Week of December 12-16

Important Dates:

Monday 12/12 Bowling

Tuesday 12/13 Social Studies Test

Wednesday 12/14 Bowling Test

Thursday 12/15 Math test (Csorba's math class)

Friday 12/16 Spelling Test

Classroom Chatter

Don't forget we go bowling on Monday. It is encouraged for your child to bring a sack lunch since they might be too full to eat lunch after bowling. Students can bring $5 to buy a snack at the bowling alley.

A permission slip is coming home Monday for your child to watch Jim Carrey's, The Grinch. We are doing some Grinch related activities Friday to kick off winter break. Thank you to those parents who are bringing in treats for us on Friday!

Spelling
This week we will have Holiday words to study. Pretest and homework will go home Monday. The homework and test is due on Friday.

Reading

We will spend this week finishing up our novels we've been reading in our guided reading groups. While doing so, we will work on visualizing and evaluating the text.

Science

We will learn about the water cycle this week.

Social Studies

Thank you to Dr. Tiede for coming to talk to our class about being a community leader. We enjoyed your presentation!!! The test for Present Day DG and Chapter 12 (lessons 1 and 2 only) will be Tuesday. Study guide in the social studies folder. We will begin chapter 3, Culture, when we return from break.

Mrs. Csorba's Math class

Students will take a CYP on multiplication of larger numbers on Wednesday and the Ch. 4 test is Thursday. They also should start practicing x12's. They will test on these when we return from break. X11's are this week. We will spend Monday and Tuesday practicing multiplication.

December 5-9

Important Dates

*Spelling pretest Monday

*Spelling test Friday

*English test Friday

Classroom Chatter

First of all, thank you to all the parents that came in to meet with me at Parent Teacher Conferences. It was a pleasure sitting down with you to discuss your child and their progress in 3rd grade. Don't forget you can always email me or call me if you ever want to talk about any questions or concerns! jcsorba@ccsd66.org 630-783-5092. :)

Second...a special "visitor" arrived in our classroom today (Friday). Our elf will be with us the next 2 weeks, watching who is naughty and who is nice! I hope your child told you about his arrival today. They were SO EXCITED this morning. We still need to give him a name! Help your child brainstorm a good name for our special friend! ;)

Spelling

L.10's words are high frequency words. The pretest will be Monday. The homework packet will come home Monday. The homework and test are due on Friday.

English

We will finish up our Noun unit. The test is scheduled for Friday 12/9. A study guide is in the English folder.

Reading

Today (Friday) we had Mrs. Vanni come speak to the 3rd graders about quilting. It tied in so nicely with the story we just read, The Keeping Quilt. Ask your child about it!

This week we will be evaluating and visualizing while we read Dogzilla and our chapter books!

Science

We will begin our next unit of study on weather!

Social Studies

I am moving the Downers Grove test to 12/13. We are adding lessons 1 and 2 from chapter 12 in our social studies books which talk about local governments. Last week we learned how our local government provides us with the services of safety, transportation, recreation, and education. This week we will learn who our community leaders are. We are very excited for Dr. Tiede to come talk to our class this week. A Superintendent is a community leader. He will come talk to us Thursday!!!

Mrs. Csorba's Math Class

We will continue with multiplication of greater numbers. This week, we will be multiplying by 3 digit by 1 digit, multiplying with money, multiplying 4 digit by 1 digit, looking at patterns in multiplication and estimation with multiplication. The students will take a mad minute in x10's.

We are going to finish chapter 4 before winter break and will be testing on this chapter the week of the 12th. Date still to be determined. We have been playing a lot of games in math to help us practice our basic facts too. :)