Third Grade
(updated 9/5/2010)
The students (and their teacher!) are really starting to get the hang of the new year! Thank you for your patience, trust, and perseverence as we work through the inevitable kinks in the system. Hopefully, you are noticing progress with your child and are pleased with what he/she is sharing with you about the school day!
I want to let you know that I will have a sub for my class for September 13-15. Many of you are already familiar with Mrs. James, our former Fourth Grade teacher. She has subbed for me in the past and is very familiar with the routine of Third Grade. While she will be teaching the students their lessons, I do not expect her to be grading their work and she will not be entering grades on Snapgrades. Thus, any grades for your child from Friday, September 10th (I will be leaving immediately after school) to Wednesday, September 15th will be graded and entered on Snapgrades over the weekend of the 18th. The exception to this will be the Spelling pretest. Mrs. James will grade the pretests and send home the papers so you will know if your child will be exempt from Friday's test. PLEASE BE CERTAIN to return your child's signed pretest if he/she earned between a 90 and 99%.
The following is snapshot of what we are doing the week of 9/7-10/2010:
Language Arts:
Story: Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday
Comprehension Skill: Sequencing
Comprehension Strategy: Visualize
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Grammar: Statements and Questions
Vocabulary Skill: Glossary or Dictionary
Spelling: Adding -ed, -ing, -er, est
Spelling Words:
using
getting
easiest
swimming
heavier
greatest
pleased
emptied
leaving
worried
strangest
freezing
funniest
angrier
shopped
Religion:
Continued focus on PBIS values. This week, we more closely examine Community and integrate all four values. We will also continue to more closely examing traits from our Be A Champ! classroom management strategy. In the event your child hasn't expained this to you, CHAMP stands for: Conversation, Help, Activity, Movement, and Participation. Each of these words has list of acceptable ways to work through our school day. The following are the choices for each word:
Conversation: Silent, Partner Voices, or Group Voices
Help: Raise Your Hand, Ask a Friend, Ask Your Group
Activity: Do Own Work or Group Combines Effort for One Product
Movement: Stay Seated, Move With Permission, or Responsible Movement
Participation: Work Independently, Work With a Partner, or Work With Your Group
At a glance, a student can look to see what he/she is supposed to be doing with regard to Conversation.
Math:
Keeping in mind that our Math program is spiraling in nature, any topic that has been previously listed will be revisited on a frequent basis. Thus, I will only be listed new skills or concepts to be covered during the week.
As you can see from the below list, we are continuing to work through the first ten lesson's skills and concepts. This week, your child will begin taking home his/her Math Folder to share with you. Please know that this folder MUST be returned to school each day so that your child will be ready for the next day's lesson. Thank you for your help with this.
Using a thermometer
Reading number lines and scales
Fractional phrases: quarter of, half past, three-quarters, and whole hour terms
Adding numbers by combining groups, recalling facts, using pictures, and objects
Use terms addends and sums in addition number sentences
Subtract whole numbers by separating groups and recalling facts
Recognize relationship between fact families and 3 numbers
Commutative Property of Addition
Practice Timed Power Up Addtion Fact Tests
Social Studies:
Finish our study of Chapter 6, Lesson One. Review for test. Take our first test.
As a reminder, the following objectives will be tested:
Learn how a simple business operates in the U.S. free-enterprise system
Identify goods and services
Explain the importance of businesses in communities
Look at a biography and identify how a person shows good citizenship in improving the community
Difference between a biography and an autobiography
Discuss difference between Needs and Wants
Here is the information about our lessons for the week of 9/13-17/2010:
Language Arts
Story: If You Made a Million
Comprehension Skill: Realism/Fantasy
Comprehension Strategy: Monitor and Fix Up
Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues
Genre: Nonfiction
Grammar: Commands and Exclamations
Spelling: Long Vowel Digraphs - Long a is sometimes spelled ai, ay
Long e is sometimes spelled ee, ea
Long o is sometimes spelled oa, ow
Spelling Words:
clean
agree
teeth
dream
grain
coach
display
window
shadow
cheese
peach
braid
Sunday
float
thrown
Math
Place Value
Reading and Writing Numbers through 999
Adding Two-Digit Numbers
Subtracting Two-Digit Numbers
Rounding Numbers to the Nearest Ten and Hundred
Religion
Saint Ignatius of Loyola, a person who cared for God's creation
All of nature is part of God's creation.
Describe ways that creation reflects God's beauty and love.
Define apostle, Apostles' Creed, creed.
Explain that we know God through his word.
Reflect on God's presence, invitation, and our response.
Identify practical ways to act on God's invitation in everyday living.
Mass on Friday.
Social Studies
Chapter 6, Lesson Two - Making Money Choices
Identify ways of earning, spending, and saving money.
Analyze a simple budget that allocates money for spending and saving.
Analyze information by summarizing.
Identify examples of civic organizations and explain how they serve the common good.
Understand how businesses operate in the U.S. free-enterprise system.
I am again asking that you take a little time to check the class Wish List link before you go shopping this week. If there is something on the list that you could help with, we would certainly appreciate it. Thank you in advance!
Best regards,
Mrs. Murphy
"Be it known to all who enter here that Christ is the reason for this school.
he is the unseen, but ever present teacher in its classrooms.
He is the model for its faculty and the inspiration of its students."