The children need to finish and take the Reading Counts test on their chapter book by May 11th.
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 continue reading Everything on a Waffle. Vocabulary Test 7 is Thursday, May 10th.
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 reviewing topics we have learned this year. The next test is Thursday, May 10th.
Spelling: We will learn the words in Lesson 33. 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 11B will be on Thursday, May 10th. We will cover lessons 11-8 through 11-12.
Social Studies: We will finish Chapter 7 called "Many Kinds of People." We will go over the study guide on Monday. The test is Wednesday, May 9th.
Bible: James 1:6 "But when you ask for something, you must have faith and not doubt. Anyone who doubts is like an ocean wave tossed around in a storm."