Week of September 28 to October 2

Important Dates:

*9/29 Tuesday Magazine turn-in day

*10/1 Thursday Picture Day

*10/2 Friday Spelling Test

Classroom Chatter

We had a great time celebrating Johnny Appleseed's birthday on Friday. Thank you to those who sent in juice, bowls, and cups!

Spelling

Lesson 5's words are vowel + y words. We will take a pretest on Monday. The test will be Friday.

English

We will spend this week writing a narrative essay. Students will learn about indenting paragraphs and how to write a narrative with an introduction, body, and conclusion.

Reading

We will begin our first novel, How to Be Cool in Third Grade. We will be reading chapters in class and completing journal response questions.

Science

We will continue with our Matter unit. This week, we will learn about the three states of matter: solids, liquids, and gases.

Social Studies

Downers Grove and Chapter 12 will be our next unit. We will begin learning about the history of Downers Grove, present day Downers Grove and Local Government in Chapter 12 .

Math

This week we will continue with chapter two. Students will be adding and subtracting two and three digit numbers as well as greater than 3 digit numbers. We will be taking a checkpoint this week on Wednesday.

Week of September 21-25

*Magazine Turn-In Monday and Friday 9/21 & 9/25
*Vocabulary Quiz Monday 9/21
*Early Dismissal Tuesday 9/22
*English Test Wednesday 9/23
*Hemisphere Quiz Thursday 9/24
*Spelling Test Friday 9/25
*Reading Quiz on Friday 9/25
*Johnny Appleseed's Birthday 9/26 (celebrating 9/25)


Classroom Chatter
Thank you to everyone who have sent in Treasure Chest items! The kids and I really appreciate everyone's thoughtfulness and generosity. It makes the end of the day fun when I pick names for the Treasure Chest and the kids are excited about its contents!



Saturday is Johnny Appleseed's birthday. It is a tradition in 3rd grade that we honor this day. We will be celebrating on Friday, 9/25. Information about Friday's celebration will come home Monday of this week. Don't forget on Friday to send in an apple that has been peeled, cut, and cored so we can make homemade applesauce! Is anyone willing to send in 100% apple juice boxes or bowls? Please send me an email. I have spoons and napkins. Thanks in advance. We look forward to an "apple"solutely wonderful day!



On Monday, information about a program called, "Lunch in the Library" will be coming home. Mrs. Walsh-Rock is our librarian aide. She is starting a program where students can come to the IMC during their lunch time to talk about books while munching on lunch with other readers. Students will have an opportunity to hear about other books they might be interested in reading. If your child is interested, the first Lunch in the Library is Friday, 10/8. Please fill out the information sheet that will come home Monday and return to Mrs. Csorba by 10/1.


Don't forget Tuesday is early dismissal. Students will be dismissed at 11am! Enjoy the half day!


Spelling
No pretest this week due to the early dismissal. L. 4's words are spelled with -s or -es. The test will be Friday.


English
Unit One's test is scheduled for Wednesday 9/23. A study guide went home last week. It's in the english folder. Have you seen it? Encourage your child to bring their textbook home to study!



Reading
We will take a vocabulary quiz on Yunmi and Halmoni's Trip on Monday. We will continue working on predictions while reading a story called, South Pole Bound. We also will be doing some work in our Illinois Reading Workbooks. Lesson 1 is called Word Analysis. We will be talking about words that have prefixes, suffixes, words that sound the same, and compound words. We will rip out these pages and keep them in our reading folder to study. There will be a short quiz on Friday covering Lesson 1.


Science
We will begin our next unit in Science. Chapter 11 teaches us about the properties of matter. We will begin with lesson 1: What is Matter?



Social Studies
We will finish up our map skills unit with a quiz on hemispheres.



Math
We will begin chapter 2 this week. Chapter 2 teaches about adding and subtracting whole numbers and money. We will not start multiplication mad minutes until Ch. 3 Ch. 3 teaches multiplication. However, your child should start practicing and learning their multiplication facts. We will start with x0's and x1's. A multiplication packet of facts from x2-x12 went home on Friday to help with studying. You should also have flash cards at home.

Week of September 14-18

Important Dates:

*Vocabulary Quiz Monday 9/14

*Continents & Oceans Quiz Tuesday 9/15

*Science Test Wednesday 9/16

*Spelling Test Friday 9/18

Classroom Chatter

Mrs. Heckman, our school nurse, will be talking to the class on Monday regarding hygiene. We want to remember to encourage our children to constantly wash our hands with soap and water several times a day. Also, hand sanitizer is in the classroom for us to use as well.

Spelling

This week's words are spelled with -ou. We will take a pretest on Monday. The test will be Friday. You child's spelling list will come home Monday. It will be in the spelling folder.

English

We will finish up unit one, The Sentence this week by reviewing subjects and predicates. We will talk about run-on sentences. Next week, the test is scheduled for 9/23. A study guide will come home this week.

Reading

This week we will focus on our next reading strategy, predictions. We will begin predictions with a story called Yumni and Halmoni's Trip.

Science

We will take the Introductory to Science test on Wednesday. It is open book and open note. It will be graded. A study guide went home last week in the science folder. You also may view the science textbook online. Directions on how to view the text book and your log in and password went home Friday. It is a great tool we have. I hope you find it useful and fun!

Social Studies

Students will be working on an in-class project to end our study of the continents and oceans. We will then move our study to the hemispheres of the world. The quiz on Continents and Oceans is Tuesday.

Please visit the blog of your child's Math teacher to find out information for that Math class.

Math

This week we will finish up chapter 1 by taking a checkpoint on Wednesday. We will do some extra practice this week and play a review game on Thursday to prepare us for Friday's test. We also will be taking subtraction mad minutes this week. Ch. 1 test is Friday 9/18. There are some great extra practice pages in the text book. I encourage students to do the problems at home. Pages 32-35. Chapter One begins on page 2-31. There are problems in each lesson to do as well.

Week of September 7-11

Important Dates:

*No School Monday 9/7 Labor Day

*Scholastic Book Orders due Friday 9/11

*Bingo Night Friday 9/11

Classroom Chatter

We are off to a great start to 3rd grade. It was a pleasure seeing everyone at Curriculum Night last week. Thank you for coming. Thank you to the parents who donated items from Open House from our "Pitch in and Help" board. It is very much appreciated!

Scholastic book orders went home on Friday 9/4. I strongly encourage everyone to try to order online. It is so easy and safe! It helps me out too. Orders online or paper orders are due by Friday, Sept. 11.

Spelling

L. 2's words are spelled with oa. There isn't a pretest this week due to the shortened week. The test will be Friday.

English

We will continue with Unit 1 this week. Students will be learning what a subject and predicate is of a sentence. The subject tells us whom or what the sentence is about. The predicate tells us what is happening in the sentence. Please review subjects and predicates at home. This can be difficult for the students.

Reading

This week we will be reading a story called, The Garden of Abdul Gasazi by Chis Van Allsburg. Vocab words from this story will come home this week and a quiz on them will be next Monday. In addition to working on visualizations we will continue discussing the setting of the story, the characters, and the plot. Book report information went home on Friday 9/4. Your child has until 9/11 to choose a book for the book report and have it approved by me. Information about all the book reports is in the binder to be left at home. Keep it somewhere safe to refer to. Information about September/October's report is already in the reading folder. It is to be turned in with the project on 10/29. Also, in your child's reading folder is a large sheet of white construction paper to complete the project. Your child can remove this paper out of the folder and keep it at home until it is done.

Science

We will finish up our introductory unit to science this week with lesson 3, The Scientific Method. The following week, the students will be taking the test in class as an open note/open book. It will be graded. Since this is the first test, I will allow for open book and notes. I will send home a study guide next week.

Social Studies

We will spend this week continuing our map skills by learning about the continents and oceans of our world. We will have a quiz on the following Monday 9/14. Students will need to ID the continents and oceans. They will have a word bank.

Math

This week we will be working with numbers in the millions, finding patterns in numbers, rounding and problem solving using patterns and bar graphs. We also will be taking our first mad minute in addition facts on Monday. The students will need to answer 40 facts in 2 minutes.