Friday, September 24th is a non-uniform day. Remember to send 25 cents with you child.
Book report: After this weekend, students should have finished the book for their book report. 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 before 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 is reading Ramona Quimby, Age 8.
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 review the capitalization rules. Test 3 in on Wednesday. It covers pages 17-25. We will then begin learning punctuation rules for the period.
Spelling: We will learn the words in lesson 5. 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 2-6 through 2-9. Diagnostic Checkpoint 2B 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 continue Unit A Chapter 1 called Types of Plants. Last week we learned what plants need, the parts of plants, and the functions of the plant cell parts. This week we will learn about leaf shape, simple plants that do not have a vascular system, and we will be sprouting some seeds.
Bible: This week's verse is Psalm 105:4 "Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always."