Safe Shelter Donations: Thank you all so much for the donations you made to Safe Shelter. The ladies there repeated said what a blessing it was. They were so overwhelmed and impressed by the quantity and quality of the kind donations. The director even came out to join us to offer her thanks. They recently had a broken sprinkler which damaged some things and said that many supplies were almost used up. They were in desperate need and said our donation was a "God send."
Reading Challenge: The reading challenge was met by Isabella Mercer, Teddie Kapsamounov, Frankie Brunson, William Oliver, Caylie Maye Cornwell, McCulloch Hoxie, Geshna Paravata, Kalina Rashkov, and Allison DeYoung. They should be very proud of themselves. We will have our pizza party on Monday, December 19th.
Reading: We will be working on the following reading skills: drawing conclusions, following directions, and sequencing.
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 writing real letters this week and addressing envelopes. Then we will mail the letters. We will then review the skills we have learned this year. Test 8 will be on Friday, December 16th. It will cover all the skills we have learned this year.
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 work on adding oodles of adjectives to our writing.
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.
X9 on December 20th
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. Diagnostic Checkpoint 6A will be Monday, December 19th.
Science: We will finish Unit A Chapter 2 called "Types of Animals." This test will be on Monday, December 19th.
Bible: none