posted on March 01, 2008 12:09
3rd Grade News
March 3-7
Lessons for the Week:
Bible Stories:
God Provides for Elijah
Elijah and the Prophets of Baal
Naboth’s Vineyard
Naaman and Ellisha
Memory:
Monday: None
Tuesday: Romans 4:25
Wednesday: John 11:25-26
Thursday: Titus 2:13
Friday: The Third Article
Reading:
New Unit: Money The Go-Around Dollar
Vocabulary Words: seal; portrait; debts; formula; counterfeit; emblem; remains; inspect
Language:
Skills covered: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives; Inflectional Ending –ed; Sequence; Using a dictionary; /ow/ & /ou/ spellings
Writing Composition:
Writing a Summary
Math:
Multiplying by 3, by 4, and by 5; showing fractional amounts greater than 1; writing mixed numbers; measuring and drawing line segments to the nearest quarter inch; identifying parallel lines and line segments; identifying the properties of quadrilaterals; finding the missing addend for a sum of 100
Social Studies:
Begin a new unit, Communities over Time, which includes two chapters, Learning About the Past and Our Nation’s History.
Spelling:
unhappy, unsafe, unlucky, restart, rewrite, replay, reread, untie, unfold, unwrap, unpack, repay, refill, repaint
Handwriting:
Joining of letters together;
Keys to Legibility; Downcurve letters
Tests
Monday:
Tuesday: Spelling Pretest
Wednesday: Reading Skills & Vocabulary
Thursday: Friday: Math Fact Assessment
Math Written Assessment. Spelling Test, Reading Test
From Mrs. Blackwell
My newsletter will be posted on Sunday afternoon as I usually do planning on the week-end.
Please remember to send money for McDonald's lunch onThursday. We are going to the Columbus Philharmonic Orchestra and will eat lunch in Columbus.
We got to the computer room for AR four times this week! Most of the students got some AR tests done during this time. Sone are reading longer books. Points gained this week range from 0.0 - more than 7.0 points.
Students of the Week this week are Skyler Stahl and Andrew Scarlett. Next week well be Jacob Rorig and Jordan Peters
Remember to send in items for our NLSW “Care Packages Service Project”. We are sorting and packing on Tuesday this week
Congratulations:
Spelling Bee Class Winners
Snappy Pizza Winners for Books Read at Home
High Honor Roll Students
Regular Honor Roll Students
Looking forward to seeing you all this week at our Guest Luncheon on Wednesday. Please feel free to stop by our room after lunch.