I will be out on Friday as I am chaperoning the fourth grade field trip to Charleston. Friday is also the last day to earn Reading Counts points for the sleepover but not for the year. The media center will still be open for a couple more weeks, and students may still take tests all the way through the end of the school year. Friday is also a non-uniform day.
Reading: The accelerated reading group will be reading Everything on a Waffle. Vocabulary test 5 will be on Friday, April 29th. If your child has Mrs. Slaughter for reading, then you can go to her website at http://mrsslaughter.weebly.com to find out what they are doing in reading each week. If your child goes to Mrs. Chambers for reading, then you can go to her website at http://mrscchambers.weebly.com to find out what they are doing in reading each week.
Cursive Handwriting: Many students need to slow down so that their cursive is not messy. All words should sit on the line, tall letters should touch the top line, and a, o, and d must be closed.
Language: We will learn about adjectives this week.
Spelling: We will learn the words in lesson 31 this week. The test will be on Friday since there was no school on Monday. You can go to www.spellingcity.com for online practice of the 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: We are now working on sentence fluency. This includes adding variety to sentence length, sentence beginnings, and types of sentences within a paragraph. ***The students had a great time reading each other's books last week. They voted for best story (Abby Richards' The Panel Mystery), best illustrations (Ashley Dalsania's The Lost Duckling), and the most humerous (Morgan Axtell's The Big Fat Cat). Each winner received a special prize plus the loud accolades of their peers.
Timed Tests: Timed tests for addition and subtraction are on Wednesdays. This week will be 100 subtraction problems in 4 minutes. Students should be studying addition and subtraction math facts every night. Now that students have been tested over each multiplication fact set separately, they will be tested with the multiplication facts mixed up. On these tests, the highest fact will be 10 times 10. These tests will be every Friday until the end of the school year so students need to be practicing the facts mixed up each night as well.
Math: We will finish section A in Chapter 10 on decimals this week. We will cover lessons 10-4 through 10-5. Diagnostic Checkpoint 10A will be on Thursday. We will then move to Chapter 11 on multiplying and dividing greater numbers. It is key for students to have mastered all their mutliplication math facts at this point in order to smoothly complete the lessons in this chapter.
Science: We will continue Unit B, Chapter 2 called "Living Things Depend on One Another." This week we will learn about food chins and food webs.
Bible: Psalm 119:105 "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path."