to adding and subtracting with regrouping and estimating to determine if their answer  is in  "the ballpark". In addition,  students have been practicing their  0, 1, 2, 5 and 10 multiplication facts.