Friday, April 13, 2012

Week of April 16-20

Important Dates:
*Spelling test Friday 4/20
*Friendly letter test Friday 4/20
*Earth day-wear green or Earth day shirts 4/20

Classroom Chatter
A big thank you to all of you that came to our Spring Open House last Thursday. I hope you enjoyed it! It was great seeing everyone!!! Hard to believe we are in our final stretch! Yikes!!!


On Monday, the third grade will listen to a nurse come talk to us about oral hygiene. Ask your child about it!

Spelling
L. 22 words end with -er or -le. The test will be on Friday. The homework is due Friday. We will pretest Monday.

Reading
We will continue with our poetry unit.

English
We will finish up with our friendly letter unit with a test on Friday. Students will have to identify the 5 parts of a friendly letter: heading, greeting, body, closing, and signature. They will also proofread a letter and make corrections. Your child will be bringing home an envelope on Monday. Please help them address it correctly and put a stamp on it.

Science
We will begin our next unit of study on chapter 14: heat, light, & sound.

Social Studies:
We will be continuing with Chicago. There will not be a part III test. I will take some pages in the packet for a grade.

Math
We are all done with mad minutes. Please continue to practice both multiplication and division facts. We will finish up chapter 11 with a CYP Thursday. This week we will be studying solid figures and volume. The test will be the following Tuesday 4/24.