Book report: After this weekend, students should have half the book for their book report read. After your child is finished reading the book, s/he should ask me for the book report materials which will then be used to complete the book report at home. Students will be making a story island to aide in learning about narrative elements. The book report is due on September 24th, but I will accept it early if your child wishes to complete it befor it is due.
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 Frindle on Tuesday. Students will take the Reading Counts test on it on Wednesday. On that day we will also due some culminating activities. On Thursday we will begin Ramona Quimby, Age 8. On Thursday I will be sending home a letter about what we will be doing with this book along with vocabulary test dates.
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 continue to learn about capitalization rules.
Spelling: We will learn the words in lesson 4. 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: We are working on making our ideas clear and more exact as well as writing paragraphs with a topic sentence, three or more detail sentences, and a concluding sentence. We will review indenting paragraphs and making sure all sentences are complete thoughts. We will also be going through the complete writing process by having students choose one rough draft that they have written. They will then edit it, have a peer edit it, and then write a final draft.
Timed Tests: Timed tests are on Wednesdays. This week will be 100 subtraction problems in 4 minutes. Students should be studying addition and subtraction math facts every night.
Math: We will continue with Chapter 2 this week on addition and subtraction number sense. We will complete lessons 2-2 through 2-5. Diagnostic Checkpoint 2A is on Thursday. Please remember you can do this at home with your child as practice before we do the graded one in class.
Science: We will begin Unit A Chapter 1 called Types of Plants.
Bible: This week's verse is Ephesians 6:1 "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right."