Winter Notes........
Well, welcome to third grade! Thank you for your patience as I have switched my link from second to third.
Reading:
We are exploring Animal Habitats in theme 4. Skills that will be taught include fact and opinion, comparing and contrasting, and making judgements. Remember, a comprehension sheet will be coming home each week to allow practice of each skill. It will always be due on Friday. Thank you for taking this opportunity to read with your child. Please sign the sheet to show you have worked together.
Many of the students and families are on board with the Lucky Listener poems! Thanks for helping your child improve fluency with this fun activity. Please see to it that it is read at least 10 times and the signatures show this. Remember, it can be read to any who will listen! Some students have taken it upon themselves to call relatives and read it that way. What a fabulous idea for all! Grammar skills will consist of verbs of being, irregular verbs, and helping verbs.
Spelling will be given each week unless otherwise noted in the agenda. Assignments will remain the same for each term. Please assist your child with completeness and accuracy of these assignments. As mentioned in the beginning of the year, nightly assignments are checked each day. Please check for a stamp or check to indicate that your child has been given credit for his/her work.
Math:
ALthought we are still practicing those multiplication facts, we have moved on to measurement. It has been fun sharing our baby weights. Thanks for sending those in! After our measuring unit we will explore shapes, polygons, quadrilaterals, movement and symmetry in geometry. Our next benchmark test will given in May. We will be reviewing in class to prepare for MSA testing which will be coming up in early April. Like last year, you may always set up a time to discuss your child's results on these assessments. Feel free to contact me. Along with nightly homework sheets, students should be drilled on their facts. They have had a chance to make flash cards, but this can easily be done with the use of the multiplication table that they have been given.
Some math reminders: Homework is given each night, and your help is appreciated. Again, feel free to let me know of any questions you might have as they arise.
Finishing up with Matter, we will discuss notable Americans during our study of African Americans and Presidents. After this, we will move into a unit on government.
General, important information:
MIDTERM REPORTS COME HOME ON FRIDAY, May 2.
*Be sure to review Friday folders and sign each week. Thanks to all of you who are doing this.
** Binder folders can get full pretty quickly, so please help your child in cleaning them out weekly. Unless it says 'keep', you are free to take it out. All homework that has been gone over in class should be obviously "checked". If you want to check before disgarding, feel free to send me a note on the particular item and I will confirm for you. Vocabulary baggies are to be kept in the RE/LA folder. Words should be cleaned out each Friday.
*** Look for upcoming events in the Mustang Messenger. Third grade will be given the Maryland School Assessment in the first 2 weeks of April. Be sure to check for upcoming notes on this. Any special classroom notes will be written in the agenda. **** A brochure explaining our schoolwide behavior system , PBIS, has gone home. This should help with your understanding of our new discipline system throughout WIS. Each marking period there will be a reward for those students enough merits. Be sure to discuss with your child how he/she is doing with these merits. If you should have any questions, feel free to contact me.
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