Grandparents' Day: All events take place in the Eckburg Center. Wednesday, April 18th at 9:00 a.m. is the 3rd-5th grade dress rehearsal. Thursday, April 19th at 1:45 p.m. is the parent preview. Friday, April 20th at 9:30 a.m. is the Grandparents' Performance. A reception will follow in the Eckburg Center. Students should wear white collared shirts ad blue jeans. ****A form went home two weeks ago. Please return this by Monday, April 16th.
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!!
Congratulations to Aidan, William, George, Hannah, and Tyler!!! Their team will be representing our class in the Third Grade Quiz Bowl, which will take place on Thursday, April 26th at 1:00. Parents of participants are welcome to attend.
Reading: We will continue reading Everything on a Waffle. Vocabulary Test 3 is on April 17th.
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 adjectives.
Spelling: We will learn the words in Lesson 29. The test will be Thursday. 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 continue 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 continue Chapter 10. We are only doing the first section in Chapter 10. The Diagnostic Checkpoint 10A will be on Monday, April 23rd. After that we will go on to Chapter 11.
Science: We will review Unit B, Chapter 2. The students will get a study guide on Monday. The test will be on Wednesday, April 18th. On Thursday, April 19th, we will have a Unit B Test over both Chapters 1 and 2. This test is all multiple choice. They will have a study guide for this test as well.
Bible: James 1:3 "You should know that you learn to endure by having your faith tested."