Red Ribbon Week

THE KEEPING QUILT

Adam brought this apple to us from Oregon. It is one of the biggest apples we have ever seen. We will cut it up and give everybody a piece of it on Monday. Thanks Adam!!

Our BFG Party was a big hit. We had guest appearances from Sophie (aka Mrs. Shore) and the BFG (aka Mrs. Graham). We drank frobscottle, ate toast and butter, and made trogglehumps (dreams). It was a fun way to celebrate the ending of our Teacher Read Aloud Book. Next on the docket is George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl.

House Keeping:

It was a busy week last week with AR celebrations, guest readers, and the BFG Party. This week is the Red Ribbon Celebration: A Commitment to stay "Drug Free". These are the following dress-up days:

Monday: Pajama Day

Tuesday: Crazy Hair Day

Wednesday: Wear a Hat Day

Thursday: Crazy Sock Day

Friday: Wear All Red Day "Just Say No" to Drugs

Reading:

We are starting a new story: The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco. I is a story about family traditions and how these traditions are passed down from one generation to the next. Please continue reading with your child 20 minutes every evening and have them return their Reading Logs daily. We have set new AR goals for them for the next 6 weeks. At the end of this week they need to be at about 33% of their AR Goal. Let's get those X-wings moving across the wall!! The spelling words for this week concentrate on the long vowel sound /a/ and the long vowel sound /e/.

• neighbor
• speak
• weigh
• neighbor
• paint
• clay
• feel
• leave
• eight
• seem
• paid
• lay
• need

Math:

We are wrapping up the mini unit on Rectangles, Squares, Parallel Lines, and Perpendicular Lines. The students will be assessed on their knowledge on Monday. Then we will start into story problems for addition and subtraction. They will learn many new concepts and strategies to break up problems and look for information that is useful in solving the problem.

Social Studies:

We continue our study on communities, traditions, a community's history, and what makes a community go and grow. We are looking forward to beginning our Native American Unit in a few weeks. We will learn of several Native American groups from our past and their culture and ways of life. We will learn how to weave and make some small mats. We will also study picture graph illustrations and write our own messages using pictures.

Question of the Day?

How many times does your heart beat every day?

End of the First Six Weeks--What a great 6-weeks it was!

Isaac wrote an amazing personal narrative about and experience he had at Lava Hot Springs. I laughed and laughed. He had some great descriptive words and he even talked about a wedgie. Very great Isaac!!

Brianna is a terrific Math student. She recently scored 100% on several subtraction assignments. We have been ungrouping numbers and subtracting across zeroes. Way to go Brianna!





Housekeeping:

• End of the first 6-week grading period


• AR Goals should be completed by Friday, October 15, 2010


• New Goals will start Friday, October 18, 2010


• PLC Early Release on Monday, October 11, 2010

Language: The story of the week is Lost and Found by Mark Teague. This is one of the most beloved stories of the third grade classes. We hope you enjoy it!! We continue to work on skills such as adding -ed and -ing to base words. Antonymns (Opposites), and Homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently).

The students had marvelous Personal Narrative stories. Thank you for using juicy color words in your pieces. The class will begin to recopy the stories for our class book.

Spelling List:

smoke

huge

save

life

wide

come

mine

grade

smile

note

cube

love

Mathematics:

This week our young Padawans will wrap up Unit 1. We have been working on place values, addition and subtraction with more than 1 number. There will be a test this week on the concepts we have been working on. The next Unit will focus on lines and shapes.

Social Studies:

Last week (Wednesday), we started our Unit on Communities. What is a community? What makes up a community? Over the next 6 weeks, we will learn about communities and why we make laws. We will learn why it is necessary to have businesses and leadership. We will learn how to be a great citizen.

We hope you had a nice 2-day vacation. It was kind of rainy the whole time. Welcome to FALL!!

Question of the week: About how many times does your heart pump every day?

Short Week Ahead!!

Congratulations to our first three boys to reach their AR Goal:

Adam Jones

Kody Wright

Nathan Carter

They all reached their goal of 100% on the same day. Way to go boys! You are amazing. Keep reading.

We have two stories of Focus this week:

1) Radio Rescue

2)Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride

Our third grade class will be reviewing skills we have been working on for the past several weeks. Here are some of them:

1) Adding -ed and -ing to base words. Don't forget to double the consonant after a short vowel sound.

2) Identifying a complete sentence.

3) Recognizing different kinds of sentences (exclamative, interrogative, declarative, command).

4) Dividing words up into different syllables.

The spelling words for this week are as follows:

1) drum

2) huge

3) last

4) drop

5) class

6) left

7) wide

8) mix

9) send

10) save

11) smell

12) stick

13) note

14) thick

15) hunt

16) thin

17) grade

18) lot

19) cube

20) pond

21) life

22) sock

23) luck

24) shut

25) smile

Today (Friday, October 1, 2010, our personal narrative stories are due. I have already graded the early bird papers. Fine Job-I say. Hope to read all the rest of them this weekend.

Math:

We are almost finished with UNIT 1. We have learned to add with multi-digits. We have discovered the beauty of adding using different methods. We have polished the art of regrouping. We have FABULOUS SKILLS. We have learned to subtract with ungrouping and subtract over zeros. Keep practicing these skills at home. Our test will be the following week. We will test on the skills we have covered thus far.

Science:

Discussion on the Moon, Earth, and Sun is almost over. We have three days left to wrap up this Unit. Stay focused...and stay tuned for Social Studies - a study about communities.

House Keeping:

Next Week is a short week. We have school on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday

Monday, October 4th is a 1-hour early release.

Tuesday, October 5th: Hearing Screening

Question of the Week:

What mammal/carnivore, is the largest? (Hint: He loves to eat seals)