January 3-February 3

Please accept my apologies for not posting the last few weeks as time just got away from me. We have been very busy since we returned from winter break. It is hard to believe that we are about to start the 5th week of this nine weeks.   A big thank you to the parents that have volunteered to help with selling bracelets on Tuesday January 31st. We will be selling bracelets during the lunch period all next week and each third grade class has a day that they will be in charge of the selling. A note went home a week ago about volunteering to help.  The students have done a great job making the bracelets this past week for the sale. In the past, we have made between 500 and 700 dollars through this sale.  We use the sale to discuss the social studies concept of running a business. Also as part of this unit, we had  a guest speaker from Chase Bank come and speak to the studnets about money and spending and saving. They enjoyed the speaker and had some great questions.

 As you know, we have had several benchmarks since we returned to school. If you have not seen the slip I sent home with your child's scores, please let me know. If at any time, you would like to meet and review those tests,  I would be happy to set up a time for that to happen.

February 14th is just around the corner. We will be having a class party. I will send home a list this week with the names of each student in the class . I will also include the names of our Specials Teachers in case  you child would like to give them a valentines.  I will provide the student with a bag  to collect their Valentines in. If you have any ideas for what we could do for this party let me know this week.   

What we are Learning:

Social Studies : we will continue to make bracelets and also look at the Free Enterprise System and Supply and demand. Our class will sell bracelets on Tuesday.

Sceince : We will continue to look at Changes to the Land and our focus will now be on rapid changes such as  Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Hurricanes and Landslides

Math :  We will continue to look at area and perimeter and  then go back and  review  multiplication.

Reading: We are looking at Fables this week with a focus on Theme and Plot and seeing the changes the character goes through.

Writing : Working on  revising a personal narrative for word choice. Spelling focus oo or root spec.

Homework

Math - Monday page 88B and Wednesday   All Aboard Sheet
Reading  -  Tuesday -  Inference practice - reading sheet / Thursday - writing - selecting the right word

Reminder they should be reading for 30 minutes a night during the week and for a total of 60 minutes on the weekend and writing down the name of their book in their agenda. Spelling homework is due on Friday.

Have a Fantastic Week!

Ms. Derrington

Jan 3-Jan 6

Happy New Year and welcome back to  the second semester. I hope that all of you had an enjoyable break .   Thanks to all of you for your donations for our holiday party. I think that everyone had an enjoyable time.
 We are now beginning our third nine weeks. Report cards for the second nine weeks will go home on  Monday January 9th and  we will have Explorer Excellence awards on  Tuesday January 10th at  8:00 am.

What we will be learning this week :
 Social studies - Economics - focus on wants and needs
Science - Solar System
Math - Naming and identifying the attributes of 2d shapes
Reading /writing - Procedural text

Homework :
Spelling will go home Tuesday and will be due Friday
Tuesday: Reading  sheet - sequence events
Wednesday - math sheet - geometric patterns  also information will come home today about shape project.
Thursday - Reading sheet - sequence events
In addition, students should be reading 30 minutes a night  during the week and  60 minutes on the weekend.

Have a great week!
Ms. Derrington