All children chose a realistic fiction chapter book on April 10th. They should have been reading it each day. They have until April 24th to have it finished and to take the Reading Counts test on it.
Type to Learn: Children will begin Type to Learn this Thursday, and we have it the first 30 minutes of each day. It is taught by Dell Cone (our media assistant) in the computer lab. It will continue every day until the last day of school.
Reading: We will continue reading Everything on a Waffle. Vocabulary Test 4 is on April 23rd.
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 31. 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: The Diagnostic Checkpoint 10A will be on Monday, April 23rd. After that we will go on to Chapter 11. We will cover lessons 11-1 through 11-4.
Social Studies: We will begin Chapter 7 called "Many Kinds of People." We will learn about myths, legends, and tall tale characters as well as real life heroes.
Bible: James 1:4 "But you must learn to endure everything, so that you will be completely mature and not lacking in anything."