Ms. Bright and Mrs. Price – Third Grade
Posted on March 11, 2010, by Saints Author, under Third Grade.
PrintFebruary sure went past with a FLURRY of activity. We have worked so hard on our Student Treasure books and the students knocked themselves out with all their poetry writing. The finished products are just beautiful and we’re sure you will be very pleased with them, too!
In Religion, the students have been learning about the miracles and parables of Jesus; we will begin to prepare for the Living Stations of the Cross which the third grade class will present just before Easter. We will let you know the date so that you may plan to attend if you wish.
We finished our unit on multiplication in math and have now moved on to basic division (0 to 5). After we finish basic division (just after Spring Break) we will return to multiplication.
In English, since we used so many of our grammar skills while writing our Poetry books, we will be doing some review work and testing over various concepts. We will then be moving on with more writing of paragraphs and friendly letters. To aid us in this PLEASE be sure that your child knows his/her full address (#, street, city, zip code) when they return from Spring Break.
In Reading we have just completed reading our class novel, Old Yeller. We watched the movie and did a comparison of the two genres, and done some intensive testing (comprehension/vocabulary) over the text. We will be moving on to a book titled Henry Huggins: Try Our Large Economy Size by Beverly Cleary right after Spring Break.
The students have taken another Lexile test and overall the scores just keep going up! Please encourage your child to keep reading; they should have read their next RC book by the week after the break, and the test should be taken by March 26.
In spelling we have covered the /j/ sound, plurals ending w/ -ies, homophones (words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and mean different things), and days of the week/time words. After the break we will review these lessons and then focus on words ending with –ld/-ft and the /ar/ sound spelled –air/-are/-ear.
In Science we will be finishing our unit on Physics and we will review after Spring Break, and then move on to a unit on Meteorology. In Social Studies, we have been discussing more about communities and their resources and after the break we will move on to a unit about communities of the past and present
As always, PLEASE continue to have your child practice their times tables nightly. Have them log on to Math Score as frequently as possible and also, SpellingCity.com for some spelling re-freshment and fun.
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