Just a relly great week!!

Housekeeping:
Monday, October 22, 2012: Early Release PLC
Monday, October 29, 2012: Start of Red Ribbon Week-PJ Day
Tuesday, October 30, 2012: Crazy Hair Day
Wednesday, October 31, 2012: Wear Red Day
Thursday, November 1, 2012: Inside-Out Day
Friday, November 2, 2012: Extreme Ellis Day
Wednesday, November 21, 2012: End of Six Weeks/AR Goal deadline

Language Arts:
The story of the week is The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco. This story is a personal narrative, non-fiction story about a woman and her ancestors and the quilt they all grew up with.

Writing: The students have completed paragraph one of their 3 paragraph informative report on planets. This week we are
pre-writing paragraph 2 and then editing it and polishing it.

Spelling words for the week:

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

Math:
We will complete a quick unit on measuring lengths, parallel and perpendicular lines, and types of quadrilaterals. After the Unit Test on Tuesday, we will jump in to comparing numbers and rounding.

Social Studies:
All the third grade classes are busy studying communities, why they start and where they start. We will be learning about Native Americans and their customs and places to settle.

Questions of the Week:

Put the commas in the correct places.

1. The small girl visited her Grandma in Mesa Arizona on July 30 2012.

2. When I go camping I like to eat pancakes sausage eggs and bacon for breakfast.

What is a quadrilateral in math?? Is a square a quadrilateral?