Ms. Debora Corlew

October 4 - 17, 2008

Have an enjoyable fall break!!

Don't forget, the 2nd nine weeks goals are due Tuesday, October 21.

Encourage your child to use the Caywood homepage as an excellent site for educational games. Go to      www.caywood .org      then click on the 3rd grade homepage link. From this site many excellent educational games can be located.

You might also want to bookmark this page on your computer: 

http://www.malden.k12.mo.us/cslaughter/Reading%20Units/new_page_1.htm

You will see each reading story listed. Your child may click on the current story title to practice vocabulary, spelling and reading skills currently being taught, or choose to click on a story that has been completed in order to review reading skills. These sites are fun and practice necessary reading skills for third graders.

Please encourage your child to visit Study Island , available through our homepage: www.caywood.org

Click on Study Island . Your child should know their username and password.

Just a Reminder . . .

 October 31^st – 11:30 dismissal for students

Data Notebooks: Each student in 3 ^rd , 4^th , and 5^th grade will have a data notebook.

The notebooks in 3^rd grade will contain your child's goal in each subject for each nine week period.

We will also track test grades on a graph so your child can easily see his/her progress.

All this data will be kept in a separate 1 inch black or white binder with tabs in your child's

classroom.
Please send a 1 inch black or white binder and 5-tab insertable dividers by next

Monday so we can get your child's binder set up. If you need help with this, please let me know.

Thanks so much for all of your help!

Grading Policy – Grades will be composed of summative tests (chapter and unit tests);

formative tests (daily grades, quizzes); projects and nine weeks tests. Your child will also be taking mid-term and

final tests this year. Your child will bring home graded papers that must be signed by parents weekly.

Please go over any wrong answers not already corrected on these papers.

Have your child correct any mistakes, sign and return papers to school as quickly as possible (the next day is preferable).

If you need more time for your child to make corrections, please write a note and let me know.

I’ll be glad to work with you on this. ________________________________________________________________________

I am asking parents to periodically donate antibacterial wipes and Kleenex.  

Skills: Reading/Vocabulary skills: Setting Predicting Compare and Contrast Theme Author's purpose Character Draw conclusions Cause and effect Sequence Context clues Graphic sources Fact & opinion Main idea & supporting details Steps in a process Summarizing Text structure Reading Genre (fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, folktale, play, biography) Phonics Compound words Vocabulary words

English skills: Pronouns Quotation Marks Adjectives, Articles, Adverbs, & To, Two, Too Verbs (present, past, & future time, verb be (am, is, are, was were), helping verbs, irregular verbs, & contractions) Types of sentences (statement, command, question & exclamation) Subjects and predicates Nouns (common, proper, singular and plural, & possessives) Complete sentences Run on sentences Proofreading

Math skills: Word problems Addition and subtraction (2 and 3 digits; subtraction across zeros) Counting money Patterns Graphs Expanded form Fact families Number sentences Place value (ones, tens, and hundreds) Addition and subtraction (with & without regrouping) Even and odd numbers Greater than, less than, equals Rounding to the nearest ten and the nearest hundred Money (counting and making change) Time (quarter hour, half hour, am/pm, elapsed time) Bar Graphs, Pictographs, &  Ordered Pairs Measurement (inches & centimeters, estimating, inch/foot/yard/miles) Geometry (2-D/3-shapes, symmetrical & congruent shapes, perimeter, area)

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