The week of October 18-22 Lower School Outreach is collecting items to be donated to the homeless. We will be collecting socks, stocking hats, gloves, and scarves. If you are able, please donate something for this worthy cause.
October Book Report: For this book report, students will be creating their own Reading Counts test on a chapter book. For this reason, the book they choose cannot be a Reading Counts test book. I will be sending home guidelines on creating the Reading Counts test. After Mrs. Tootle and I put the tests in the Reading Counts program, the student who created it will be the first to take the test. Punctuation, spelling, and correct grammar count as well as coming up with good questions. The book report is due October 29th.
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 will finish Ramona Quimby, Age 8 this week.
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 learn about possessive words and quotation marks this week.
Spelling: No spelling words this week due to the short week. Next week we will learn the words in lesson 9. 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 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. This week will be 100 addition problems in 4 minutes. Students should be studying addition and subtraction math facts every night.
Math: We will continue Chapter 3 on adding and subtracting. We will cover lessons 3-6 through 3-7. Diagnostic Checkpoint 3A will be Wednesday, October 13th.
Social Studies: We will begin a unit on geography and begin Chapter 1 about communities.
Bible: This week's verse is Psalm 37:4 "Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart."