Ms. Bright and Mrs. Price – Third Grade

Posted on November 11, 2009, by Saints Author, under Third Grade.

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The year is flying by us as we continue learning and enjoying expanding our friendships.  We have been reviewing and learning many new concepts, too.

In English we have begun learning how to diagram sentences.  This will be an on-going process.  We are also reviewing the use of apostrophes and we will be working on some creative writing in anticipation of the holidays and writing our individual books in the Spring.  We finished our second and third class novels, Bunnicula, and Molly’s Pilgrim, and we will be doing some comprehension tasks for Molly’s Pilgrim. We will soon begin reading Stone Fox, a novel by John Reynolds Gardiner.  We are well on our way to reading the required 30 novels for the school year.  Be sure to help your child keep up with their Reading Counts books, too.  Remember that we have requested that the students NOT read the Goosebumps series books for the Reading Counts/AR quizzes.

In Math we are continuing with addition and after the Christmas holidays we will begin multiplication.  We have also started giving the students daily timed tests, in both addition and subtraction.  The students have 1 minute to complete as many problems as possible out of 20, (soon to be 30 problems), as accurately as possible.  We will not grade these, but rather chart them to gauge the students’ progress.  We are also going to the Tech Lab each Tuesday to work on Math Score on the computers; we have seen a lot of improvement already.

In Science we completed presenting our Solar System projects and…  WOW!  We were impressed!  We will now finish the Astronomy unit and then move on to our Chemistry unit.
In Social Studies we have finished our overview of geography, including the regions of the United States.  We are now beginning a study of celebrations that we recognize in America (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Kwanzaa, etc…).  The students will be working on a project about one of these celebrations in early December.  More information will follow concerning this project.

In Religion we are discussing the lives of the saints in anticipation of our Saints game on Nov. 20th.  3B did an outstanding job with the Mass on Nov. 6th and 3A will be leading the Mass on Nov. 20th.  We will be going to a nursing home in Duncanville in December to sing and visit.  Look for more information to come home concerning this work of mercy field trip.

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