Thursday, October 29, 2009

Week of November 2-6





Important Dates:
*Vocab quiz Monday 11/2
*Spelling test Friday 11/6


Classroom Chatter

3rd Grade Team Picture Class Picture

Thank you to Mrs. Scehovic, Mrs. Paskvan, Mrs. Pileggi, Mrs. Arce, and Mrs. Daniele for helping us decorate pumpkins at our Halloween Party. We had a spook-tacular time! Congrats to our very on Alyssa! She one 1st prize at the pumpkin decorating contest!


I hope everyone enjoys the day off tomorrow. Have a happy and safe Halloween!!!!

Check out this great website to carve your own pumpkin! http://www.cubpack81.com/images/carve_pumpkin.swf



Spelling
This week's words are from lesson 10. The end in a double consonant. We will take a pretest on Monday. The test will be Friday.

English
We will begin Unit 3 Verbs. This week we will learn about verbs, verbs in the present, and verbs in the past.

Reading
We will finish up Cliffhanger vocab quiz on Monday. We will also do an extended reading response on Cliffhanger. Students will also share their book reports with the class. Nice job! Information about November/December's book report will come home Monday.

Science
This week, our focus will be chapter 4 lesson 3-How Living Things Survive in Ecosystems. We will learn about adaptation, instincts, hibernation, migration, mimicry and camouflage.

Social Studies
We will continue with our study of Downers Grove. Next week is our field trip!

Math
We will finish up the first half of chapter 3 which teaches multiplication. We also will be taking a mad minute on x3's. We will begin the second part of chapter 3 next week and focus our studies on division.