WOW!! On the Reading ISAT

Congratulations to all of the students who completed the Reading ISAT testing. We will conclude this week with our Math ISAT on Thursday, April 28, 2011. Also a BIG THANK YOU to those parents who have brought in snacks for the testing. This gives our brains a big boost. There was a lot of reading on the ISAT this week. Way to go students!!! Thank you also for coming out to Parent Teacher Conferences. We had a wonderful turnout and the students loves sharing their slide shows with you.

Upcoming Schedule:

• Wednesday, April 20, 2011: Last 6-week grading period begins


• Thursday, April 28, 2011: Math ISAT test


• Wednesday, May 3, 2011: Sping IRI testing window


• Tuesday, May 10, 2011: ISU Children's Choir Performance


• Wednesday, May 11, 2011: Yo-Yo Assembly


• Friday, May 13, 2011: Individual Third Grade Class Talent Show

Language Arts: Poppa's New Pants

Everyone wear something plaid this week. We are going to read a great story!!

The spelling list concentrates on words that begin with the first syllable /a/ or /be/:

began

again

around

before

away

about

alive

ahead

because

between

behind

ago

Math:

This is it......this is it.....The last ISAT is this Thursday. We feel our students are so prepared for the Math portion of the ISAT testing. We work on it so hard all year long. And we have some amazing Math students in our class. This next week will be a review week for many important curricular areas in math. After ISAT we will review addition/subtraction, rounding, regrouping, multiplication, and measurements.

Science:

Our last Unit of Study will be The Amazon Rain Forest and Life Cycles of Living Things. These last two subjects are two of the most memorable activities we do in the 3rd grade.

Questions of the Week for anyone who wants to post their answer:

How many teeth does an Adult have (if all of their teeth were there?)

What is the order of Math Operations we learned in class?

LANGUAGE ISATS........AWESOME SCORES!!

Just to let you know, our class did great on the Language ISATs. Our percent proficiency was very high. Thanks for being great students and great parents. We have two more ISATs to go and then the IRI.

Dates to remember:

April 19th-29th: Parent request for teachers are available in the office

Tuesday, April 19, 2011: End of Fifth 6-Week grading period

Ongoing popcorn fundraiser

Thursday, April 21, 2011: Reading ISAT

Thursday, April 21, 2011: 5:30-7:30 Parent Teacher Conference Open House

Friday, April 22, 2011: Earth day field clean-up as a school

Thursday, April 28, 2011: Math ISAT test

Wednesday, May 4, 2011: IRI

Friday, May 13, 2011: Individual class Talent Show

Our Literature Selection of study this week is Pepita Talks Twice.

We are excited to have a new student in our class who used to live in Mexico when she was a little girl. It will be great to have her help us with some of the Spanish Words in the story. She speaks Spanish very well.

Spelling list focuses on words ending with /er/ or words ending with /le/

summer

winter

little

October

travel

color

apple

able

November

ever

later

purple

Math:

We are finishing our Unit on customary and metric lengths and measurements. We will finish the this Wednesday. We will then start reviewing for the Math ISAT test. These are some really great things to be working on at home:

rounding

subtraction over zero

multiplication

basic addition and subtraction

associative property

commutative property

customary lengths and measurements

multiplication

subtraction over zeros

subtraction and addition with

regrouping

money

time

***Did I mention subtraction over zeros and multiplication???????

Science:

This week will also conclude our study of health and nutrition. We will end the year learning about life cycles and even grow butterflies in our classroom from a kit.

Have a lovely week!! (Exclamatory sentence)

Questions of the week:

Why was Jay Berry finally able to catch the monkeys in Summer of the Monkeys.

Name a story we studied that is non-fiction (one that really happened)

CHECK OUT THOSE SCIENCE WATER CYCLES!!

Our students brought some outstanding Water Cycle Models into the classroom this week. We so much enjoy the creativity that each student brings when they present their Water Cycle to their classmates. Above are just a few of the the wonderful samples brought into class this week. Thanks for all of your hard work!!

Weekly Housekeeping:

• Monday, April 4, 2011: Early Release/PLC


• Thursday, April 14, 2011: Langugae ISAT for our class

Language: Our story this week is Trapped by the Ice. This story is a true account of an exploration down to Antarctica. The students which view some actual pictures taken during the journey and learn the fate of the explorers.

The spelling list concentrates of the VCCV (vowel, consonant, consonant, vowel) spelling pattern.

• Monday


• sudden


• until


• forget


• happen


• follow


• dollar


• window


• hello


• market


• pretty


• order

Math:

We just finished up our Unit on multiplication and using 6, 7, and 8 as a factor. Please keep practicing these things at home; you will see then again on the ISAT test. This week we will start to learn about fractions and parts of a set.

Social Studies:

Our class continues to study about communities and what makes a good community. They will learn how they can be better community members.

Question Of The Week:

What are the four parts of the Water Cycle (Since you are such experts!!!!)