3rd Grade News
March 8-12
This Week’s Highlights
Monday: NLSW Chapel at Trinity, Library
Tuesday: AR Tests, Snappy Pizza Day, Musical Practice
Memory: Psalm 119:33-34
Wednesday: Guest Lunch, Musical Practice
Memory: Proverbs 22:5-6
Thursday: AR Tests, Cup Stacking Competition (2:15)
Memory: 1 Timothy 4:12
Science Test (Chapter 10)
Friday: Guest Breakfast; Juggler (2:00)
Memory: Hymn of the Month, v. 2
Facts Test (x4)
Spelling Test
Classroom Happenings
Religion
3 Men in a Furnace; Daniel in the Lion's Den; Jonah
Reading (Biographies)
We will continue reading sections from our biographies. Students are making notes in their journals of important events, interesting details, questions/confusing parts, and new vocabulary. Ask your child about the biography they have begun reading. Encourage them to share with you the interesting facts they learn from their book!
Language
We will continue writing our personal narrative stories. We will also learn how to make a research grid to learn more about our countries.
Math—L. 101-105
Missing Addends to Equal 100; Making Change from $1.00; Five-Digit Numbers; Multiplying by 100 and 1,000; Expanded Form
*Facts Focus: x 4 (Test Friday)
Enrichment Group: L. 8-Adding Money; L. 9-Adding with Regrouping; L. 10-Even and Odd; Investigation 1-Number Lines; L. 11-Missing Addends in Story Problems
Social Studies--Ancient Cultures (Ch. 5)
Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, Greece
Science—Matter (Ch. 10)
Properties of Matter--Density, Volume, Weight, Mass, Buoyancy
Spelling Words—Lesson 24 (review)
20 words will be chosen from the list on page 112 for the test.
Homework: Pages 112-115; Choose 10 tough words and write each in a sentence; For those 10 words, write a trick to help someone remember how to spell it.
--Please return your child's signed Dairy Queen envelope by Friday (in order for the students to get their ice cream reward). The report card is yours to keep.
--We will be wearing our class shirts on Wednesday for guest lunch day.
--Our class will be leading chapel next Monday (3/15). As always, you are invited to join us for worship at 8:30.
Miss Kaisler
812-968-9138 (before 9:00 p.m.)