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 (3rd grade field trip)
Week of November 23-27
All week
Thanksgiving
Break/No School
For the week of November 2nd – 5th
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 20th 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
