Hadden's Happenings

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

Hadden's Happenings

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

Hadden's Happenings

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

Hadden's Happenings

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!