Week of November 27

Calendar:

Friday, November 30: Spirit Day, Feed the Need
Thursday, December 6: Christmas Program 7:00 P.M.
Friday, December 7: Field trip to Nutcracker (see note below)

Homework:
Monday: Read, Study Multiplication facts, Study spelling
Tuesday: Read, Study Multiplication facts, Study spelling
Wednesday: Read, Study Multiplication facts, Study spelling
Thursday: Read, Study Multiplication facts, Study spelling
Friday: Have fun with family and friends

Spelling City - a way to study spelling words with the list words

http://www.spellingcity.com/Spedsthirdgrade/


Classnotes:

Reading - We will begin reading The Best Christmas Pageant Ever book this week.  This hilarious book is filled with wonderful vocabulary, characters, and plot development.

Math - Keep practicing those multiplication facts!!! We will start division this week.

Science -We continue to work on sound. We will do a couple sound experiments this week.

Language - The students have been working on an explanatory writing assignment in class.  We will ask each child to give a demonstration speech on their topic.  The speeches will start the week of December 10.  We will assign 4 or 5 students a day to give a speech so you will know exactly which day to have your child prepared.  A rubric will come home next week with the requirements. 

Social Studies - During this holiday season we will explore Christmas around the world.  Students will study one or more Christmas traditions from all over the world. 

Nutcracker Field Trip - We will go to the Nutcrack on Friday, December 7.  This is your notice that we will be going on a field trip.  The students will return to school after our lunch time so we will have lunch in our classrooms. We will not be able to get a hot lunch that day so if you want your child to have a sack lunch from school then please let Lisa or Gretchen know by Friday, November 30.  Otherwise, your child will need to bring a cold lunch that day.

Typing skills - In January the students will be typing their rainforest research paper.  Here are  typing games  for them to practice at home.  http://www.freetypinggame.net/play.asp
or http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/Typing_Games/


Spelling words:

1. surprise
2. guess
3. caught
4. favorite
5. kept
6. swimming
7. Tuesday
8. different
9. easy
10. picture
11. presents
12. fifth
13. through
14. Monday

Challenge Words:

1. answer
2. Hawaii
3. valuable
4. library

Super Challenge Word
compression