Congratulations!! Sarah Nield!! She was our very first student to reach 100% of her AR reading goal. Way to go young Padawan.

House Keeping:

Parents, be on the lookout for your child's personal narrative story. It is due (polished and perfected) on Friday, October 1, 2010. This is the story we will be doing for our classroom adventure book.

AR goal deadline is Friday, October 14, 2010.

Reading/Language Arts:

Our story anthology this week is the folktale: Ballad of Mulan

Students will be able to recognize sentences that are incomplete and complete.

Students are working on adding the endings -ed and -ing to base words with the cvc pattern (nap). Don't forget to double that consonant after the short vowel sound (napping). This is a great story. The students will also be creating some Chinese symbols and characters for their memory books.

Spelling List:

pond luck drop lot rub does drum sock hunt crop shut won

These are words with a short vowel sound in the middle. The word does is an irregular word.

Math:

The students will continue adding multi-digit numbers using addition strategies. This week we will introduce subtraction. Keep working on those strategies. It will help you so much as we progress through the next section.

Science:

I love science. Room One has almost completed the section on space. We will focus on what makes tides in the ocean and why Earth has different seasons. Thanks for being such great readers as we read through some of the information.

Continue reading at home and don't forget to get those reading logs signed. Remember--you need to be at 100% of your goal by Friday, October 14th!! Read On Young Padawans!!!

Question of the Week:

What are the colors in the rainbow?? (In order please)

Reading/Writing Workshop

We hope you had a great weekend. We are excited about this week because it is our first
Reading/Writing Workshop. The entire class will be working on a personal narrative
story. This is something that really happened to you. All students will work on creating
and writing their piece this week and then we will send it home to be polished and published.
The entire writing will be due on Friday, October 1, 2010. All instructions will be included
in the writing folder. Thanks for all your help in getting these writings "publishing ready".
Each student will re-write their piece and include a drawing for our class book. Please
let us know if you are interested in ordering a class book.

Housekeeping:

IRI is over. We did really good--but there is plenty of room for improvement. We would like to see growth for all of our students this school year.

Monday, September 20, 2010: 1-hour early release.

Book orders should be here in about 2 weeks. A new order will come home this week.

Spelling list for this week:

have

haven't

found

around

one

than

then

them

before

because

other

mother

Challenge Words: family, cousin, everybody, guess

The spelling test will be given Friday 24, 2010. This is also are library day--so don't forget to bring your library books back.

All students should be at 60% of their reading goals this week. Keep reading every night and don't forget to bring back your reading logs every day!!

Math:

The students in third grade have been learning four different ways to add multi-digit numbers:

1) Proof drawings

2) Show All groups

3) New groups above

4) New groups below

This week we will continue to use these methods as we practice addition with money amounts and also continue to practice multi-digit addition.

Science:

We are moving from the study of the Moon to the study of the Sun and also how the earth rotates.

Science is a great subject and we try to integrate science experiments and activities when we have time to do so.

Question of the Week??

What is the largest U.S. state?

What is the smallest U.S. state?

Hello young padawans!! We are starting our first Reading Anthology Story this week. It is called "Cliff Hanger" by Jean Craighead George. We will be concentrating on Cause and Effect and identifying complete and incomplete sentences.

AR reading goals have been assigned. Your child can start testing immediately on books they have read.

CONGRATULATIONS KAIAH ANDERSON FOR READING THE MOST BOOKS THIS SUMMER!!

If anyone else tracked how many books they read this summer--please bring a record of them to Master Shore or Master Graham.

WAY TO GO KAIAH!!!

The spelling words concentrate on the short vowel sounds (e), (i), and (a). The words for this week are:

milk

mix

smell

last

head

friend

class

left

thick

send

thin

stick

Math: Look for the first Homework Assignment coming home this Monday. It is a review of some of the things we have been covering. We are working on our Math Boards learning new ways to identify place values through the thousands. Ask your child to show you a thousand bar, a hundred square, a ten stick, or a one circle.

Science: The students have been exploring the Moon, atmosphere and the Sun. This week we will

read and discuss the Moon's rotations. We will discuss attributes of the Sun and how space scientists are able to study the Sun.

Housekeeping:

Monday, Septemeber 13th: PLC Day--One hour early release.

Wednesday, September 15th at 9:30 AM--Strings presentation for the 3rd, 4th and 5th grade.

Thursday, September 16th: IRI begins for the third grade. Please make sure your child gets a lot

of sleep and a good breakfast.

Friday, September 17th: Book Orders are due!!