Monday, September 26th is Johnny Appleseed’s birthday. We will be having a celebration! A note will be sent home as a reminder on Monday, September 19th. Your child will be asked to bring in a peeled, cored, and sliced apple to school on Monday, September 26th to be used to make applesauce for the class. We are looking for donations of small bowls, plastic spoons, and apple juice. If this is something you are interested in helping with, please email me or send the items in any day before Monday, September 26th. Thank you in advance for your help!
Here is our upcoming week in a nutshell:Science: This week we will begin chapter 4 on ecosystems.
Social Studies: This week we will have a continents and oceans quiz on Tuesday, September 20th. Students will need to identify where the 5 oceans and 7 continents are located on a map.
Math:We took our first chapter test today and will need to complete it on Monday. Please note that after we complete each chapter we will be going through our math folders to place un-needed papers in the "keep at home" pocket. Please help the students clear out the keep at home pockets nightly. Right after part two of our test, we will be starting Chapter 4 on Subtraction. We start off with a quick review of the subtraction touch math strategy and then discuss fact families, double and triple digit subtraction with regrouping, and subtracting across zeros.
SPELLING
We are pretesting with List #4 (vowel-consonant e pattern) on Monday of next week. Please remember that if your student receives a 90% or higher they will be working from the "challenge" list of words for their homework. All homework is due on Friday and if your student is taking the posttest, that will be Friday as well. Every week, students will be responsible for completing the cursive list of spelling words and either 2 activities from the challenge group - or - the workbook pages/possible abc order if they are in nonchallenge.
READING
Now we will start to put the reading strategies we have learned to great use while reading various types of literature. We will always be reviewing/using all of the strategies, but for the coming weeks we will highly focus on the strategies of sequencing and summarizing. The students will use basal reading stories, supplemental short stories, and possibly novels to extend their practice of understanding what they read. As a third grade we are really highlighting oral and written responses to what was read and will integrate this throughout. We will also work on an extended response where we use ideas from the text combined with our own ideas to answer a question.
ENGLISH
This week we will finish unit 1 on sentences, fragments, run-ons and subjects/predicates. A study guide went home today. There will be a test on Friday, September 23.
P.E.
There will be a soccer test on Thursday, September 22nd. Study guides will go home on Monday. Intramural Games Permission slips will be sent home on Monday. They are due back by Friday. More information can be found on the PE website.
