Friday, April 15, 2011

Week of April 18-22

Important Dates:
*Early Dismissal Thursday 4/21
*No school Friday 4/22

Classroom Chatter
Our class has earned a marble party for good classroom behavior. Information about this special party will come home Monday!!!! Good job third graders!!!

Thanks for everyone who came to our Open House last week. It was great to see everyone!

Spelling
There is no spelling this week due to the shortened week.


Reading
We will continue with our poetry unit. We will continue to discuss stanza, rhythm, and rhyme while we work on our poetry projects in class. Students will be sharing their favorite poem from their project on Wednesday for a "Poetry Cafe" in our room!!

English
We will continue with expository writing. We also will be writing letters to 2nd graders.

Science
We will finish up magnets and electricity this week. The test is scheduled for Wednesday, 4/27. A study guide will come home this week in the science folder.

Social Studies
We will begin a new unit the following week. It is a unit on economy and we will use our textbooks.

Math
We will take a Check Your Progress on lessons 1-5 on Monday. We will learn about multiples and how to add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators. Thursday we will take a CYP on lessons 6-8. Friday, we will study probability. We will take a mad minute in division 9's this week.