Welcome to third grade and to my weekly blog! You can check in here weekly for updates, important dates, and other classroom and school news.
I hope you get to enjoy time with family and friends during our upcoming long weekend!
Our class had a wonderful start to the new school year! I'm looking forward to a great year!
I hope to see many of you on Wednesday for Curriculum Night. We are starting at 6:30 in the gym. You will then head to your child's math classroom. (Math teachers will send an email on Tuesday evening to remind you.) After the math presentations, you will head to your child's homeroom.
Our class will be taking the math MAP test on Tuesday. The reading MAP test will be on Friday.
Here is our upcoming week in a nutshell:
*Reading: We will begin with an overview of the reading strategies we will focus on during the year with some fun activities and read alouds. We will begin Daily 5.
*English: We will begin ch. 1: the Sentence. We will have a pretest to assess prior information. Your child will have a learning contract that will tailor the lessons to his/her knowledge base. We will also begin DOL (Daily Oral Language) as we practice punctuation skills in every day writing.
* Spelling: We will begin with names of students in our class. We begin each week with a pretest. If your child gets 2 or less wrong, they will be in the challenge list. Both groups have homework for the week which reinforces a common spelling rule. The test will be on Friday. The students who were in the challenge group can take their pretest grade for their final grade or retake the test to try for 100%. A sheet outlining the spelling procedures will be sent home Tues.
*Social Studies: We will begin our Maps unit this week, focusing on directions and using a compass rose.
* Math: We will begin Math on Wed. We will meet again briefly on Thurs (due to our MAPs testing schedule, we had to make some minor adjustments this week). We will then begin meeting daily from 10-11 the following week.
*English: We will begin ch. 1: the Sentence. We will have a pretest to assess prior information. Your child will have a learning contract that will tailor the lessons to his/her knowledge base. We will also begin DOL (Daily Oral Language) as we practice punctuation skills in every day writing.
* Spelling: We will begin with names of students in our class. We begin each week with a pretest. If your child gets 2 or less wrong, they will be in the challenge list. Both groups have homework for the week which reinforces a common spelling rule. The test will be on Friday. The students who were in the challenge group can take their pretest grade for their final grade or retake the test to try for 100%. A sheet outlining the spelling procedures will be sent home Tues.
*Social Studies: We will begin our Maps unit this week, focusing on directions and using a compass rose.
* Math: We will begin Math on Wed. We will meet again briefly on Thurs (due to our MAPs testing schedule, we had to make some minor adjustments this week). We will then begin meeting daily from 10-11 the following week.
