Field Trip: We are going to Oatland Island on Wednesday. Students need to bring a lunch, drink, and snack. We will be eating our snack before the trip. The program lasts from 10:00 to 12:30. You are welcome to join us. The cost for parents is $5. Please pay the folks there when you arrive. You are also welcome to join us for lunch. We are eating at the pavilion there. You may check your child out after the program. If doing so, please let me know so that I can have him/her packed up and ready to go. We will be outside the entire day so please have your child dress for the weather. We go rain or shine.
Poetry Reading: I will be having a poetry reading on Thursday, March 8th from 12:15 to 1:30. Students will be reading the eight poems they wrote during the last month and a half. I would love to have parents attend. I would like to have the room set up like a cafe with some simple table cloths over the desks and let them drink punch or tea. If you can help with the table cloths, punch, or tea, please let me know. Thanks!!!
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! Several more students are very close.
Book report: Students must take the test on their historical fiction chapter book by February 29th.
Reading: We will begin reading Dear Mr. Henshaw. The first vocabulary test will be March 2nd.
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 are learning about nouns.
Spelling: There will learn the words in lesson 25 this week. 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 are working on sentence fluency. So far we have discussed how students should use a variety of sentence lengths, a variety of sentence types, and a variety of sentence beginnings to make their writing sparkle.
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.
Math: We will continue Chapter 8 on geometry and measurement. We will cover lessons 8-10 through 8-12 this week. Diagnostic Checkpoint 8B is on Tuesday.
Science: We will begin learning about deserts and complete a desert report this week.
Bible: Psalm 33:8 "let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the people of the world revere Him."