I am looking for people who would like to be the mystery reader this second half of the school year. Please go to the Weekly Reader tab above to see a list of available dates. Just email me once you have chosen your date. The kids love it when the mystery reader is someone in their family.
Reading Challenge: The next reading challenge is to get 225 Reading Counts points by March 8th. Teddie, Frankie, Caylie Maye, McCulloch, William, Geshna, and Kalina already have more than this many points. Way to go!
Georgia Day Project: The poster is due February 1st. The posters and paragraphs will be on display in the hall all during the month of February.
Reading: We will finish reading Shiloh. We will take the Reading Counts test on Tuesday. The Chaper 12-13 vocabulary test is also on Tuesday. On Wednesday we will watch the movie. I can't locate my copy of the movie so if someone has a copy I could borrow, I would appreciate it. We will also be working on learning a variety of figurative language literary devices.
Reading with Mrs. Chambers: If your child goes to Mrs. Chambers for reading, please go to her website at http://mrscchambers.weebly.com to find out what they are doing in reading each week.
Cursive Handwriting: All letters have been reviewed/taught. If your child continues to have trouble with a particular letter or letters, I will send home extra practice for him or her to do. On each spelling test students get a cursive handwriting grade. You will see this below the spelling test grade.
Language: We will continue with dictionary skills as well as learn correct verb usage.
Spelling: This week students will learn the words in Lesson 21. Students who get 100% on the spelling pretest on Monday will receive an accelerated spelling list for that week. You can go to www.spellingcity.com for online practice of the grade level spelling words each week. Just go "Find a List" and then for the teacher type in "SCPS Third Grade." All the lists for the entire year will appear. Just choose the one for this week.
Writing: Students will be working on word choice while writing a variety of forms of poetry.
Timed Tests: Timed tests will be on Tuesdays this year. Students have 1 minute for 25 problems, 2 minutes for 50 problems, or 4 minutes for 100 problems. The following weeks after we finish the eights timed test, students will be given a 100 problem multiplication timed test on Tuesdays that has problems going up to 10X10. Students will also have the opportunity to improve their score on their other multiplication timed tests. I will give then a list of the multiplication timed tests that they have not earned 100 on so that they may continue to practice at home. Each day the students will take one of these with the goal of getting 100% on each one. They are earning construction paper banana split pieces to work toward the goal of 100 percent mastery of the facts. We will be having a banana split party at the end of the year to celebrate the completion of this goal.
X7 on January 31st
X8 on February 7th
Math: We will continue Chapter 7 on division concepts and facts this week. We will cover lessons 7-8 through 7-11. Diagnostic Checkpoint 7B will be on Wednesday.
Social Studies: We will continue Chapter 5 called "A Community's Geography." We will learn what people add to places, how to read a landform map, and how people interact with their environment.
Bible: Psalm 33:4 "For the Word of the Lord is right and true; He is faithful in all He does."