Monday, May 19, 2014

May 19- 23

Announcements:

We have our last once a month swim on Tuesday, May 20! Make sure you have your swimsuit, towel, and goggles!

The third grade will tie dyeing on Thursday for our trip to the zoo. Your child will need a white T- Shirt to dye, and old clothes in case any dye gets on them. We will rinse the shirts on Friday.

The Hill Air Force Base field trip is Wednesday! We will be leaving at 8:15 and returning between 4:00 abd 4:30. The trip is free, but your child will need to pack a sack lunch from home.


Reading: This week is our last reading unit for the year! The main story will be "Elena's Serenade". We will be focusing on generalizing and predicting to better understand what we read.

Grammar: Our last grammar unit will be about quotations. By the end of the week we will be able to determine if a quote is written correctly in a text, as well as add quotations to our own writing correctly.

Spelling:

cloth
clothes
nature
natural
able
ability
mean
meant
deal
dealt
please
pleasant
sign
signal
signature
equal
equation
equator
major
majority

Vocabulary:

burro
bursts
factory
puff
reply
tune
serenade
shriek
discouraged
instruments
mellow

Math: This week in math we will focus on probability, including describing the chances of an event occurring, determining whether events are fair or unfair, and looking at probability in actual events as fractions.