BABY IT"S COLD OUTSIDE!!!

Boys and Girls....please don't forget to wear really warm layers and bring your hats and gloves; it is cold outside!!

Housekeeping:
Monday, January 14, 2013: Early Release/PLC
Thursday, January 17, 2013: End of Six Week Grading Window
Thursday, January 17, 2013: Third Grade IRI
Thursday, January 17, 2013: AR Goal Deadline
Thursday, January 17, 2013: Technology Night at Ellis. Bring your parents to come and watch you PowerPoint slide show.  6:00 pm
Friday, January 18, 2013: Classroom auction and AR Party (Scooters and Dress from the past)

Language Arts:
Technology: Students will put the finishing touches on their PowerPoint presentations this week. Come on Thursday evening to Ellis Technology Night and see what your child has been working on!!
Story of the Week: The Mysterious Giant of Barletta
Spelling List:
girl
clear
her
turn
dark
work
smart
word
hurt
serve
north
heard

**Since we had a snow day on Friday, we will be taking the spelling test on Monday for last week's words.
We missed our scheduled Library time and will be visiting the Library on Monday or Tuesday.

Math:
We are off to a great start with Multiplication. Each day we learn a new multiplication fact along with a fun story to help memorize the fact. We have reviewed multiplication with 0, 1, 5, and 2's. These are the easy ones. Just remember......Multiplication is just repeated addition!!  Zero is the KING!!   One is like a mirror, and 2 times a number means add that number twice.....IT IS JUST A DOUBLE!!  These week we will review 5's, 2's, 1's, 0's and start to teach how division and multiplication are related.

Science:
Earth's Resources. Last week we did a quick Unit on Martin Luther King. This week we will head back into Science with Earth's resources. We will learn about natural resources, exhaustible resources, and inexhaustible resources.

**Don't forget, the Winter IRI is on Thursday. We already know you have improved as readers, we just want to see how much.

We think you are GREAT!!!
Question of the Week:

4 x 3 = 12

In the above math multiplication equation, what numbers are the factors?
What number is the product

Can you make up a word problem using the equation 4 x 3 = 12?