I hope everyone had a wonderful and relaxing Spring Break! We are now heading into 4th quarter! I can't believe how quickly this year is flying by!
Announcements:
We have set the dates for three 3rd grade field trips! We will be heading to Clark Planetarium May 6th, Hill AFB May 21st and Hogle Zoo June 4th. We will
need parent chaperons for all of these field trips. If you would like to spend
the day (7:30 am-4:00 pm) with our class, please let me know!
Since it is 4th quarter, all students should be working toward mastering division. If your child is still working on multiplication, please encourage them to study their facts at home. This is also the final quarter to earn AR points for the reading rodeo!
Reading: This week our main story is 'Jalapeno Bagels', and we are making bagels in class on Wednesday! We are focusing on drawing conclusions and summarizing in order to better understand what we are reading.
Grammar: This week our focus is adverbs that compare. Our goal by the end of the week will be to identify comparative adverbs, and use them correctly in our writing.
Spelling:
thought
fought
bought
caught
walk
cough
talk
daughter
ought
sought
brought
trough
chalk
stalk
sidewalk
distraught
afterthought
overwrought
beanstalk
Math: This week in math we will begin multiplying with multi digit numbers, and determining the best strategy to solve multiplication problems. We will also be working on dividing multi digit numbers, and using patterns and estimation to solve and check our answers.
Friday, March 28, 2014
Sunday, March 23, 2014
March 24- 28
Announcements:
Yellowstone fundraising packets are due on Wednesday, March 26! Please make sure your child brings their order forms and payments to school this week, or that you have signed the form acknowledging that you wish to fund the trip out of pocket.
Friday is a 1:00 release due to Spring Break and the end of 3rd Quarter!!!
On Friday the 3rd grade will be going to the movie theatre to watch Epic as their AR goal reward for the quarter! Please ask your child how they are progressing toward meeting their AR goal, as they need to have met this goal in order to attend the trip!
Reading: This week in reading our main story will be 'Goodbye, 382 Shin Dang Dong'. We will be focusing on sequencing stories to better understand what we are reading.
Grammar: Our focus will be adverbs, and our goal for the week will be to identify adverbs in a sentence and to correctly use adverbs to strengthen our writing.
Spelling:
small
almost
always
because
straw
drawn
also
author
false
already
flaw
sausage
applesauce
walnut
lawn
awesome
altogether
awning
faucet
laundry
Math: We will be taking the Chapter 7 test on Monday. All students needed to complete pages 422-425 over the weekend to prepare. We will be finishing Chapter 10 this week as well, and will be taking the Chapter 10 test on Thursday. Please complete pages 606-609 at home to prepare. After this week we will be done doubling up in math, and will return to our regular schedule of math once a day!
Have a wonderful spring break!!
Yellowstone fundraising packets are due on Wednesday, March 26! Please make sure your child brings their order forms and payments to school this week, or that you have signed the form acknowledging that you wish to fund the trip out of pocket.
Friday is a 1:00 release due to Spring Break and the end of 3rd Quarter!!!
On Friday the 3rd grade will be going to the movie theatre to watch Epic as their AR goal reward for the quarter! Please ask your child how they are progressing toward meeting their AR goal, as they need to have met this goal in order to attend the trip!
Reading: This week in reading our main story will be 'Goodbye, 382 Shin Dang Dong'. We will be focusing on sequencing stories to better understand what we are reading.
Grammar: Our focus will be adverbs, and our goal for the week will be to identify adverbs in a sentence and to correctly use adverbs to strengthen our writing.
Spelling:
small
almost
always
because
straw
drawn
also
author
false
already
flaw
sausage
applesauce
walnut
lawn
awesome
altogether
awning
faucet
laundry
Math: We will be taking the Chapter 7 test on Monday. All students needed to complete pages 422-425 over the weekend to prepare. We will be finishing Chapter 10 this week as well, and will be taking the Chapter 10 test on Thursday. Please complete pages 606-609 at home to prepare. After this week we will be done doubling up in math, and will return to our regular schedule of math once a day!
Have a wonderful spring break!!
Sunday, March 16, 2014
March 17- 21
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Announcements:
On Thursday, March 20 we will have our once a month swim. Don't forget your swimsuit and towel!
PAWS testing will continue this week, and we will take the math portion Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 8:30- 10:00. Everyone did an AMAZING job staying focused and trying their hardest through the reading portion, and I was so proud of them!! Please make sure your child is in school those days, well rested, and ready to rock the math section just like they did the reading section!
All 3rd grade students who reach their 3rd quarter AR goal will be going to the movie theatre to watch 'Epic' on Friday, March 28th! Please check in with your child and encourage them to be reading if they haven't quite met their goal so that everyone can join us at the movies! Look for a permission slip coming home Monday!
Reading: This week's story will be 'How My Family Lives in America'. We will be working on determining whether details in a story are fact or opinion to better comprehend what we are reading.
Grammar: This week in grammar we will be learning about adjectives that compare (superlative and comparative adjectives). Our goal is to be able to define superlative and comparative adjectives, as well as find them in a sentence. We will also work on incorporating adjectives that compare in our writing to create better descriptions and paint mental pictures for our audience.
Spelling:
to
too
two
week
weak
our
hour
stair
stare
flour
flower
write
right
new
knew
their
there
they're
weather
whether
As you can tell, the spelling list theme this week is homophones! It would be very beneficial to your child to practice spelling these words correctly in sentences, since the spelling is dependent on meaning.
Math: In math this week we will continue with measurement, practicing measuring with centimeters, decimeters, meters, and kilometers. We will also be working with converting between these units, and focusing on using our knowledge of fractions and tenths/hundredths as a strategy for solving conversion problems.
Announcements:
On Thursday, March 20 we will have our once a month swim. Don't forget your swimsuit and towel!
PAWS testing will continue this week, and we will take the math portion Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 8:30- 10:00. Everyone did an AMAZING job staying focused and trying their hardest through the reading portion, and I was so proud of them!! Please make sure your child is in school those days, well rested, and ready to rock the math section just like they did the reading section!
All 3rd grade students who reach their 3rd quarter AR goal will be going to the movie theatre to watch 'Epic' on Friday, March 28th! Please check in with your child and encourage them to be reading if they haven't quite met their goal so that everyone can join us at the movies! Look for a permission slip coming home Monday!
Reading: This week's story will be 'How My Family Lives in America'. We will be working on determining whether details in a story are fact or opinion to better comprehend what we are reading.
Grammar: This week in grammar we will be learning about adjectives that compare (superlative and comparative adjectives). Our goal is to be able to define superlative and comparative adjectives, as well as find them in a sentence. We will also work on incorporating adjectives that compare in our writing to create better descriptions and paint mental pictures for our audience.
Spelling:
to
too
two
week
weak
our
hour
stair
stare
flour
flower
write
right
new
knew
their
there
they're
weather
whether
As you can tell, the spelling list theme this week is homophones! It would be very beneficial to your child to practice spelling these words correctly in sentences, since the spelling is dependent on meaning.
Math: In math this week we will continue with measurement, practicing measuring with centimeters, decimeters, meters, and kilometers. We will also be working with converting between these units, and focusing on using our knowledge of fractions and tenths/hundredths as a strategy for solving conversion problems.
Friday, March 7, 2014
March 10-14
Announcements:
This week is PAWS testing!!! We will be taking the reading portion of the test Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 8:30- 10:00. We have gone over the importance of these tests in class, but since the 3rd graders are new PAWS please stress to your child the importance of taking their time and trying their hardest.
We will be going to a movie on the 28th to celebrate those who have made their AR goals for 3rd quarter, so please remind your child to keep reading and staying on track with their points!
Reading: This week in reading our main story will be Suki's Kimono. We will be focusing on comparing and contrasting events, characters, and similar stories to better understand what we are reading. We will also be working on making predictions based on details from the story and our own background knowledge.
Grammar: In grammar we will be working on adjectives and articles. Our goal will be to define and identify articles (a, and, the) and adjectives (words that describe nouns). We will also be working on adding these words to our own writing and using them correctly.
Spelling:
create
medium
piano
idea
radio
video
studio
violin
duo
patio
rodeo
pioneer
trio
stadium
audio
audience
radiate
cereal
Creole
recreation
Math: In math this week we will continue working on division- using strategies and patterns to solve division problems with 10, 11, and 12 and introducing dividing when there is a remainder (what a remainder is, and how to find it). We will also begin Chapter 10- naming parts of a whole as tenths and hundredths using fractions and decimals.
Monday, March 3, 2014
March 3- 7
Announcements:
This Wednesday the University of Wyoming Science Posse is coming to our classroom! They will be talking to the students about their research, the importance of math and science, and leading our class in 5 different experiments! It should be a fun day!
Spring school pictures are on Wednesday.
PAWS testing is coming up in the next two weeks. We will do our tests in the morning on 3/11, 3/13, 3/18, and 3/20. Please make sure your child is well rested, has breakfast, and knows the importance of these tests.
Reading: We will not be starting a new reading unit this week, since it is a shortened week. No new spelling words!! Instead we will be focusing on writing, and taking the Unit 4 test.
Math: In math this week we will finish up measurement with measuring feet, yards, and miles, complete our chapter review in class, and take the Chapter 9 test on Thursday. We will also continue working on division, focusing on dividing with 6,7,3, and 9.
This Wednesday the University of Wyoming Science Posse is coming to our classroom! They will be talking to the students about their research, the importance of math and science, and leading our class in 5 different experiments! It should be a fun day!
Spring school pictures are on Wednesday.
PAWS testing is coming up in the next two weeks. We will do our tests in the morning on 3/11, 3/13, 3/18, and 3/20. Please make sure your child is well rested, has breakfast, and knows the importance of these tests.
Reading: We will not be starting a new reading unit this week, since it is a shortened week. No new spelling words!! Instead we will be focusing on writing, and taking the Unit 4 test.
Math: In math this week we will finish up measurement with measuring feet, yards, and miles, complete our chapter review in class, and take the Chapter 9 test on Thursday. We will also continue working on division, focusing on dividing with 6,7,3, and 9.
Science- Owl Pellets
This week we started looking at life cycles in science, and dissected owl pellets! Before we started dissecting our pellets, we made some predictions about what we were going to find inside. A few kids actually had barn owls in their barns, so they had a lot of prior knowledge! We discussed how pellets form when owls (or hawks and eagles) regurgitate the 'leftovers' that their stomach enzymes and acids couldn't dissolve. Then we talked about what it means for scientists to dissect something, set our expectations for the day, and began! (Side note: The pellets were sterilized before they were shipped, and we made sure to wash our hands and desks after touching the bones and before touching anything else. If you look for pellets around your house and barn they will NOT be sterile.)
This was probably one of the coolest investigations we have done. I always LOVE to see everyone's faces light up when they discover something new and unexpected, and I really love to hear their excitement and the connections they make- and this day was full of energy and discoveries! Here are a few of the things we discovered:
After we fully dissected the pellets, and separated the bones from the fur and feathers, we tried to piece the skeletons back together as much as we could, and attempted to determine the animals they had come from. Then we used our pieces of skeleton and the skulls found to estimate the species and number of animals that we had found.
We tallied this on our bones poster, discussed our findings, and they created bar graphs to show the number of animals we found. After we were all done we discussed how the pellets, owls, rodents, and other caterpillars and bugs fit into a food web, and what levels they were all on. This led into a great discussion on where animals in Wyoming fit into a food web, and where carnivores and herbivores generally fall.
It was such a fun day, and we all learned so much, myself included!
This was probably one of the coolest investigations we have done. I always LOVE to see everyone's faces light up when they discover something new and unexpected, and I really love to hear their excitement and the connections they make- and this day was full of energy and discoveries! Here are a few of the things we discovered:
After we fully dissected the pellets, and separated the bones from the fur and feathers, we tried to piece the skeletons back together as much as we could, and attempted to determine the animals they had come from. Then we used our pieces of skeleton and the skulls found to estimate the species and number of animals that we had found.
We tallied this on our bones poster, discussed our findings, and they created bar graphs to show the number of animals we found. After we were all done we discussed how the pellets, owls, rodents, and other caterpillars and bugs fit into a food web, and what levels they were all on. This led into a great discussion on where animals in Wyoming fit into a food web, and where carnivores and herbivores generally fall.
It was such a fun day, and we all learned so much, myself included!
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