Week of October 3-7

Important Dates:

*Spelling pretest Monday 10/3

*Spelling test Friday 10/7

Classroom Chatter:

Thank you to everyone who participated in the magazine drive!!!!!!

Spelling:

L. 5 words are more long vowel words. There will be a pretest Monday. The test and homework will be due on Friday.

Reading

We will focus on the reading strategy inferencing. The students will use basal reading stories, supplemental short stories, and possibly novels to extend their practice of understanding what they read. Students will learn new vocabulary words from stories they are reading. We will also continue to work on an extended response where we use ideas from the text combined with our own ideas to answer a question.

English

We will begin our first writing unit and learn how to write a 5 paragraph paper. You child will be bringing home a "Me Bag" on Monday to help with this assignment. It is a brown paper bag that they will have to fill with 3 things that help describe them. For example in Mrs. Csorba's Me Bag you will find a golf ball, a book, and a camera. :)

Science

We will finish up with chapter 4 lesson 4 and learn how ecosystems can change.

Social Studies

We will have a quiz on Hemispheres on Wednesday. The study guide is in the social studies folder.

Mrs. Csorba's Math:

We will begin multiplication mad minutes on Monday. Students will be quizzed on the "squares" with 50 problems. They will have 3 minutes. They will have Wednesday and Friday to also "pass" the test if need be. We also began chapter 2 on Friday. Chapter 2 teaches about addition and subtraction concepts. There will be a Check Your Progress on Thursday covering material from lessons 1-5. They will be allowed to use their "notes" and textbook. It will be 20 multiple choice questions.

Week of September 26-30

Important Dates:

*Johnny Appleseed's birthday Monday 9/26

*Spelling pretest Monday 9/26

*Magazine Turn In 9/27, 9/29

*Picture Day Thursday 9/29

*English test Thursday 9/29

*Spelling test Friday 9/30

Classroom Chatter

Don't forget Monday is Johnny Appleseed's birthday. A note went home last week about how we will celebrate Johnny's pioneer life! Please send in an apple that is peeled, cut, and cored! We will use it to make homemade applesauce! Thanks to Kyle, Gia, and Noah for sending in the supplies we need! ;)

Don't forget to bring your picture day money and your best smile :) on Thursday for Picture Day!

Spelling

L. 5's words are spelled with short and long vowels. There will be a pretest Monday. The test and homework will be due on Friday.

Reading

We will continue to highlight summarizing and sequencing using materials differentiated for our classroom's various reading levels, and will be extending our knowledge through written responses. We will also assess on their ability to sequence events from text.

English

We will finish up Unit One: What is a Sentence with a test on Thursday 9/29. A study guide is in the English folder. I will send home your child's English textbook to help with studying.

Science

We will continue with chapter 4. This week we will look at lesson 3 and how living things survive in an ecosystem.

Social Studies

We will spend the week learning about the hemispheres of our world.

Mrs. Csorba's Math Class

We will take a CYP on Monday on lessons 6-10. We will play a review game on Tuesday. Wednesday we will take a test on chapter 1. A study guide is in the math folder and went home last week. Use it as a guide to find practice problems to study for. We will start multiplication mad minutes next week (week of October 3). A letter about this will come home on Monday.

Our next unit of study will be Chapter 2, Addition and Subtraction Concepts.

Week of September 19-23

Important Dates:

*Spelling Pretest Monday 9/19

*Continents and Oceans Quiz Thursday 9/22

*Spelling Test Friday 9/23

*Magazine Turn In dates 9/27, 9/29

Classroom Chatter

Thank you to the many of you the ordered Scholastic books! I will send them home with your child as soon as they arrive! Book orders for October will come home in the beginning of the month. I usually send order forms home every month!

Spelling

Lesson 4's words are spelled with a vowel-consonant e pattern. There will be a pretest Monday and the test on Friday. Homework will be due on Friday.

Reading

Now we will start to put the reading strategies we have learned to great use while reading various types of literature. We will always be reviewing/using all of the strategies, but for the coming weeks we will highly focus on the strategies of sequencing and summarizing. The students will use basal reading stories, supplemental short stories, and possibly novels to extend their practice of understanding what they read. As a third grade we are really highlighting oral and written responses to what was read and will integrate this throughout.

English

We will continue with unit 1. We will continue practicing finding the subject of the sentence. We also will work on locating the predicate of the sentence. Check out this song, Mr. Morton, that we sang to help us learn about the subject and predicate of the sentence. Click HERE.

Science

This week we will study lesson 2, What Are Some Types of Ecosystems.

Social Studies

We will take a quiz on the 7 continents and 5 oceans on Thursday. A study guide is in the social studies folder. Your child does not need to know how to spell the names. There will be a word bank. They will be expected to spell them correctly since there is a word bank for them to use. Click HERE to play the Continents Song we sang in class! ;)

Mrs. Csorba's Math Class

We will take a mad minute in subtraction. Students will need to answer 40 subtraction problems in 2 minutes time. We will also spend this week finish up chapter 1. I plan on giving the 2nd CYP next Monday, 9/26. We will play a review game on 9/27. The test for Chapter 1 will be Wednesday 9/28.

September 12-16

Important Dates:

*Magazine Kick-off Monday 9/12

*Spelling Pretest Monday 9/12

*Spelling Test Friday 9/16

*Book orders due Friday 9/16

Classroom Chatter

Scholastic book order forms will come home today (Friday). The due date is Friday, 9/16. Attached to the orders will be a pink information sheet on how to order books online. (We get a free book for the classroom every time a parent places and order online AND it is so much easier for me to place orders!) I strongly encourage you to try online ordering. It is safe and secure. Please know you may still send a check and the paper order to school with your child in an envelope as well and I will enter the orders online! Thanks in advance for your orders! Great books to buy for 20 minutes of reading!

Spelling

L. 3 words are short vowel words. Pretest Monday. The test is Friday. Homework will be due Friday.

English

We will learn about subjects and predicates.

Reading

Next week we will continue to teach the students how to utilize the essential reading strategies. In our classes we will demonstrate how the application of these strategies will maximize student comprehension of a range of literary materials.

Science

We spent last week getting to know our text book with some "textbook mapping" activities. This week, we will begin chapter 4, lesson 1 on ecosystems.

Social Studies

We will continue our study of map skills and learn about the continents and oceans of our world!

Mrs. Csorba's Math Class:

TUESDAY (no math Monday due to Magazine Kick off Assembly) we will take our first mad minute (aka timed test) in addition facts. Students will have 2 minutes to answer 40 basic math facts. If they do not earn 100%, they will have Wednesday and Friday to try again. We also will be taking our first "Check Your Progress" on Tuesday. (I know it says "Monday" in assignment books. I forgot about No Math on Monday). These CYP's are graded assignments. Students are allowed and encouraged to use their "notes" we took in their journals and math text books. For this 1st CYP, I will "guide" them and show them how to look at their textbook and notes for help, if needed. They are usually 20 questions. Please review lessons 1, 3, and 4 (pages 36, 40, and 42) if your child wants to prepare. The problems on the CYP look like the practice problems in the textbook or the workbook pages. Remember there are no retakes on graded work.

We will spend the rest of the week continuing in chapter 1 working with numbers.

Week of September 5-9

Important Dates

*Mon. 9/5: No School: Labor Day

* Tues. 9/6: Spelling: Pretest List 2

* Thurs. 9/8: MAPS testing: Reading

*Fri. 9/9: Spelling: List 2 Test

Social Studies: Directions Quiz

Classroom Chatter

*Curriculum Night: It was so great to see so many of you at Thursday night's Curriculum Night. Thank you for sharing your night with us as we went over 3rd grade with you. If were unable to come, I sent any notes home with your child today. I will also sign you up for a conference time and notify you of that date as is gets closer. If it does not work for you, we can reschedule. Thank you!

*Donations: If you took a baseball off of our "Can You Pitch in and Help" board at open house or curriculum night, thank you for your donations. You can send in your chosen item at any time. Thank you for "pitching in and helping!"

*A calendar came home Friday (and if you came to Curriculum Night, you received a September calendar). Please initial 20 days that your child reads in the month of September. This is worth 10 points in reading. You may turn it in as soon as 20 days of reading for 20 minutes is complete. The due date will be Monday, Oct. 3.

Our Week:

*Reading: The third grade starts off our reading curriculum by teaching the students to use various reading strategies. We model the use of these strategies while reading high interest picture books to the class. We then will spend the year extending the use of these strategies while reading a variety of literary materials to aid in comprehension. This coming week, we will learn about predicting, inferring, and visualizing.

*English: We will focus on ch 1, The Sentence. We will study the four types of sentences this week. They are statement, question, exclamation, and command.

*Spelling: We will work on list 2: short vowel words. There will be a pretest on Tuesday and the test will be on Friday. Due to the shortened week, your child will have 2 homework assignments due Friday.

*Social Studies: We will continue to work on map skills as we focus on cardinal and intermediate directions and the compass rose. We will have a short quiz on these skills on Friday 9/9. Look for a study guide coming home on Tuesday.

*Science: We will begin our science unit on ecosystems soon! This is chapter 4 in the textbook.

Mrs. Csorba's Math Class

A "Math News" blue piece of paper came home Friday. Please review the responsibilities with your child (we did go over them in class today). Both parent and child are to sign the sheet and return to school on Tuesday. Don't forget to cover your math textbook!

This week in math we will begin chapter 1, Place Value. Students will also be starting an addition "mad minute" timed test. They will need to answer 40 addition problems in 2 minutes time.