Week of September 13-17

Important Dates:
*Magazine Kick-off Assembly Monday 9/13

*Continents & Oceans Quiz Tuesday 9/14

*Spelling Test Friday 9/17

*First Magazine Turn-in Friday 9/17

*English Test Friday 9/17

Classroom Chatter

*CALLING ALL BOX TOPS & TYSON A+ LABELS! We are collecting Box Tops and Tyson labels in hopes to win a pizza lunch party and extra recess. Please send in these items if you have them! The deadline is October 15th! (Mrs. Csorba's class has one the last 2 years in a row!)

Spelling

L. 3 focuses on more short vowels. The pretest is scheduled for Monday, 9/13. If a student gets a 90% or higher (two or less wrong) they will be in the challenge group and will not be required to take the final test. Students with three or more wrong on the pretest will take the final test Friday, 9/17.

Reading

This is an exciting week! Third grade will start switching for reading! We will be reading The Lost and Found by Mark Teague as we focus on the summarizing strategy and our sequencing skills.

English

We will finish up Unit 1-What is a Sentence by reviewing subjects and predicates. We will also learn what run-on sentences are. The test is scheduled for Friday 9/17. A study guide went home Friday 9/10. It is in the English folder. Have you seen it? The english text book came home this weekend to begin studying. Please send the textbook back to school Monday. Your child is welcome to take it home daily to study.

Science

We will being Chapter 4, lesson 2 this week. Lesson 2 teaches about what types of ecosystems.

Social Studies

We will finish Continents and Oceans on Tuesday with a quiz. We the will begin the last part of our map skills unit with hemispheres.

Math

We will take our first addition Mad Minute on Tuesday. Students will need to complete 40 addition problems in 2 minutes. We also will finish chapter with comparing money and problem solving. I plan to do another "Check Your Progress" at the end of the week for a grade. We will play a review game at the end of the week. I plan on testing on Chapter 1 the following week.
Friday, we played a great game on the computer to help practice counting back change. Check it out! FUN BRAIN CHANGE MAKER