September 28-October 2

Calendar:

Wednesday, September 30: Science Test over Plant Unit. A study guide was sent home last week.

Thursday, October 1, 1:00 Author Visit. Paul Zelinsky comes to speak with 1st-3rd grades.

Friday, October 2, Spelling Test and Wordly Wise Test

Friday, October 2, 8:30 Pet Blessing on soccer field.

Friday, October 2, 3:30-6 Family Fun Fest(rescheduled)

Tuesday, October 6, 7:30-8:00 Math Help Session in Miss Stark's Classroom
Wednesday, October 7 Field Trip to Mahaffie Farm. Depart school at 8:50 and return to school at 2:30. Don't forget to bring a lunch.

Homework:

Monday: Read,study math facts, addition and subtraction, study for Science Test.

Tuesday: Read,study math facts, addition and subtraction, study for Science Test.

Wednesday: Read,study math facts, addition and subtraction.

Thursday: Read,study math facts, addition and subtraction.

Friday: Enjoy your weekend with family and friends. 

Class News:

Reading and Social Studies:

Students are fully immersed into the Lewis and Clark journey!  Each day we are reading a new chapter from our book In Their Own Words, Lewis and Clark. Students are working on comprehension, vocabulary, and have begun to create their own Lewis and Clark journal of animals and plant life that the explorers discovered on their way.  Students will begin work on creating their own version of the “peace medal” that was given to the Native Americans from Lewis and Clark and will also complete a webquest on Lewis and Clark using the iPads. 

Language Arts:

Students are busy writing their personal narratives this week. They will also learn how to combine sentences. In Grammar we continue learning the jingles and classifying/diagraming sentences. Students should now be able to identify the subject, verb, adverbs, adjectives, article adjectives, complete subject, and complete predicate in addition to knowing the four types of sentences!

Math:

This week in math students are working on addition with regrouping with 4-5 digit numbers.  Students will practice adding multiple addends with 5-6 digit sums.  Students will be given an Addition and Subtraction Challenge packet to work on during math and free time throughout the day.  I ask parents to talk with their child about this packet and encourage them to use any free time they might have on this challenge work.  This packet will be available for parents to see at Parent Teacher Conferences.  This week we are also working on graphing information from the Lewis and Clark exploration.  We will be looking at Lewis and Clark in numbers and organizing that information into a data set.

**Next week I will begin working with students every Tuesday morning from 7:30-8:00 on math skills.  This is a refresher, a help session, a reteaching of concepts they do not understand.  This 30 minute time block will be for students that want a little extra help one on one. 

Science:

This week we will finish our Plant Unit with a test on Wednesday. We are also using an excellent Kids Discover App on plants on the ipads.

Our next unit is Sound, and we will begin that on Thursday.

Ask your student about the celery growing in the classroom, and hopefully we will soon have basil too.

Spelling Words:
ambition
auction
coast
current
frail
intelligent
novel
resident
starve
volunteer

http://www.wordlywise3000.com/
(See Wordly Wise #3)

https://www.spellingcity.com/Spedsthirdgrade/

https://quizlet.com/25134112/wordly-wise-book-3-lesson-3-flash-cards/