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What’s happening this week in our classroom…..

Reminders:

Tuesday, November 17^th – PTA Meeting/3^rd grade program at 7:00pm

Wednesday, November 18^th – Field Trip, please bring an all disposable sack lunch

Thursday, November 19^th – Library Day

Friday, November 20^th Poetry Café at 9:45am in our classroom

Please check Caraway website for school event reminders

Language Arts:

spelling words: seven, shall, show, six, small, start, ten, today, together, try, warm, above, across, address, ago

Writing Workshop:

·         Expository Writing: “I’m Thankful”paper

·         Learn how to write 3 fully developed paragraphs (intro, body, conclusion)

·         Present papers to class

Reading Workshop:

·         Summarizing informational texts

·         Cause/effect

Science:

·         Natural resources vs. man-made

·         Characteristics of natural resources

·         Recycling and reusing

Math:

·         Multiplication and division strategies

·         Fact families (multiplication and division)

·         10’s, 5’s, 2’s, 4’s multiplication and division

·         Problem solving focusing on the facts listed above

·         Test at the end of the week

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Reminders for the classroom and school:

Tuesday, November 3

 Polling at Caraway

 Report Cards

10:30am

 Flu Mist Clinic @ Caraway

Thursday, November 5

Library Day for our classroom

Tuesday, November 10

 Holiday Photos

Wednesday, November 11

7:45am

 Veterans Day Program

Thursday, November 12

6:00pm

 TAG Referral Parent Meeting

Tuesday, November 17

7:00pm

 PTA General Meeting 3rd Grade Program

Wednesday, November 18

 Thanksgiving Luncheon (3^rd grade field trip)

Week of  November 23-27

All week

 Thanksgiving Break/No School

For the week of November 2^nd – 5^th

Language Arts:

Writing Workshop: We will be completing and publishing our final poetry to get ready for our poetry café.  The students will be making invitations for you, but if you want to save the date, our poetry café will take place on November 20^th at 8:00am.  We hope you can attend.  The children have worked very hard on writing and memorizing a poem for this special day.  After our poetry unit is complete, we will begin writing lessons on expository writing, beginning with “What qualities do you see in expositiory writing?” and “how to create an interest list of topics that you have an interest in.”

Our third grade team has decided to "go back to the basics" for spelling right now.  Our spelling list will consist of commonly misspelled words that students use in their writing almost everyday.  For now, there won't be vocabulary words.  The children will choose 7 words to be used in complete sentences for homework.   Your child will be held accountable for spelling these words in everyday writing from now on.  I'm hopeful this will help with spelling in our classroom. 

Reading Workshop: We are completing our unit on poetry reading and learning how to read poetry and answer comprehension questions.  After we finish, we will begin our next unit on “Non-fiction”.  We will learn the characteristics of non-fiction, learn about Author’s purpose and explore non-fiction features.

Science: This week we will focus on changing states of matter and do a fun experiment on how heating causes matter to change state and finally learn about mixtures.  For our mixtures lesson, I will be sending out a sign-up genius to bring different edible things for this experiment.  If you are able, please sign up to bring something.  The students will be able to eat their experiment for snack if they would like. J  Watch for the sign up to be sent out later this week.  We will do the experiment next Monday.

Math: Now that we have reviewed time to the minute and tackled the hard concept of elapsed time, we are now ready to move into perimeter.  Our lessons will be on “exploring the perimeter of irregular polygons”.  This will extend into next week and we will take our unit test in the beginning of next week.  I encourage you to use ixl to review time, especially the elapsed time section. J

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Reminders for this week:

This week is Red Ribbon Week and the schedule for this week is:

Monday: We are RED-y for Red Ribbon Week (come decked in red)

Tuesday: We have the POWER to make Good Choices (Super Hero Shirt)

Wednesday: We give a HOOT about our health (wear Caraway owl shirt)

Thursday: It’s Crazy to do drugs (Wear crazy hat/socks)

Friday: Wake up drug free (Wear your pajamas!)

Other Reminders:

Wednesday, October 28

All day

 Early Release Day

All day

 PTA Skate Night at Playland Skate Center

Tuesday, November 3

All day

 Report Cards

10:30am

 Flu Mist Clinic @ Caraway

Tuesday, November 10

All day

 Holiday Photos

Learning Targets for this week:

Language Arts:

Poetry:

Read write Diamante poetry

Read and write Couplets

Read and write Quatrains

Free Verse vs. Lyrical Poetry

Idioms

Onomatopoeia

Practice reading poetry and answer questions about the poetry

Science:

Continue our unit on matter and focus this week on solids, liquids, and gases

How do scientists measure, test and record different types of matter?

Take assessment on Matter unit

Math:

Begin unit 5: Applying addition and subtraction to perimeter and time

Telling time to the minute (Times past and to the hour)

Elapsed time problem solving

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For the week of: October 19-23

Reminders:

Library Day on Thursday!

Language Arts

Writing

• We will start our Poetry Unit
• This week we will focus on writing acrostic, diamante and concrete poetry.
• Spelling Vocabulary Words: theme, tone, imagery, speaker and mood. Words and definitions will be sent home on Mondays. Students need to complete their sentences at home. They will keep this paper at home to use as a study sheet for learning the spelling and meaning of each word, as well as how to use it in a sentence correctly.

Reading

• This week we will learn about different poetic structures, how to analyze poetry, identify figurative language and read different poems in class.
• Reading and responding to leveled readers for independent/reading groups.
• The Harvest Birds selection from the Journey's Book. We will not be using our Journey’s book in class due to our poetry unit.  The ready selection will be assigned as homework on Tuesday and students will have until Friday to complete the questions and turn in the yellow comprehension packet. Parents, please be sure to continue to check over your child's work and sign the cover page, especially since we aren’t using the story in class. 

Science

• Properties and State of Matter
• Begin Changing States of Matter

Math

• Complete unit 4 on place value 
• Ordering and comparing numbers
• Find 4 digit numbers on a number line
• Numbers to 9,999 problem solving
• Unit test on Thursday or Friday

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For the week of: October 5th - 9th 

Class Reminders: 
Specials: Art and PE
Please send a snack daily for your child
Thursday: Library Day
Friday: Yellow comprehension books and spelling/voc definitions and sentences due for homework

Writing:

·         Spelling/Voc words: collect, ragged, scrambled, rapidly, continued, sorted, darted, orders

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·         Continue writing our personal narrative

·                     Lesson on avoiding “it” monster

·                     Using strong verbs

·                     Adding dialogue to our writing

·                     If time, work on revising and editing

Reading:

·                      Read Max’s Words  from our Journey’s book

·                     Reading Strategy: Sequencing

·                     Reading and responding to leveled readers

·                     All BAS testing is completed! J Results will be shared during our fall conference

The yellow packet will go home with comprehension questions to answer for the story we are reading. These packets are due back to school on Friday and will count as a homework grade. Parents, please be sure to check over your child's work and sign the cover page.  In addition to the weekly story, an individual book related to the theme will be assigned to your child, in class, based on his/her reading level.  

Social Studies:

·                     Finish our unit of citizenship

·                     The students did a great job on historical research on the computers.  Please look for the print out in the Tuesday folders. 

·                     Reflection on what citizenship means to me using our new adopted consumable workbooks.

·                     Test on this unit at the end of the week.

Math: 

·                     We completed  our rounding/estimating (place value) unit.

·                     Unit test will be in Tuesday folder.

·                     Begin unit on multiplication: Focus on 2’s and 4’s in this unit

·                     Different strategies will be taught for multiplying by 2’s and 4’s

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Reminders:

Tuesday, September 29

All day

 Individual Student Photos

Wednesday, October 7

All day

 International Bike and Walk to School Day

Monday, October 12

All day

 No School/Columbus Day

Thursday, October 15

6:00pm

 Science Night

Thursday, October 22

7:45am

 Coffee and Conversation

Saturday, October 24

4:00pm

 Harvest Festival

Language Arts:

Writing

·         Spelling/Voc words: league, polish, style, pronounce, stands, fans, score, slammed

·         Complete teaching and practicing skills from last week

• Continue writing our personal narrative
• Focus on learning how to show and not just tell with our words to describe the small moment
• Add sensory details
• How to end a personal narrative
• Grammar: plural/singular nouns

Reading

•  Read Roberto Clemente from our Journey’s book
• Reading Strategy: Cause/Effect
• Reading and responding to leveled readers
• Continue BAS testing 

The yellow packet will go home with comprehension questions to answer for the story we are reading. These packets are due back to school on Friday and will count as a homework grade. Parents, please be sure to check over your child's work and sign the cover page.  In addition to the weekly story, an individual book related to the theme will be assigned to your child, in class, based on his/her reading level.  

Social Studies

• Continue our unit of citizenship
• Research a historical figure
• Reflection on what citizenship means to me

Math

• Complete rounding/estimating (place value)
• Unit 3 Math Test
• Begin unit on multiplication: Focus on 2’s and 4’s

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For the week of: September 21^st – 25^th

Upcoming Events/Reminders:

*Specials for this week: M/W/F- Music, T/TH/F- PE

*Please send your child with a snack daily and water bottle

*Please initial or sign your child’s agenda daily for behavior and notes from me

*Spelling/Vocabulary Words: crew, cling, foggy, tide, balancing, stretch, disappears, excitement

*Sept 23^rd – Early Release Day

*Sept 24^th – Library Day (return all library books to school)

*Sept 29^th – Student Photo Day

*Oct 7^th – International Bike and Walk to School Day

*Oct 12^th – No School/Columbus Day

*Oct 15^th – Science Night

Writing:

*Continue writing our personal narrative

*Focus on learning how to show and not just tell with our words to describe the small moment

*Add sensory details

*How to end a personal narrative

Reading:

*Read Pop’s Bridge from our Journey’s book

*Reading Strategy: Compare/Contrast

*Using Venn Diagram

*Reading and responding to leveled readers

*Continue BAS testing (shared during fall conference)

Social Studies/Science:

*Test over Forms of Energy for science

*Election for Student Council (class vote)

*What does a good citizen look like?

*Knowing citizens’ rights and responsibilities

*Making responsible choices

*Being respectful

Math:

*Complete rounding/estimating (place value)

*Begin subtraction with 2 and 3 digits

*Using a strip diagram to understand problem relationships

*Unit 2 Math assessment

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This Week in Our Classroom.....

September 14-18

Language Arts

Writing

• Grammar: Compound sentences
• Personal Narrative Writing: 
• generating ideas,
• zooming in on a small moment, 
• good writers use emotion in their writing
• writing a good lead

Reading

• Spelling Vocabulary Words: customers, raise, figure, afford, earn, contacted, block, spreading ** Words and definitions will be sent home on Monday. Students need to complete their sentences at home. You will keep this paper at home to use as a study sheet for learning the spelling and meaning of each word. Please return completed homework on Friday.
• We will read "Destiny's Gift"
• Our comprehension strategy this week will focus on characters and how they change throughout the story.
• The yellow packet will go home with comprehension questions to answer for the story we are reading. These packets are due back to school on Friday and will count as a homework grade. Parents, please be sure to check over your child's work and sign the cover page.  In addition to the weekly story, an individual book related to the theme will be assigned to your child, in class, based on his/her reading level.  

Science

Forms of Energy - Mechanical, Sound, Light, Heat 

Math

• Continuing with Place Value- Building 1,000
• Rounding and Estimating to the nearest 10 and 100
• Adding 2 and 3 digit numbers
• Problem Solving incorporating these skills

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Classroom blog for the week of Sept 8^th – 11^th

Upcoming Events/Reminders:

*Specials for this week: M/W/F- Art, T/TH/F- PE

*Please send your child with a snack daily and water bottle

*Please initial or sign your child’s agenda daily for behavior and notes from me

*Spelling/Vocabulary Words: jury, convince, guilty, murmur, honest, pointed, trial, stand

*Sept 7^th – No School/Labor Day

*Sept 10^th – Library Orientation and first book check out
*Sept 11th - Grandparents Day Lunch (please RSVP)

*Sept 14^th – Parent Orientation & PTA Meeting (3^rd grade 7:30pm)

*Sept 23^rd – Early Release Day

*Sept 29^th – Student Photo Day

Writing:

* Spelling/Voc introduced on Tuesday (due to school holiday).

* Spelling/Voc test on Friday.  For this week our spelling/voc words are included in our reading story from our Journey’s textbook.

·    *Grammar: Review Statement/Question/Command/Exclamation

·   * Begin pre-writing lessons on writing a personal narrative

Reading: 

·    * Story Focus: The Trial of Cardigan Jones (Journey’s textbook)

·    * Comprehension strategy: Drawing conclusions

·    * Comprehension test on Friday for The Trial of Cardigan Jones

·    * I will start individual reading test – BAS, the results will be shared with you during the fall parent/teacher conference.

·    *On Thursday we have our first library orientation and the children will be able to check out their first books from the library!

Science: 

·    * Focus: Forms of Energy

·    * Exploration of mechanical, sound, light, and heat energy with lots of hands-on centers.

·    * At the end of the week, the students will break into small groups and choose one form of energy to teach the whole class.

Math: 

·   * Complete review of strategies for multiplication for 5’s

·   * Complete review for unit 1 test with partners and go over orally with whole class.

·   * Take unit 1 test: Multiplication strategies for 10’s and 5’s

·   * Begin unit 2: Place Value review to 1,200

The first few weeks of school have been exciting and fun.  There is a big jump between 2^nd and 3^rd grade and it takes some time to master the change.  The hardest transition for third grade is learning to work independently and controlling our talking.  If your child is losing popsicle sticks, please know that more than likely it is due to controlling his/her talking in class.  Although this can take some time for some students to master, I have found that having your support from home is very helpful in getting this under control.  Always know that I’m here to support your child! I have an amazing group of kids this year!