ISAT testing starts this week!!

For the next three weeks, Ellis Elementary will be involved in ISAT testing. This week the third grade will be tested on Language. Next week, we will test on Reading, and the last week is Math. NO SNOOZING during ISAT. Use all of the knowledge you have gained this year in doing the best job you can do.

• Calendar:
• **Monday, April 12th: Early Release: PLC

*Wednesday, April 14th: End of the fifth 6-week grading period. AR goals completed this day.

*Thursday, April 15th: Shore/Graham ISAT Language Testing

** Tuesday, April 13th: Individual Pictures
Do your best!!



Language:
This week our story is Pepita talks Twice. It is about a little girl who can speak two languages but doesn't always like to use her skills.

We will continue to work on using both singular and plural possessives as well as antonyms (opposites). All of these skills will be tested on the ISAT.

Spelling List:
summer
winter
October
travel
little
color
apple
able
November
ever
later
purple
flower
people
thermometer
mumble

In two weeks we take the Math ISAT. We finished multiplication and multiplication strategies. This past week we covered fractions, probability, and cubes. This week we will do other geomtric 3-D shapes and then start measurement. Next week, we will have a 3-day Math Olympics to review skills important for the ISAT test. These will be review of what we have already covered.

Science:
Also this week, we will start life cycles and living things in our Science Unit. Science is an ISAT tested skill in third grade. It is still very important to learn these different concepts and ideas, because Science will be tested in fifth grade.

Questions of the Week:
What is the top number of a fraction called? What is the bottom part of a fraction called? How many faces does a cube have?

AR Goal deadline April 14, 2010

Housekeeping:


Wednesday, April 7, 2010: PE week


Thursday, April 8, 2010: Rodeo Queens come to visit


Wednesday, April 14, 2010: End of the Fifth six weeks


Wednesday, April 14, 2010: AR Reading Goal Deadline


Thursday, April 15, 2010: ISAT's start for our class








Our story this week is a true exploring adventure. It is a story about the first expedition to cross the continent of Antarctica. The students will be able to view actual pictures from the expedition and watch a narrated film. The story is called Trapped by the Ice!

The Spelling list focuses on the VCCV pattern. Words with this pattern are divided between the two consonants:

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

Math:

We just took our multiplication test on 6, 7, and 8's. Wow!! The students did great!! We are so impressed you are understanding how to do it. Keep working on those facts. This week we will begin fractions and on Friday we will start Geometric shapes. Our Math ISAT is on Thursday, April 29th. We still need to cover measurement and review computation and rounding. We are going to do great. Keep up the wonderful work.

Social Studies:

The students will study about reasons foriegners come to the United States to live and start families. The students are also working on PowerPoint presentations of their experience in third grade this year.

**Question of the Week: When you find the median of a group of numbers, you need to put the numbers in order first. This was a question on our math test. Most students knew how to find the median--but forgot to put the numbers in order first. Let's try it for the question of the week.....here are the numbers. Remember put the numbers in order first!!!!!

2, 5, 6, 6, 1, 3, 4, 9, 2

Good Luck!!