I have a challenge for all my third graders. If anyone can get 75 Reading Counts points by October 12th, I will treat them to a pizza party the following Monday. By getting to 75 points by this day, students are on the path to earning the Reading Counts Spend-the-Night party at the end of the school year.
On the Alien Mystery Reader page to my website, you can see which dates are booked and which are still available for you to sign up to be one of our mystery readers. Once you pick a date that is still available, just send me an email, and I will sign you up.
Book Report: All students have chosen a 3rd grade (if in Mrs. Chamber's or Mrs. Slaughter's reading group) or a 4th grade (if in my reading group) Reading Counts chapter book for the book report. After finishing the book and taking the Reading Counts test, he or she will then receive the book report materials.
Reading: My reading group will be reading Frindle for the first half of the quarter. We will have a vocabulary test over the words in Chapters 13-15 on Wednesday.
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Reading with Mrs. Slaughter:
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Cursive Handwriting: We will practice all letters. Students need to focus on sitting all words on the line and making tall letters such as all capital letters and lower case b, d, f, h, k, l, and t should touch the top line.
Language: Test 2 over the capitalization rules on pages 12 through 16 will be on Tuesday. We will learn be learning the rest of the capitalization rules during the remainder of the week.
Spelling: Yah!!!! Our spelling workbook is here. It contains all the lists for the year. Please make sure your child leaves it in his/her binder. We will learn the words in Lesson 4. Students must also know the definitions for the vocabulary words and how to spell the words that are part of the definition. The test will be on Thursday. 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: Students will learn how to identify and write topic sentences, detail sentences, and concluding sentences. We will write paragraphs about places they like to read.
Timed Tests: Timed tests will be on Tuesdays this year. This quarter we will focus on addition and subtraction. Students have 1 minute for 25 problems, 2 minutes for 50 problems, or 4 minutes for 100 problems.
Math: On Monday, September 10th will do Diagnostic Checkpoint 1C. This will be graded. There is a copy of it in the math book and online so you are welcome to have your child do it at home for practice before we do the graded one in class. Tuesday, September 11th will be the Chapter 1 Math Test. For homework Monday, students will complete the practice test in the math book and turn it in to me the next day.
Social Studies: We will complete part of Chapter 11 called "Making and Selling Products." We will discuss how businesses work and free enterprise. Students need to bring in an advertisement from a newspaper or magazine
Bible: Matthew 5:4 "Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted." Be prepared to write the verse on Friday. Spelling does not count but capitalization does.