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!
If you wish to order pictures, the form must be returned by September 26th.
Book report: Children should choose a third grade or higher Reading Counts chapter book that is a biography or autobiography for their October book report. All books need to be shown to Mrs. Speir for approval. The book needs to be finished and the Reading Counts test taken by October 17. After that, I will explain and hand out the book report directions to the class.
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 continue to learn the punctuation rules for periods and commas this week.
Spelling: We will learn the words in Lesson 7 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: For the next five weeks students will be learning how to organize their writing. This week we will focus on writing bold beginnings, interesting middles, and endings that wrap everything up.
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 finish Chapter 2 called "Addition and Subtraction Number Sense." We will do lessons 2-12 on Monday. Diagnostic Checkpoint 2C will be on Tuesday. The chapter test will be on Wednesday. Students will do the practice test on pages 112-113 in the math book Tuesday night for homework. You are welcome to start this early.
Science: We will continue with Unit A Chapter 1 on plants. This week we will be planting our seeds in soil, and learning about simple plants, the parts of a seed, what seeds need, and the parts of a flower.
Bible: Be able to write Matthew 5:11-12 "Blessed are they when they insult you and persecute you and falsely say every kind of evil against you because of Me. Be glad and rejoice, because your reward is great in heaven. For that is how they persecuted in prophets before you."