Week of January 31-February 4

Important Dates:

*Matter Test Tuesday 2/1

*Matter in-class field trip Wed. 2/2

*Spelling Test Friday 2/4

Classroom Chatter

We are excited for the scientists from High-Touch High-Tech to come to our classroom for Matter Matters presentation. Ask your child about it! They come on Wednesday!

Spelling: This week we will focus on List 15: vowel plus r sounds. The homework will be sent home Monday and due Friday. The graded test will be on Friday.

Reading: We will continue working on all of our reading strategies, especially identifying main ideas and details as we use various reading materials (novels, short stories, and leveled readers). We will also be working on writing extended responses to texts.

English:

We began Unit 5 Capitalization and Punctuation last week. This week we will learn about abbreviations, book titles, introductory words, commas in a series, and practice writing good

sentences.

Science

We will finish up Matter with a test on Tuesday. The in-class field trip is Wednesday on Matter Matters.

Social Studies

We will continue our study of Ancient Egypt! We are reading a non-fiction book called Eye on Ancient Egypt. Ask your child about it and what they've learned about the pyramids, pharoahs, and the after life! Oh MY!

Math

We will take a mad minute in mix this week. We also will continue with our geometry unit. This week we will study polygons, quadrilaterals, and triangles. I tentatively have the test planned for Friday, 2/11. Also, information about the Geometry project will come home the following week!!

Week of January 24-28

Important Dates:

*Friendly Letter Test Tuesday 1/25

*District Spelling Bee Tuesday 1/25

*Spelling Test Friday 1/28

Classroom Chatter

I'd like to give a big congratulations to Maks for winning our 3rd grade spelling bee! He advances onto the District Spelling Bee this week on Tuesday! Good luck Maks!!!

Matter Presentation: We will have an in school "field trip" about matter on Wed. 2/2 about matter. The cost of the presentation will be covered with the money from last years canceled field trip (when your child was in 2nd grade).

*Reading: We will continue to work on our novels as we practice the strategy of making connections.

*Spelling: This week we will focus on List 14: homophones. The homework will be sent home Monday and due Friday. The graded test will be on Friday.

*English: The test on Friendly Letters will be Tuesday. We then will begin Unit 5 on capitalization and punctuation.

*Science: We will finish up matter with lesson three: How matter changes. The test is scheduled for Tuesday 2/1. A study guide will come home Monday to help prepare. This will be our first test in science we will take this year.

*Social Studies:

We will begin a study of Ancient Egypt!

*Math:

We will take a mad minute in x12. We will begin chapter 10 on geometry.

Week of January 17-21

Important Dates:

*No school Monday 1/17 Martin Luther King

*Culture Day Thursday 1/20

*Friendly Letter Test Friday 1/21

*Spelling Test Friday 1/21

*Book Orders due Friday 1/21

Classroom Chatter

Scholastic Book orders went home on Friday. They are due 1/21. Info about online ordering was attached to the packet! Thanks in advance for your orders!

Spelling

We are back to our normal spelling routine next week with Lesson #13. We will pretest on Tuesday and assign the corresponding homework. The spelling challenge students will only have to pick two assignments from the list and all other spelling students will have a shortened assignment as well due to the 4 day week. The homework will be due on Friday and we will have the test that day also!

Reading

As we begin/continue our novel studies this week we will be targeting the reading strategy of questioning. As always, we will also continue to review and refine our work with the other strategies that we have already introduced, but will highlight questioning this week.

English: We will finish up our Friendly Letter unit with writing a friendly letter to someone. You child will come home with an envelope this week (probably Thursday). It will just need a stamp. We will mail our letters at the end of this week.

Science: This week we will learn about solids, liguids, and gases in chapter 11 lesson 2.

Social Studies

We will wrap up Chapter 3 with Culture Day on Thursday, 1/20. We look forward to learning more about our classmates!!

Math

We will take a mad minute in x11 this week. We will have a test on chapter 7: Statistics and Probability on Thursday 1/21.

Week of January 10-14

*English Test Tues. 1/11

*MAPS testing 1/11 and 11/14

*Juggling assembly 1/12

Classroom Chatter

Spelling Bee: Before winter break, a word list was sent home with your child to help them prepare for the spelling bee. We will have a "practice" bee on Tuesday and our classroom spelling bee will be on Friday. The top 2 spellers will advance to the grade level bee, which will take place on Wed. 1/19. The top 2 spellers in the third grade will then move onto the district wide spelling bee which will take place the week of 1/24.

Our school earned a PBIS assembly for good hallway behavior. On Wednesday, we will have an assembly with a juggler!!! Ask your child about it!

This week our class will be taking a MAPS test in reading and math on Tuesday and Friday. There will not be math and reading on those days.

*Reading: We will continue to work on the reading strategies of monitoring and clarifying what we read as well as distinguishing facts and opinions while concluding our work with the story Nights of the Pufflings or starting a novel study. We will also be reviewing various other reading strategies to comprehend our reading materials.

*Spelling: Due to MAPs testing this week, we are working on synonym practice during spelling. We will not have a test this week or spelling homework. We will be working on a unit of "snowy synonyms". We will be back to working on Lesson #13 the following week.

English

We will take the test on adjectives and adverbs on Tuesday, 1/11. A study guide went home in the English folder last week. We will then begin a unit on Friendly Letter writing.

Science

We will continue learning about matter. This week we will learn about solids, liquids, and gases.

Social Studies

We will finish up Chapter 3 with lesson 4: A New Life in America. Our culture day will be on Thursday 1/20. Information about Culture Day came home this week. Please let me know if you have any questions! We look forward to a fun day learning about each other! I enjoyed reading everyone's idea sheets!

Math

We will continue with chapter 7. We are taking mad minutes in x10 this week. We will be finished soon. I tentatively have the test scheduled for Thursday, 1/20.