WELCOME TO 2008-2009 SCHOOL YEAR!
Please check this site for information about weekly assignments, homework, upcoming events and general information. Remember this site is only a guide. Students should have all up to date information in their daily planners.
REMINDERS:
*Please check the February School calendar for important dates and events.
*Ash Wednesday: Some of our Third Graders will be helping during our School Mass. Have you heard how beautiful our Third Graders sing in Choir? You are always invited to celebrate Mass with us.
*Valentine’s snack: Thank you Mrs. Meyer for bringing our Valentine’s Healthy Snack Friday, Feb 13th. Have everyone a fun Valentine’s Day! br>
SPRINGFEST RAFFLE TICKETS: Thank you for selling raffle tickets last week. Third Grade (3A and 3B) got FIRST PLACE for selling the most tickets in our school from Feb.2nd-Feb. 6th. The kids got treated with pizza and gatorade for lunch and we worn our Springfest T-shirts for that special day. Great Teamwork third grade! Ever Friday, Sister Marian Graces announces the winner.
*Practice Multiplication and Division Facts this month! Please sign and return your child's individual "sticker chart" in the little square, under each set, upon completion.
*Applause!!! Several students started (division) tests. This counts for a COMPUTATION GRADE each quarter
*Spelling Tests are every Friday unless is a short week.
*Math- Chapter #9 Test, Thursday, February 19th.
Absent Work: If your child happens to be absent, they have 2 days (for each day absent) to make up the work.
HOMEWORK: : Please check your child’s agenda every night for any homework or unfinished assignments. Help your child complete and/or correct any work. He/she should return it the very next day. We are practicing being "Self Directed Individual and Critical Thinkers!
COMPUTERS:
Please remember to do your weekly typing and to submit your log on line.
ARTMASTERPIECE: Thank you to Mrs. Nahom, Mrs. Chermack, Mrs. Rief, Mrs. Van Vleet and, Mrs. Mirmelli for teaching our Art classes this month, we really appreciate your time and your talnets.
FIELD TRIP: Celebrity Theatre permission slip and money are due by Tuesday, February 17th.
CONFIRMATION: Please return your child’s Confirmation form by March 17th.
WHAT ARE WE LEARNING
RELIGION :
We are recognizing the importance of belonging to a family and to the Church. We will learn that sharing meals is also another sign of belonging in the family and in the Church. Please remember to do your home-lessons as part of the preparation for first Communion and Confirmation with your child.
MATH:
The focus is on MULTIPLICATION: Objectives: 1) to use repeated addition and arrays to model multiplication; 2) to use the Commutative Property and Properties of One and Zero for multiplication; 3) to multiply with 2,4,5,10,3, 6, 7, 8, and 9; 4) to use the Associative Property of Multiplication. Be sure to check out www.eduplace.com. for further practice and challenging games. Looking ahead to division: concepts, facts, and patterns!
READING:
The skills that we are going to be working in UNIT #3 are as follows: Comprehension 1) steps in a process, 2)visualizing, 3) sequence of events, summarizing, and 4) multiple-meaning words. Phonics: 1) r-controlled vowels, 2) silent letters “wr, kn, st, gn, mb”, 3) medial consonant diagraphs th, ch, ph, sh. 4) base words, 5) suffixes –ness, -ly,-ful,-ous. Study Skills: 1) encyclopedia, 2) evaluate reference source.
WRITING:
6 Traits and the Writing Process (web, rough draft, edit, final draft): Summarize a story. Also, we will develop an understanding of the comparison/contrast paragraph.
GRAMMAR: Verbs.
ACCELERATED READING:
Our goal for this year is that every third grader reads AR books and takes a reading comprehension quiz. This is your child's independent reading time. We read 15 minutes after lunch recess and everyone should be either reading a book, taking a quiz, or checking a book at the Library. Please remind your child not to forget his/her AR book at home. Each child will have an AR folder with an Individual Goal. Please review and write your Initials on your child's AR folder every Wednesday. Congratulations to everyone, you are becoming Great Readers!
Students' NEW reading level and NEW Goal has been updated for Third Quarter and should aim to score 90%-100% on every "comprehension quiz". Encourage your child to meet his/her third marking period goal (#points with 90-100% minimum average correct).
SPELLING:
We are learning how to spell words with r-controlled vowels, regular and irregular plurals.
HANDWRITING:
The students are very excited to be writing in cursive. Have you seen our Agenda planners??? Everyone is writing in cursive WOW!!! The focus skills that we are continuing to practice are; 1. How to slant the letters, 2. How to space words on the line, 3. Formation and height of each letter, 4. Neatness. We are practicing the upper-case cursive letters.
SCIENCE:
Third grade is exploring the Earth’s Surfaces, Land Formations, Solids, Gases, and Liquids.
SOCIAL STUDIES:
Our concentration is on Differences between State, City and Country Maps, the Communities within them, and Geographic Areas.
We are also learning about the "Current" topics in today's news from our Scholastic "Weekly Readers".
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