Quiz Bowl for Georgia Book Award Nominees: We will have read all the Georgia Book Award Nominees by next week. I sent home a list that contained a summary on each book along with the title and author of each book. I sent another list home last Friday. Please help your child review the summaries, titles, and authors in order to help him/her prepare for our class Quiz Bowl which will be April 12th at 1:00. The students will be divided into teams. The team that wins will then go up against the two winning teams from the other two third grade classes (date TBA). At this final event, you will be invited to join us to cheer on our team.
Jacksonville Zoo Field Trip: The students received a packet last Wednesday detailing our end-of-the-year field trip to the Jacksonville Zoo. The check for $65 and both sides of the Emergency Health Information and Permission Form are due by April 20th. This is my favorite field trip of the year. Your child is going to love it!!
Reading: We will continue reading Everything on a Waffle. Vocabulary Test 2 is on April 11th.
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 reviewing correct usage. The next test will be Friday, April 13th.
Spelling: We will learn the words in Lesson 28. The test will be April 12th. 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 continuing to work on sentence fluency. We will also begin working on writing an imaginative story that has original characters, a creative setting, a problem, and a solution.
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 finish Chapter 9 this week. The test will be on Wednesday. The cumulative test over Chapters 1 through 9 will be on Thursday. We will begin Chapter 10 on Friday.
Science: We will continue Unit B Chapter 2 called "Living Things Depend on One Another." This week we will learn about food webs and energy pyramids.
Bible: James 1:2 "Consider it a gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides."