Mrs. Bright and Mrs. Price – Third Grade
Posted on December 10, 2009, by Thelma Bright, under Third Grade.
Happy Holidays!
This past month we learned a great deal about the lives of many new saints and got to revisit with some old ones, too. This month we will concentrate on the life of Mary, the Annunciation of the birth of Jesus and the Celebration of Advent.
In English we have been reviewing many previously learned concepts (nouns/verbs), learning to diagram sentences and putting all these grammar tools to use daily. This month we will concentrate on a lot of creative writing in anticipation of writing our individual books during the month of January. We finished our third class novel, Molly’s Pilgrim, in reading and have worked on a lot of different concepts regarding comprehension (inference, compare/contrast, vocabulary). We started our next class novel this month, Stone Fox, and we also will be reading mystery books, in lieu of a Reading Counts book. We will be doing a book report for our mystery books, too.
In Math, we finished our unit on Addition, and have now started with Subtraction. The students are really progressing with their addition and subtraction by using Math Score, so please have them keep using this as often as possible at home.
We completed our unit through the Solar System with our study of Astronomy and have begun our study of Chemistry, and we are learning what elements, compounds and atoms are.
We have been discussing Celebrations in Social Studies and will continue with this study up to the holiday break.
On Monday, December 14 we will be going to the Williamsburg Nursing Center in DeSoto to spread Christmas cheer along with the Kindergartners. This is a wonderful opportunity for your child to practice the corporal works of mercy. Thanks to all of our generous parents for donating the money (from the left over Halloween monies and for those who sent in items) for our gift donations.
Special thanks to Michelle Mills and Barbara Richardson, for organizing our gift donations. We are sure the residents will be thrilled with the bounty. Thank you, also to M G for the donation of the plastic handled bags that the goodies will go in; the students created a special holiday “card” to go on them that will surely cheer up each resident. So again, many thanks to all and have a safe and blessed holiday!
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