Thursday, August 26, 2010

Week of August 30 - September 3

Important Dates:
3rd Grade Curriculum Night 8/31
Spelling Test Friday 9/3


Classroom Chatter
It has been a pleasure getting to know your child this week! Our busy week was filled with getting to know each other and our great school! We have a great class! I know we will have a wonderful year together!!!

My Blog: Each week, I will email you the link to check my blog. I will update what we are learning and upcoming important dates and events. You should also check your child's math teacher's blog. Please feel free to email me with any questions or comments about the blog. This a great way to keep open communication between school and home.

Curriculum Night: Third Grade curriculum night will be on Tuesday, August 31st at 6:30 pm. Please meet in the multipurpose/lunch room. This will be an informative night to learn more about third grade. Hope to see you there!

Introducing Miss Boyer: Miss Boyer, my student teacher, has joined our classroom from Eastern Illinois University where she is an Elementary Education major. She will be in our classroom until December. We are so happy to have her in our class!



Reading: This week we will start introducing the reading strategies that we will be utilizing throughout the rest of the year using picture books. The strategies are predicting, inferencing, visualizing, monitoring/clarifying, phonics/decoding, summarizing (fiction and non-fiction), questioning, connecting, and evaluating.


English: We will begin with Unit 1, which covers the four types of sentences. We will do daily work with various punctuation lessons as we work on our D.O.L. (Daily Oral Language).


Spelling: This week in spelling we will start with Lesson 1. These are "Back to School" words. We will pretest on Monday and pass out a homework packet due Friday. We will be taking one of the homework sheets for a grade. On Friday we will have our first test worth 20 points.


Social Studies: We will begin our maps unit. We will start with directions (north, east, south, west, NE, NW, SE, SW) and the compass rose.


Math-for Mrs. Csorba's math class only
This week we will begin chapter 1 Place Value. Students should review their addition and subtraction basic facts. We will have our first mad minute on addition facts the following week.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Welcome to Third Grade!


On Monday, August 23rd, please join us the District Open House. During the hours of 9-11 a.m. you can come visit our classroom, pick your desk, find your locker, drop off your supplies, and meet your teacher!

I look forward to meeting you!!!!