Second Six Weeks....First Kids to Meet their AR Goal.....These Students are SPEEDY!!

Blaykley 

Claire

Easton

Housekeeping:
Monday, October 21st: Early Release/PLC
Wednesday, October 23rd: PE
October 21st-October 25th: Ellis Book Fair in the Library
October 23rd and 24th: Grandparents and Granola
October 24-October 31st: RED RIBBON WEEK...activities will be announced in class.




Wednesday 23rd: "Put a cap on Drugs" (wear a cap)
Thursday 24th: Wear something bright
Friday 25th: Get into the spirit of Red Ribbon Week (Wear Ellis colors)
Monday 28th: Say "Boo" to drugs (Wear Orange and Black)
Tuesday 29th: "Sock it to drugs" (Wear crazy socks)
Wednesday 30th: "Team up against drugs" (Wear a team jersey)




Language Arts:
Grades are up on Infinite Campus. Each 6-week grading period we will always be working on these three "I Can" statements in Language Arts:

• I can spell third grade words correctly.
• I can use proper capitalization and punctuation when I write.
• I can read and understand books on a third grade level.

Other Language Arts Learning Targets for the next 6 weeks include:

I can identify the main idea in text I read and the supporting details.

I can write my opinion on a topic and support it with details.

I can discover if my point of view about a story is different than the authors'.

I can edit my paper with the help of an adult.

I can write a short organized opinion piece.

The story we are studying this week is called "The Keeping Quilt" by Patricia Polacco. This is a true story about Patricia Polacco and her ancestors. Patricia Polacco narrated the story and illustrated it. We will be watching a video of another story written by Patricia Polacco and compare and contrast the two stories. We will write a short opinion piece about the stories starting next week.

The spelling words for this week's list are as follows:

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

MATH:
Place Value: Check

Addition: Check

Rounding to the Nearest 10: Check

Rounding to the Nearest 100: Check

YAY!!!! We are finally starting subtraction and regrouping!! We will spend 2 weeks on subtraction with regrouping and subtraction across zeros. We also started FAST Math on Friday and this will give the students another option as we are at our computer time. Keep working on those addition and subtraction facts because they will really help with multiplication and division!!

Social Studies:

The third graders at Ellis continue to learn about communities and how they started and where they are located. We are relating the communities we study back to our own community of Pocatello and Chubbuck. This week we will learn how rules are made in our community and why it is important to have laws.

We will be thinking about these questions:

• Why did the city of Pocatello start?
• Why are laws in our community important?
• What are some of the laws we have in our community?
• Why is it important for the citizens of Pocatello to follow the laws?

Question of the Week:

Read the following passage about crocodiles and alligators. Identify the Main idea and three supporting details:

    

     Suppose you happened to walk by a crocodile and an alligator at the same time. Did you know the alligator and the crocodile look very much alike? How can you tell an alligator from a crocodile?

     The alligator has a long, lumpy, bumpy body. So does the crocodile. The alligator has four short legs, sharp teeth, and a long, strong tail. so does the crocodile.

     But alligators and crocodiles are not exact look-alikes. They have different noses, or snouts.

     An alligator has a wide, rounded snout. It looks like the letter U. A crocodile's snout comes to a point. It looks more like the letter V.

     There is another important difference. You can see it when the animals' mouths are closed. alligators just show their top teeth. Crocodiles show both top and bottom teeth.

     Crocodiles are usually longer than alligators. They can also out swim alligators. Most crocodiles weigh more, too. That may be why crocodiles are better fighters.