3rd
Grade Newsletter
February
6th, 2012
OUR REFLECTION: Let Us Learn Together What Is Good.
General News:
Progress reports go home this
Tuesday, February 7th.
The third graders continue to grow and demonstrate their learning in
lots of different ways. Progress
reports give me the opportunity to share with you how your child is doing so
please do not hesitate to email with concerns or questions. Let’s continue to work together during
this second part of the school year to ensure success!
What an amazing writing
celebration on Friday. Thank you
so much to all of the parents who attended. Writing essays at this level proves to be exceptionally
difficult but the third graders rose to the challenge. I am SO impressed with our young
writers.
The 7th grade will be
selling candy grams during lunch every day this week. You can purchase a Candy Gram for 50 cents each. All of the proceeds go to Hearts for Haiti.
Dates to Remember:
2/7 – Progress
reports sent home
2/8 – Weds. Noon
Dismissal – Teacher In-service
Looking Ahead:
2/14 – Tues. Red,
pink and white free dress for Valentine’s Day
2/20-2/24 Mid-Winter Break
2/27 – Mon. ITBS Testing
Begins
What we are doing this week:
Math
We will continue
exploring division this week, working on numbers 6, 7, 8 and 9.
****Students will
continue to have their fast facts tests on both Tuesdays and Thursdays. Please continue to practice these
multiplication facts each night.
Readers Workshop
This week, we will
learn that readers can develop complex theories about their characters by
paying attention to how they act and to times when they act “out of
character”. We will also look at
the objects that characters hold dear, growing more ideas about those
characters.
Your student will
receive their book selection back with comments from me. If your child selected a book that is
way beyond their level, I have asked them to re-evaluate and select a different
option.
Religion
We will have a guest
speaker this week, Father Bowman.
He will talk to us about his commitment to the church through the
Sacrament of Holy Orders.
Social Studies
We will learn about
some inventions that have radically changed peoples’ lives.
Science
This week, we use our
knowledge about rocks and minerals to identify the different minerals in
granite.
Spelling
Blue Group – wa, al,
ou
Green Group – review
of double, e-drop and nothing when adding –ing
Red Group – adding
suffixes –ion and –ian, and no spelling change
Purple Group – Number
prefixes (quadra-, tetra-, quint-, pent-, dec-)
Writers Workshop
This week, we will
grow our fictions ideas by imagining stories we wish existed in the world and
begin to learn how to develop believable characters by creating both external
and internal traits. We will also
develop our characters by thinking about motivations and struggles and creating
scenes that show these things.