Field Day: Field Day is Wednesday, May 16th It begins at 9:30. Lunch is from 11:30 to 12:00. It ends at the end of the day. Students need to bring a towel to sit on, a sack lunch and drink, a water bottle, and a snack. Sunscreen should be applied at home that morning. Hats are also allowed. We will eat lunch out on the field. Parents are welcome to join us in the events and for lunch.
Our Banana Split Party to celebrate learning the multiplication facts will be May 22nd at 11:00. Please see the flyer that came home for more information about this.
The Talent Show is Friday, May 18th at 1:00 in the Eckburg Center. You are welcome to attend.
Type to Learn: Children will continue Type to Learn 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 finish reading Everything on a Waffle. Students will take the Reading Counts Test as soon as we have finished the last chapter. They will take a written test over the book on May 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 focusing on applying what we have learned in our writing.
Spelling: We will learn the words in Lesson 34. 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 will be working on creating a voice in their writing.
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 11C will be on Friday, May 18th. We will cover lessons 11-13 through 11-15. The Chapter 11 Test will be Monday, May 21st.
Social Studies: We will be doing some Scholastic News activities.
Bible: John 14:1 Jesus said, "Don't be worried! Have faith in God and have faith in me."