A Short Week

We have a short week!
Housekeeping:

• Monday, October 1, 2012: PLC Early Release
• Thursday and Friday, October 4-5th: No school
• Thursday, October 11, 2012: AR Goal Deadline
• Thursday, October 11, 2012: End of first 6 weeks

Language Arts:
The spelling list for the week focuses on the short and long vowel sounds:

• stand
• rest
• plate
• clock
• white
• stuff
• spoke
• bend
• frame
• twist
• June
• mile

Since this is a shortened week, we are doing a genre study on poetry. The students will create several different types of poems and listen to a variety of poetry. Nice job on your personal narratives for our Family Adventure Book. They were very enjoyable to read, I had a great time reading through each one. Thank you parents for all your hard work in helping your students write their stories. We will recopy in our neatest penmanship and add a picture for the class book.

Math:
All of the third grade classes are getting to be experts at addition with higher numbers. Now we are working on subtraction with regrouping and subtraction over zero. This is always a complicated  twist in mathematical procedures. Please continue to work at home with addition and subtraction facts. We will continue to work on subtraction this week.

Science and Social Studies:
The third grade students are finalizing their study of space,  the earth and the moon. We just recently learned about the different types of eclipses. There are two kinds: the solar eclipse and the lunar eclipse.

Solar Eclipse: When the moon moves between the earth and the sun and casts a shadow on the sun.

Lunar Eclipse: When the earth moves between the moon and the sun and blocks the sun's rays. These occur more frequently and are safe to look at.

Question of the week:

1) BRAINSTORM:
Name 5 things you can do in the water.

2) What is the difference between a  sentence that is a statement and a sentence that is a command?