Reading Challenge: If anyone can get 75 Reading Counts points by October 7th, I will treat them to a pizza party the following day. Yah for Caylie Maye Cornwell, McCulloch Hoxie, Geshna Paravata, Kalina Rashkov, and Allison DeYoung!!!! They have meet the reading challenge!
Monday is S.C.P.S.'s 60th birthday. A special picture will be taken, so please make sure your child wears his/her uniform this day (no NUT cards). Thanks!
Monday is also Open House. Please bring your child back to school that evening at 7:00 p.m. We will begin in the Eckburg Center and then come back to the classroom so that your child can show you all the wonderful things going on in our room.
Picture proofs were sent home last week. If you wish to order pictures, the form must be returned by September 26th.
Book report: The book report is due September 23rd.
Reading: We are reading Ramona Quimby, Age 8. The vocabulary test over the words in chapters 4-6 is on Monday, September 26th.
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 will learn the punctuation rules for periods and commas this week.
Spelling: We will learn the words in Lesson 5 this week. 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 learning how to write making sure all their detail sentences stick to the topic. They will be writing a paragraph about our school.
Timed Tests: Timed tests will be on Tuesdays this year. This month we will focus on subtraction. Students have 1 minute for 25 problems, 2 minutes for 50 problems, or 4 minutes for 100 problems.
Math: We will continue Chapter 2 called "Addition and Subtraction Number Sense." We will do lessons 2-8 through 2-11 this week. Diagnostic Checkpoint 2B will be on Tuesday.
Science: We will begin with Unit A Chapter 1 on plants. Students will be learning what plants need, plant parts, the parts of a plant cell and what the parts do, and how plants adapt to their environment.
Bible: Be able to write Matthew 5:9-10 "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs."