*Goo, Glob, & Guts Wed. 10/3
*L.1 Reading Quiz Thurs. 10/4
*September Reading Party Thurs. 10/4
*Spelling Test Fri. 10/5
*Hemisphere Quiz Fri. 10/5
*Spirit Day Friday 10/5
Classroom Chatter
We will be having our inschool field trip on Wednesday. A scientist from High-Touch High-Tech will present to the class Goo, Glob & Guts. Ask your child about their experience!
We will have our first reading party at lunch on Thursday with Miss Carlstrom's class. Students who have read for 28 days in the month of September will be able to come to our party. I will do a final folder check Thursday morning. Please send in a Rated G movie if you have one. Maybe even a Halloween video?? Thanks
Spirit day is Friday. This week's spirit day is to wear green for this month's Character Counts pillar, Respsibility.
Spelling
L. 5's words are plurals of vowel + y words. The list is in the spelling folder. Please keep the list in the folder. The test is Friday.
English
This week we will be doing an expository writing essay to learn how to write in paragraph form. Our papers will have an introduction, body, and conclusion. Each paragraph will be indented. Students were asked to bring in 3 favorite things in a brown paper bag that represents them. Students will be using these items to help create ideas for their paper.
Reading
We will continue working in our ISAT reading book. We have been ripping out the completed pages and saving them in our reading folder in our binders. There will be a short quiz on Thursday covering the concepts learned. Please review the pages in the reading folder to prepare for the quiz. We also will begin our first chapter book. Students will be reading the book, Hey, New Kid. We will read together in class. We also will be completing journal responses after each chapter. The first 6 chapter's responses we will do together. The rest of the chapters will be done on their own for a reading grade.
Science
We will begin our next unit in science on Health. Students will be learning about ways to stay healthy and how to make healthy choices. We will begin with lesson one that teaches us about the food guide pyramid and making good food choices.
Social Studies
We will finish up the hemipshere unit. The study guide went home today. It is in the social studies folder. The quiz will be on Friday. We will review the answers to the study guide on Thursday. Please review the sheets and the Map Essentials book to help prepare for the test.
Math
We began chapter 2 at the end of last week. We learned about fact families and estimating numbers by rounding to the nearest ten or hundred. This week students will be doing some problem solving with exact numbers vs. estimated numbers. We also will be adding two and three digit numbers. We will take a checkpoint at the end of the week for a grade. We won't begin mad minutes for multiplication until we begin chapter 3 on multiplication. However, this doesn't mean your child shouldn't start studying flashcards. Multiplication and division flash cards were on the supply list for third grade. They are to be used at home to study. I would begin by pulling all the cards that are multiplied by 2. When those facts have been mastered, pull all the cards that are multiplied by 3. Keep practicing the rest of the facts in this order.
