School starts up again on January 5th. See you all then!
Thank you all for all the many kind Christmas cards and gifts! I am so blessed to work at S.C.P.S. and to teach your children. Thank you for raising such sweet, kind children. Each week I see them growing and learning and am looking forward to the second half of the school year with them. It is amazing how much they learn in third grade!
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. Caylie Maye, McCulloch, William, Geshna, and Kalina already have more than this many points. Way to go!
Georgia Day Project: On January 5th, students will be bringing home a sheet explaining the Georgia Day project. In class students will be picking a location to visit. While at the location, they will fill out the information sheet which is due January 23rd. We will use the information sheet to write a paragraph in school. Students will also be making a poster at home. 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 begin reading Shiloh. A note to parents explaining expectations and vocabulary test dates will come home this week. 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 be learning the correct usage for a and an.
Spelling: There will not be a spelling list 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: We will be writing a final draft about a pretend bug the students discovered. We will also be writing goals for 2012.
Timed Tests: Timed tests will be on Tuesdays this year. This month students will have a subtraction and a multiplication timed test each Tuesday. Students have 1 minute for 25 problems, 2 minutes for 50 problems, or 4 minutes for 100 problems. Below is the list of test dates for the multiplication timed tests. I sent home a packet last Monday that had the test dates listed, test parameters, and example tests that you may photocopy for practice at home.
X3 on January 10th
X4 on January 17th
X6 on January 24th
X7 on January 31st
X8 on February 7th
Math: We will continue Chapter 6 which continues our investigation of multiplication concepts. This week we will complete lessons 6-7 through 6-9.
Social Studies: We will begin Chapter 2 called "Communities Are Places." Students will learn about the geography of their community. We will also continue the geography skills we were learning about earlier in the year.
Bible: none