Welcome back! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year!
We are jumping right back into things, and will be extra busy for the next few months! We started reading teams as a whole third grade to encourage the students to be reading and getting those AR points for the rodeo, so for the next few weeks there will be extra incentive to be reading and helping their teams out. When your child finishes a book at home, feel free to send a note with the title(s) so they don't forget what test they need to take when they get to school!
In reading this week our main story will be A Symphony of Whales, and we will be focusing on making generalizations about characters, events, and other story elements based on facts from the story.
The spelling words for the week are:
beautiful
safely
kindness
finally
spotless
worthless
illness
helpful
daily
suddenly
wireless
quietly
fairness
cheerful
painful
anxiously
thoughtfully
cautiously
tardiness
breathless
The focus is on suffixes, so it might be helpful to review how the suffixes change the meaning of the root word as well as practicing spelling them.
Math will be very busy for the next couple months as we prepare for the end of the year testing. We will be doing two math lessons a day most days. This week we will be working on multiplication, and looking closely at 2,5, and 10 as factors. We will also be starting geometry and learning about shapes and lines.
We will also begin cursive this week, working on one letter a day briefly at the end of the day.
