Friday, November 4, 2011

Week of November 7-11

Important Dates
*Box Top Winner Pizza Party Thursday 11/10
*No School Friday 11/11 Veterans' Day


Classroom Chatter
Parent/teacher conferences are scheduled for the last week of November. Most of you signed up for your conference on Curriculum Night. Today, your child came home with the confirmation sheet. Please confirm our appointment by filling out the bottom portion of the paper and return to school asap! Thanks!

Don't forget that we don't have school Friday for Veterans' Day. Thursday our class will enjoy a pizza party lunch! We turned in the most Box Tops for 3rd grade! Thank you so much for those that turned them in. This has been my 5th year in a row winning!!! ;) Please continue to collect box tops, pop tabs, soup labels, and Promenade Mall receipts!!!! Thanks in advance.

Spelling
This week in spelling we will take a break from our spelling lists and work on synonyms and antonyms. There will not be a packet of homework for "spelling" due this week, but there maybe a homework page the will come home a night or two to practice synonyms and antonyms.

English
We will continue with Unit 2 Nouns. This week we will focus our study on common and proper nouns, nouns in the subject, singular and plural nouns, nouns with -es, and special plural nouns.

Reading
We will begin a novel study. While reading our novels we will focus on story elements such as character, setting, plot, problem/resolution.

Science
This week we will continue our study on solids, liquids, and gases.

Social Studies
We will take a quiz on the History of DG on Thursday, 11/10. A study guide is in the SS folder. We also will continue our study of DG by learning about present day DG. This ties nicely into Chapter 12, Your Local Government, in our textbooks. We will be learning about both at the same time.

Mrs. Csorba's Math Class
We will take a mad minute on 6's, 7's and 8's. We also continue with chapter 3. This week we will be doing subtraction with regrouping of greater numbers. We are 1/2 though chapter 3 and the trimester is also coming to an end! That means we will be having a chapter test coming up as well as a cumulative trimester test on chapters 1-3. The CYP for lessons 6-9 will be Thursday, 11/10. The chapter 3 test will be Tuesday 11/15. The trimester test will be Friday 11/18. To review for the trimester test on chapters 1-3 practice the problems on the following pages: 64-66, 92-94, and 122-124.