Mrs. Bright & Mrs. Price – Third Grade
Posted on September 24, 2009, by Thelma Bright, under Third Grade.
Happy autumn!
The school year began with a flurry of activity, but we’ve settled into our routines quite nicely. We continue to be blessed with a wonderful group of kids and terrific, supportive parents again this year. We began some new topics this month including prepositions, conjunctions and pronouns in English. In Reading we have been using some Readers’ Theater books to develop a sense of reading in communion with others. We will be performing these stories (w/ props) in class for one another. In Spelling we have been reviewing the short and long vowel sounds. In Math we have almost finished our unit on place value (important for addition, subtraction and stepping stones for multiplication and division). In Science we have been studying the Solar System and have almost finished our study of the Sun, Earth and the Moon. In Social Studies we have been reviewing atlas skills and the continents and oceans of the Earth. In Religion we have been reviewing that our God is a loving God, that He cares for us like a loving parent, and that people who follow and do God’s good works are called Saints.
Coming up in the next month we will be learning about Mary, the rosary and more about the saints in preparation for our annual Saints Game. In Social Studies we will be studying the United States, the capitals and important facts about each state; this will lead us to a project about the states. We will finish the month with a study of Native Americans. In Science we will continue to explore the solar system in Astronomy with a study of the planets. We will be having a test next week over the first portion of the Astronomy unit. Moving on in Math, we will begin a unit on addition! We have also begun using a computer program called Math Score! The students love this approach to learning math. We will be sending home information so the kids can use this at home, too. In Spelling we will be reviewing what we have learned so far, and moving on to the /oi, ou, and aw/o/ sounds. In Reading we will be finishing our story Charlotte’s Web, and will be reading Bunnicula in honor of Halloween. We have also begun using the SRA Reading Kit (ask your child; they’re enjoying it, too). In English we will continue using our Daily Grammar books to reinforce our grammar skills. We will be learning how to make plurals with words ending in /f/ (wife, wives), work more on verbs and continue to sing our preposition, helping verb and pronouns song.
We will be Lexile testing again this week (9/24) and will be having our Sight Words quizzes on Sept. 24, Oct. 8 and 22nd. Our next Reading Counts test taking date will be October 2.
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