WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL!!!

Welcome Back to School Room #1. We are so excited to have you in our class this year and we look forward to getting to know you better as we learn and have a ton of fun together!

Housekeeping:

• Monday, September, 10, 2012: Sorting Hat in the classroom following lunch. Make sure you come to school and see what House at Hogwarts you will be in for the year!!
• The AR Goals are set!! We only have 4 weeks to reach the goals. I am going to have to make a few adjustments on some of the goals because we have amazing readers in our class and they need a good challenge!!
• Wednesday/Thursday, September 19th and 20th: Hearing Screening to be done at school.
• Thursday, September 20th: Visiting Author Assembly in the Cafeteria.
• Monday, September 24th: Second Annual Fall Carnival. Come with your family and friends and be prepared to have a BLAST!!!!

Reading and Language Arts:
This week our story is called Cliff Hanger, by Jean Craighead George. We will be working on the concept of Cause and Effect and will have some reading activities centered around this skill. Each morning the students come into class they will work for about 7 minutes on Daily Language Review. They are given this worksheet on Monday morning and they complete it every morning for 4 days. It is a great Language Skill builder.

The Spelling List should have gone home in their Friday Folders with any corrected work and their new homework for the week. Homework is due next week on any day, but must be completed and handed in by Friday. Following are the spelling words for the story Cliff Hanger.

mix
milk
smell
last
head
friend
class
left
thick
send
thin
slick

Math:

The last week we worked on Place Value and also addition strategies to help the students with simple math facts. A cheap set of flashcards are an excellent resource to help your kids build speed at instantly knowing their addition and subtraction basic math facts. A great website for math skills is located at www.math-drills.com. Their are worksheets for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We use it quite a bit for drill and practice.

Science:

All of the Third Grade at Ellis work on Science for about six weeks and then switch to Social Studies. Currently we are studying about the moon and the earth and how they are the same and how they are different. Mrs. Shore did a really great moon phase activity on Friday. Ask your kids about it.

Question of the Week from Mountain Language:

What is the abbreviation for the word Friday?

Is the word Statue of Liberty a proper noun?

Make a list of 5 proper nouns.

If the students post their answers in the comment section, we will give them a blue token in the classroom. HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!