Field Day for 3rd through 5th grade is on Thursday, May 9th from 9:30 until 2:00. Lunch is from 11:30-12:30. All students should bring a lunch from home along with a snack and plenty to drink. Students should wear an orange shirt along with shorts and tennis shoes. If you don't have an orange shirt, one of a similar color will be fine.
Xtra Math: Please remember to have your child do Xtra Math Monday though Friday. This is a daily homework assignment. If your computer crashes, etc., please just send me a note so your child can be excused for that night's practice.
Students need to choose any chapter book on their grade level and have it approved by me. Students should read the book and take the Reading Counts test on the book by May 24th.
Reading: We will continue reading Everything on a Waffle. The next vocabulary test is on Wednesday. Please encourage your child to make sure he or she answers the written comprehension questions fully and in complete sentences. We have been working hard in class on these skills to prepare the students for fourth grade accelerated reading.
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Cursive Handwriting: Students need to work on slowing down to improve neatness.
Language: We will be reviewing what we have learned this year. The next test is on Wednesday.
Spelling: Please make sure your child leaves the spelling workbook in his/her binder. We will learn the words in Lesson 29 this week. Students must also know the definitions for the vocabulary words and how to spell the words that are part of the definition. Under the spelling grade on each test is a grade (S, W, N, or U) for their cursive. 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 "Brenda Speir." All the lists for the entire year will appear. Just choose the one for this week.
Writing: This will be our last week of writing poetry.
Timed Tests: Timed tests will be on Tuesdays this year. For the remainder of this quarter we will focus on subtraction and multiplication. Students will no have a subtraction and multiplication timed test each week. ***We will also do an addition timed test on Friday of this week.****The multiplication tests will now be mixed with facts up to nine times nine. Students have 1 minute for 25 problems, 2 minutes for 50 problems, or 4 minutes for 100 problems.
Math: We will cover lessons 11-3 through 11-6. We will do Diagnostic Checkpoint 11A on Wednesday.
Science: We will begin Unit B Chapter 2 called "Living Things Depend on One Another." We will learn about producers, consumers, decomposers, food chains, food webs, herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores.
Bible: James 14:1 "Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me."