Friday, January 21, 2011

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.