November 5th - 9th

Important Reminders:

Parent Teacher Conferences are this week on the following days and times:

Monday, Nov. 5^th- 4:40- 8:00

Tuesday, Nov. 6^th (no school for students)- 8:00- 3:40

Thursday, Nov. 8^th- 4:40-8:00

Friday, Nov. 9^th- Field Trip: Third Graders need to bring a cold lunch and snack because we are going on a field trip to see Great American Tall Tales.

Spelling – There will be no spelling test this week. Instead, we will review previous lists.

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

Reading – For the next two weeks, we will be reading The Talent Show by Susan Wojciechowski. In this story, Beany is anxious about the upcoming talent show. After a talk with her father, Beany realizes that some things in life are simply meant to be enjoyed! We will be practicing the strategy of creating mental images with some engaging writing and drawing activities that are connected to music. They will also have a chance to participate in a talent show in their homeroom. This is a voluntary activity for students and is a wonderful way for students to be able to show their talent to the class!

Vocabulary: gym, perform, prefer, recite, enjoying, billions, and roam

Writing- During the next unit, the students will learn how to write a Personal Narrative. Personal Narratives are stories written from the first-person’s point of view that share personal experiences through descriptive details. We will begin by immersing students in books which focus on how writers narrate stories from their own lives. We will examine how writers share both details and feelings that make the reader visualize the event in their mind. We will model how to brainstorm ideas for narratives by using our heart maps. This unit will be taught using the “I do”, “We do”, “You do” method. 

Students will then begin to create their own narrated stories. These are some of the areas that we will focus on: writing a good beginning and ending, staying on topic, telling how he/she felt about what happened (feelings important in personal narrative), using clear details and strong word choice, writing complete sentences and used correct spelling, capitals, end marks and grammar, and producing a one to three paragraph personal narrative. 

Social Studies- We will continue to focus on the government. We began with a story about how people arrived in America. We also discussed the land bridge and the Native Americans. Then we focused on Jamestown and the 13 colonies. After learning about the 13 colonies, the students learned 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 - Unit 3 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.