Ellis Night at Texas Roadhouse This Monday (March 16th)

Mrs. Fehringer (our ISU 309 student) is starting her teaching sequence this week. We are concentrating on the story Across the Wide Dark Sea. She is already off to a great start with the students with her introductory cooperative group activity. The kids had a lot of fun learning about different countries and interesting places around the world.

Spelling Words for this week will concentrate on the /oo/sound found in tooth, and the /oo/ sound found in cook:
tooth
chew
grew
cook
shoe
blue
boot
flew
shook
balloon
drew
spon
good
soon
loose
brook

In math we are concentrating on probability using coins, spinners, and color wheels. This is a quick chapter with an assessment coming up at the end of the week. Keep working on your multiplication facts....we are almost there!!

In Science we will continue discussing and reading about earth's natural resources. Our trip to the Pocatello Water Department was very successful. The students learned many different ways to recycle and reuse. Just ask them about those scary spiders!!

Events coming up...
Ellis Night at Texas Roadhouse (March 16, 2009)
Mrs. Graham's Birthday (March 17, 2009)
Spring Break (starting next week!!)

Congratulations to all cub scouts who participated in a Pine Wood Derby over the past week or will be participating this week. Go Scouts Go!!

Question of the Week:
What was the name of the famous explorer who traveled to Antarctica and got trapped by the ice?

Who is the current leader in the Iditarod race?

We Won!!

Mrs. Shore/Graham's class won the best attendance for the month of February. We will be receiving Happy Meals from McDonalds on Monday, March 9, 2009.

Thank you to all the parents for attending conferences. We had 100% conference attendees.

The Iditarod race started on Saturday. We will choose mushers Monday morning before we leave on our Field Trip to The Pocatello Water Department. We have a busy day on Monday.

The end of the Fifth Six week grading period in April 17th. We already have the first boy and girl in our class reach their AR goal. Congratulations to Donald Rowberry and Joselle Newton.

The reading anthology we will be discussing and reviewing this week is Trapped by the Ice by Michael McCurdy. The spelling list will concentrate on words with the VCCV pattern; they are as follows:

Monday
sudden
until
forget
happen
follow
dollar
window
hello
market
pretty
order
after
stubborn
funny
expect

In math we are taking our Chapter Test on "Reading from graphs and tables". We will start probability on Tuesday.

Everyone has an assignment to create a 3D model of the Water Cycle. This ties in well with our current science curriculum as are learning about Earth's natural resources.

Keep reading and working on your basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication facts. When you are fluent in your facts, you will do much better in your fourth grade math class.

Questions of the Week:
What is a biography? How many slaves did Harriet Tubman help lead to freedom? How many passengers did she lose?

Is that Captain Jack??

We had a special visitor in our classroom on Friday. Since we are the Third Grade Pirates, we decided to ask the most famous Pirate of all to come and sign autographs in our room. Thank you Captain Jack for making a timely appearance.

Congratulations to our top five students with the most improved Reading Fluency: Taylor Sanchez, Donald Rowberry, Aubrie Nield, Kymball Ellis, and Cody Herrera. Keep up the good work Pirates!

This week is another short one. Parent Teacher Conferences begin Wednesday after school and will continue all day Thursday and into the evening.

READING:

Because this is a short week, we are doing a Genre study in our Reading Series. We are studying about biographies and will be concentrating on Babe Didrikson, Bessie Coleman and Bill Melendez. A biography is a true story about a person who lived in the past or is living now. A biography includes important information about the person who is the subject of the biography. A biography usually begins with the early years of a person's life and then moves on to later years. The students will be creating their own short biography during a reading center. Are target goal for this week is suffixes: dropping the i and adding the appropriate ending to a base word.

MATH:

One more week of reading, interpruting data, and graphing the information. We also continue to review multiplication facts for our Fun Math Multiplication Facts booklet.

Science:

The students are concentrating on Earth's resources and learning how to be more conscience about preserving earth's rescources.

Question of the Week:

What is the mode,median, and range of the following numbers?

1, 6, 1, 4, 5, 1, 7, 9, 12, 1, 13

Remember, you have to order the numbers from least to greatest before you can find the median and the mode.

See you at conferences.