January 27th - February 3rd

Please accept my apologies for not posting last week as time just got away from me. We have been very busy since we returned from winter break. It is hard to believe that we are about to start the 5th week of this nine weeks.  Thank you so much to those that have sent in glue sticks, clorox wipes and snacks. They are very much appreciated.  Also a big thank you to the parents that have volunteered to help with selling bracelets on Friday  February 3rd. We will be selling bracelets during the lunch period all next week and each third grade class has a day that they will be in charge of the selling. A note went home a week ago about volunteering to help.  Our class will be sharing Friday with  Ms. Williams'class. The students have done a great job making the bracelets this past week for the sale. In the past, we have made between 500 and 700 dollars through this sale.  We use the sale to discuss the social studies concept of running a business. Also as part of this unit, we had  a guest speaker from Chase Bank come and speak to the studnets about money and spending and saving. They enjoyed the speaker and had some great questions.

 As you know, we have had several benchmarks since we returned to school. If you have not seen the slip I sent home with your child's scores, please let me know. If at any time, you would like to meet and review those tests,  I would be happy to set up a time for that to happen.

February 14th is just around the corner. We will be having a class party. I will send home a list this week with the names of each student in the class . I will also include the names of our Specials Teachers in case  you child would like to give them a valentines.  I will provide the student with a bag  to collect their Valentines in. If you have any ideas for what we could do for this party let me know this week.  

WHAT IS GOING ON IN OUR CLASS THIS WEEK

Social Studies : we will continue to make bracelets and also look at the Free Enterprise System and Supply and demand. Our class will sell bracelets on Friday .

Sceince : We will continue to look at Changes to the Land and our focus will now be on rapid changes such as  Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Hurricanes and Landslides

Math :  We will continue to look at area and perimeter and  then go back and  review  multiplication.

Reading: We are looking at Fables this week with a focus on Theme and Plot and seeing the changes the character goes through.
Writng : Working on  revising a personal narrative for word choice. Spelling focus oo or root spec.

Homework

Math - Monday page 88B and Wednesday   All Aboard Sheet
Reading  -  Tuesday -  Inference practice - reading sheet / Thursday - writing - selecting the right word

Reminder they should be reading for 30 minutes a night during the week and for a total of 60 minutes on the weekend and writing down the name of their book in their agenda. Spelling homework is due on Friday.