Please remember to send a $5 book for the Christmas gift exchange that we will have during the classroom Christmas party. Girls will trade with girls and boys with boys. It should be wrapped and labeled for girl or for boy. Happy shopping!
Congratulations to Morgan who has also now met the reading challenge along with Molly, Taylor, and Zadie! The reading challenge is to get 150 Reading Counts points by December 17th, the end of the second quarter. Getting 150 points by this date will put them on the right track for making it to the end of the year sleepover. For those who meet the challenge, I will be providing pizza for lunch when we come back to school in January. If anyone could send dessert, that would be wonderful too.
Reading: If your child has Mrs. Slaughter for reading, then you can go to her website at http://mrsslaughter.weebly.com to find out what they are doing in reading each week. If your child goes to Mrs. Chambers for reading, then you can go to her website at http://mrscchambers.weebly.com to find out what they are doing in reading each week. The accelerated group is reading The Best Christmsa Pageant Ever.
Cursive Handwriting: We have reviewed all the letters. Some students need extra practice at home as well. I will continue to write notes on the tops of paper for the children who are still finding it a challenge to form the cursive letters correctly.
Language: We will review verb usage, synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms this week. The next test is December 9th. It will cover pages 60 through 76. On Friday we will learn how to write friendly letters. All students need to bring a piece of paper with their address and the address of someone they want to write a letter to by Friday.
Spelling: We will be learning the words in Lesson 16 this week.The test is on Thursday. You can go to www.spellingcity.com for online practice of the spelling words each work. 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: This week we will be working on writing the research reports on the animals the students researched a few weeks ago. This quarter we will focus on organizing our ideas so that they flow together smoothly. Paragraphs should still be indented, have a topic sentence, three or more detail sentences, and a concluding sentence. We will continue to work on making sure all sentence are complete thoughts and not run-on sentences or fragments.
Timed Tests: Timed tests are on Wednesdays. Next week will be 100 subtraction problems in 4 minutes. Students should be studying addition and subtraction math facts every night.
Math: We will cover lessons 5-4 through 5-10 which will conclude this chapter. Diagnostic Checkpoint 5a is on Tuesday, December 7th. Diagnostic Checkpoint 5b is Monday, December 13th. The Chapter 5 math test is Tuesday, December 14th.
Chapters 5 and 6 are all about multiplication. It is a good idea to purchase a set of flash cards and begin practicing now.
Multiplication timed test dates:
December 6th - ones
December 8th - twos
December 15th - fives
January 7th - tens
January 13th - nines
January 21st - threes
January 28th - fours
February 4th - sixs
February 10th - sevens
February18th - eights
Science: We will continue Unit A Chapter 2 called "Types of Animals." We will learn about hibernation, migration, camouflage, mimicry, threatened, endangered, and extinct. Students will get a study guide on Friday for the Unit A Chapter 2 test which will be on Tuesday, December 14th.
Bible: The verse this week is I Timothy 6:12 "Fight the good fight of the faith."