The Week of December 18th through 21st, 2017

Spelling: List #7  /oi/

toys     annoy     point     noise     boy     broil     joyful     join     soil     

destroy     loyal     avoid     voyage     coins     voice    

Review Words:  fruit     rescue     computer  

Challenge Words:  enjoyable     poisonous

• Spelling Test will be Wednesday, December 20th

Reading and Language Arts:

• We finished watching our movie, Mouse and the Motorcycle and discussed similarities and differences,  
• Most students finished their Mouse and the Motorcycle unit packets.
• Reading skill focus:  inference, prediction, details and conclusions.
• Holiday themed reading activities.

Math:  

• We will not introduce any more new math until the Christmas break is over.  
• Holiday themed math activities.
• IXL practice over the break makes a world of difference if you have time to squeeze it in.

Interim Testing:

We will be doing some testing this week called the Interim Assessment which is like the spring ISAT third graders will take.  This would be a practice and would be helpful for the kids to see what logging in is like and what the test looks like.  This information will help us see how the students are doing academically and will provide some insight on what we need to focus more time on.  If students want to bring snack during this test that is fine as long as it is not something that can spill or needs to be warmed up as we do not have a microwave.

***We have a need for headphones or ear buds.  Please talk with your child about their headphones as some are missing and some don't work any more.  We need them for testing and for chrome book times.  Your child knows if they have headphones and if they do indeed still work currently.  Thank you! 

Homework:

• November Reading Calendar were due Friday, December 1st.  Remember that 400 minutes a month or more receives full credit (100%) in the grade book

• Practice Spelling words from List #7 /oi/ sounds--lists was sent home on Monday, December 11th and the test will be next week on Wednesday, December 20th.  There is also a list at the top of this blog post.
• No math homework this week.

• Christmas Party: Thursday, December 21st from 9:45 am to 11:30 am.

     We need some things for our party and if you can help with any of the listed things below that would be so wonderful and so appreciated! You can email to let me know what you would like to help with:

       **7 adult helpers to help with the center activities. (nothing hard, I promise)

       **29 plain sugar cookies for kids to decorate at one center

       **4 cans of frosting to decorate cookies (red, green, white (we can also use food            coloring).

       **decoration sprinkles, candies, etc for the cookies.

       **29 juice boxes/bags or juice and cups.

       ** paper plates  (29)

       ** paper napkins  (29)

       ** plastic spoons (29)

It will be a lot of fun and we hope some of you can come and help us to keep our party running smoothly.  Thank you so much!

Dates to Remember:  

• Thursday, December 21st:  Class Christmas Party 9:45 am to 11:30 am, our classroom room 121.  
• Christmas Break December 22nd through January 7th.  
• December Reading Calendar due by Tuesday, January 9th, 2018.

****Please remind your child to bring a snack to have at our morning break (10:30 am) since they don't eat lunch until 1:00 pm.

The Week of December 11th through 15th, 2017

Spelling: List #7  /oi/

toys     annoy     point     noise     boy     broil     joyful     join     soil     

destroy     loyal     avoid     voyage     coins     voice    

Review Words:  fruit     rescue     computer  

Challenge Words:  enjoyable     poisonous

• Spelling Test will be Wednesday, December 20th

Reading and Language Arts:

• Continuing our new chapter book, Mouse and the Motorcycle.
• Grammar Rule 12:  A verb tells what is happening to the noun.  Three types of verbs:  action verbs such as ran and went; linking verbs such as am, is, are, was, were; and helping verbs such as will, has, had, have, could, would, should, do, does, did.
• Reading skill focus:  inference, prediction, details and conclusions.

Math:  

• Lesson 5:  Count by units of 7 to multiply and divide using number bonds to decompose.  For example:  We can figure out the product of 7 x 6 by decomposing one of the sets of 7 into 7 x 5 + 7  by solving 

                                    35 + 7 = adding 35 + 5 = 40 + 2 = 42

                                                                      ∕  ∖

                                                                    5    2

• Homework on Monday night.
• Lesson 6:  Using the distributive property as a strategy to multiply and divide using units of 6 and 7.  

                                       5 x 7            3 x 7          (5 x 7) + (3 x 7) = 35 + 21= 56

                                  7  7  7  7  7       7 7 7          so, 8 x 7 = 56       

• Homework on Wednesday night.

Science:  

• Earth's Rotation and Time 
• Who set the first clock?

Social Studies:

• Learning about the 5 regions of the US starting with the Midwest Region.

Homework:

• November Reading Calendar was due Friday, December 1st.  Remember that 400 minutes a month or more receives full credit (100%) in the grade book.

• Math homework on Monday night (lesson 5) and Wednesday night (lesson 6).

• Practice Spelling words from List #7 /oi/ sounds--lists will be sent home on Monday, December 11th and the test will be next week on Wednesday, December 20th.  There is also a list at the top of this blog post.

• We will be doing IXL in class so students will not be assigned IXL for homework but I encourage students to do one to two activities in Math and Language Arts on the days we do not have paper homework to continue practicing their important third grade skills.

Christmas Party: Thursday, December 21st from 9:45 am to 11:30 am.

     We need some things for our party and if you can help with any of the listed things below that would be so wonderful and so appreciated! You can email to let me know what you would like to help with:

       **7 adult helpers to help with the center activities. (nothing hard, I promise)

       **29 plain sugar cookies for kids to decorate at one center

       **4 cans of frosting to decorate cookies (red, green, white (we can also use food            coloring).

       **decoration sprinkles, candies, etc for the cookies.

       **29 juice boxes/bags or juice and cups.

       ** paper plates  (29)

       ** paper napkins  (29)

       ** plastic spoons (29)

It will be a lot of fun and we hope some of you can come and help us to keep our party running smoothly.  Thank you so much!

Dates to Remember:  

• Thursday, December 21st:  Class Christmas Party 9:45 am to 11:30 am, our classroom room 121.  
• Christmas Break December 22nd through January 7th.  
• December Reading Calendar due by Tuesday, January 9th, 2018.

****Please remind your child to bring a snack to have at our morning break (10:30 am) since they don't eat lunch until 1:00 pm.  

The Week of December 4th through 8th, 2017

Spelling: List #6 Silent E

smile     note     skate     cube     plate     arrive     globe     stripe     flame     rose     white

pancake     beware     confuse     become     

Review Words:  though     option     lollipop

Challenge Words:  extreme     escape\

• Spelling Test will be this Friday, December 8th.

Reading and Language Arts:

• Continuing our new chapter book, Mouse and the Motorcycle.
• Grammar Rule 11:  Possessive pronouns tell who or what owns something.  They replace possessive nouns.  For example:  our home, her brother, my best friend, yours, mine, theirs.
• Reading skill focus:  inference, prediction, details and conclusions.

Math:  

• Lesson 3:  Multiply and divide with familiar facts using a letter to represent the unknown. For example:  21 ÷ 3 = n,  n = 7 or  n x 7 = 21. n = 3.
• Homework on Monday night.
• Lesson 4:  Count by units of 6 to multiply and divide using number bonds to decompose.  For example:  24 + 6 = 20 + 10 = 30.

                                                                     ∕  ∖

                                                                  20   4 

• Homework on Wednesday night.

Science:  

• Day, Night and Earth's Rotations.
• Why does the sun rise and set? 
• Who set the first clock?

Social Studies:

• Map skills using the compass rose and longitude and latitude lines. 

Homework:

• November Reading Calendar due Friday, December 1st.  Remember that 400 minutes a month or more receives full credit (100%) in the grade book.

• Math homework on Monday night (lesson 3) and Wednesday night (lesson 4).

• Practice Spelling words from List #6 Silent E--lists will be sent home on Monday, November 27th and the test will be in two weeks on Friday, December 8th.  There is also a list at the top of this blog post.

• We will be doing IXL in class so students will not be assigned IXL for homework but I encourage students to do one to two activities in Math and Language Arts on the days we do not have paper homework to continue practicing their important third grade skills.

****Please remind your child to bring a snack to have at our morning break (10:30 am) since they don't eat lunch until 1:00 pm.  

The Week of November 27th through December 1st, 2017

Spelling: List #6 Silent E

smile     note     skate     cube     plate     arrive     globe     stripe     flame     rose     white

pancake     beware     confuse     become     

Review Words:  though     option     lollipop

Challenge Words:  extreme     escape\

• Spelling Test will be on Friday, December 8th.

Reading and Language Arts:

• Starting our new chapter book, Mouse and the Motorcycle.
• Grammar Rule 10:  A possessive noun tells who or what owns something.  For example:  Kate's backpack, the bees' hive or the men's jackets.
• Reading skill focus:  inference, prediction, details and conclusions.

Math:  We are starting a new unit focusing on multiplication of 6-10.

• Lesson 1:  Study commutativity to find known facts of 6, 7, 8, and 9.
• Using a multiplication table to find commutative property.
• Working with factors to find the product. 
• Homework on Monday night
• Lesson 2:  Apply the distributive and commutative properties to relate multiplication facts 5 x n + n to 6 x n and n x 6 where n is the size of the unit.
• Example:  7 fives has the same answer as 3 sevens + 2 sevens. So, 7 x 5 = 35 as does 3 x 7 + 2 x 7 = 21 + 14 = 35
• Breaking large multiplication sentences down to smaller equations to solve the large number equation.
• Homework on Tuesday night.

Science:  

• Day, Night and Earth's Rotations.
• Why does the sun rise and set? 
• Who set the first clock?

Social Studies:

• Map skills using the compass rose and longitude and latitude lines. 

Homework:

• November Reading Calendar due Friday, December 1st.  Remember that 400 minutes a month or more receives full credit (100%) in the grade book.

• Math homework on Monday night (lesson 1) and Tuesday night (lesson 2).

• Practice Spelling words from List #6 Silent E--lists will be sent home on Monday, November 27th and the test will be in two weeks on Friday, December 8th.  There is also a list at the top of this blog post.

• We will be doing IXL in class so students will not be assigned IXL for homework but I encourage students to do one to two activities in Math and Language Arts on the days we do not have paper homework to continue practicing their important third grade skills.

****Please remind your child to bring a snack to have at our morning break (10:30 am) since they don't eat lunch until 1:00 pm.  

The week of November 13th through 17th, 2017

Spelling:

• Since we will have a week off next week, we will wait on starting a new Spelling list.  We will start list #6 on Monday, November 27th.

Reading:

• Text comparison between a fiction and non-fiction story about school.  Focusing on the part of plot.
• We are reading the book Wonder and doing a comprehension and personal journal packet.

Language Arts:

• We are using a November Packet to cover many grammar and parts of speech activities as well as math activities.  

Math: 

• Students will have math homework on Monday and Wednesday evenings this week.  We will not be doing lessons from our usual math series this week.  We just finished the last lessons in Unit 1 so we will work on an end of unit assessment during the week.  We will work on using number lines in addition, subtraction,multiplication and division. Homework will be over number lines this week.  

•  Math4Today Week 9:  weekly lessons, there are ten boxes covering 6-7 different math skills such as adding two and three digit numbers, subtracting numbers, naming shapes, story problems, using data graphs and beginning multiplication.  We do an assessment on Friday each week over the skills we covered in the weekly math page.

•   There will be homework on Monday and Wednesday.

Snack:  We don't eat lunch until 1:00 pm so I am encouraging everyone to bring a snack for our morning snack break at 10:30 am

Grades:  If you would like to look at your child's grades please use the Vision Charter link on the right side of this page and go to Portal.  If you do not have a username and password please call Amy Bowers at 208-455-9220 or email her at amybowers@visioncsd.org so that she can get that information to you.  This is the only place grades are posted.  Please let me know if you have any questions or any problems using Infinite Campus.

HOMEWORK:

• Math Paper Homework: Monday and Wednesday:  Number Line operations using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
• Reading Calendars: This month we will start the Pizza Hut Reading Coupon program to accompany our reading homework minutes.  October reading calendars were due by Friday, November 3rd. If your child has not returned their reading calendar please do so this week or send me an email with your child's reading minutes.
• IXL homework will be marked with a yellow star and are homework for the nights we do not have paper math homework.  This week students need to complete the 4 starred areas in third grade math on Tuesday and  Thursday.  The link to IXL is on the right side of this blog page and look for the starred assignments which are:
• IXL, In Third Grade Math, under Mixed Operations:
• M.2Complete the addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division sentence
• M.3Multiplication and division facts up to 5: true or false?
• *Students who do their IXL homework will be given 5 points extra credit for completing the starred assignments.   

Dates to Remember:

• November 8th through 16th:  Schoolwide Food Drive to benefit Vision Families.
• The week of November 20th through the 24th:  NO SCHOOL for Thanksgiving Break.

The Week of November 6th through 10th , 2017
Spelling:
     List #5- /oo/ and /u/
fruit     cute     mule     stool     few     rules     new     knew     bedroom     musical     rescue     spoon     computer     moon     perfume

Review words:    height     silent     reply

Challenge Words:  barbecue     suitcase

*Spelling Test #5 on this Friday, November 10th, 2017.

Reading:

• We are reading the book Wonder and doing a comprehension and personal journal packet.

Language Arts:

• We are using a November Packet to cover many grammar and parts of speech activities as well as math activities.  

Math: 

• Students will have math homework on Monday and Wednesday evenings this week.  It is a review of the lesson we will have worked on during Tuesday.  It is important for long term learning to complete the homework after learning new information. We go over the Problem Set page together as a class and they are supposed to bring that home with them to help them remember how to do the problems as well as help parents see how we worked on the problems so that parents can support their child with their math homework.  I give 5 points for each homework and they do add up quickly in the grade book so it is important for practice and for grades to complete and return homework.  I do not grade for correct vs incorrect answers.  We go over the homework in class together the next day to check for understanding and work on any problem areas.
• This week our homework will cover Lesson 18 & 19:  Apply the distributive property to decompose units.

•  Math4Today Week 4:  weekly lessons, there are ten boxes covering 6-7 different math skills such as adding two and three digit numbers, subtracting numbers, naming shapes, story problems, using data graphs and beginning multiplication.  We do an assessment on Friday each week over the skills we covered in the weekly math page.
•   There will be homework on Monday and Wednesday.

Snack:  We don't eat lunch until 1:00 pm so I am encouraging everyone to bring a snack for our morning snack break at 10:30 am

Grades:  If you would like to look at your child's grades please use the Vision Charter link on the right side of this page and go to Portal.  If you do not have a username and password please call Amy Bowers at 208-455-9220 or email her at amybowers@visioncsd.org so that she can get that information to you.  This is the only place grades are posted.  Please let me know if you have any questions or any problems using Infinite Campus.

HOMEWORK:

• Monday, Math lesson #18 and Wednesday, Math lesson #19.
• Reading Calendars: This month we will start the Pizza Hut Reading Coupon program to accompany our reading homework minutes.  October reading calendars due by Friday, November 3rd. 
• IXL homework will be marked with a yellow star and are homework for the nights we do not have paper math homework.  This week students need to complete the 4 starred areas in third grade math on Tuesday and  Thursday.  The link to IXL is on the right side of this blog page and look for the starred assignments which are:
• IXL, In Third Grade Math, 
• N.2 Understanding Parentheses
• G.4 Multiplication facts for 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10: finding the missing factor. 
• *Students who do their IXL homework will be given 5 points extra credit for completing the starred assignments.   

Dates to Remember:

• Thursday, November 9th:  K-5th grades can dress up in their favorite future career outfit.
• November 8th through 16th:  Schoolwide Food Drive to benefit Vision Families.
• The week of November 20th through the 24th:  NO SCHOOL for Thanksgiving Break.

The Week of October 30th through November 3rd, 2017
Spelling:
     List #5- /oo/ and /u/
fruit     cute     mule     stool     few     rules     new     knew     bedroom     musical     rescue     spoon     computer     moon     perfume

Review words:    height     silent     reply

Challenge Words:  barbecue     suitcase

*Spelling Test #5 on next Friday, November 10th, 2017.

Reading:

• We will finish our book, Journey to the Center of the Earth, on Monday.
• Start Daily 5 reading rotations.

Language Arts:

• We are using an October Packet to cover many grammar and parts of speech activities as well as math activities.  

Math: 

• Students will have math homework on Monday and Wednesday evenings this week.  It is a review of the lesson we will have worked on during Tuesday.  It is important for long term learning to complete the homework after learning new information. We go over the Problem Set page together as a class and they are supposed to bring that home with them to help them remember how to do the problems as well as help parents see how we worked on the problems so that parents can support their child with their math homework.  I give 5 points for each homework and they do add up quickly in the grade book so it is important for practice and for grades to complete and return homework.  I do not grade for correct vs incorrect answers.  We go over the homework in class together the next day to check for understanding and work on any problem areas.
• This week our homework will cover Lesson 16: Use the distributive property as a strategy to find related multiplication facts and Lesson 17:  Model the relationship between multiplication and division.

•  Math4Today Week 4:  weekly lessons, there are ten boxes covering 6-7 different math skills such as adding two and three digit numbers, subtracting numbers, naming shapes, story problems, using data graphs and beginning multiplication.  We do an assessment on Friday each week over the skills we covered in the weekly math page.
•   There will be homework on Monday and Wednesday.

Snack:  We don't eat lunch until 1:00 pm so I am encouraging everyone to bring a snack for our morning snack break at 10:30 am

Grades:  If you would like to look at your child's grades please use the Vision Charter link on the right side of this page and go to Portal.  If you do not have a username and password please call Amy Bowers at 208-455-9220 or email her at amybowers@visioncsd.org so that she can get that information to you.  This is the only place grades are posted.  Please let me know if you have any questions or any problems using Infinite Campus.

HOMEWORK:

• Monday, Math lesson #16 and Wednesday, Math lesson #17.
• Reading Calendars: This month we will start the Pizza Hut Reading Coupon program to accompany our reading homework minutes.  October reading calendars due by Friday, November 3rd. 
• IXL homework will be marked with a yellow star and are homework for the nights we do not have paper math homework.  This week students need to complete the 4 starred areas in third grade math on Tuesday and  Thursday.  The link to IXL is on the right side of this blog page and look for the starred assignments which are:
• IXL, In Third Grade Math, 
• Understand Multiplication:  E.8 Write multiplication sentence for number lines.
• Multiplication Skill Builders:  F.6  Multiply by 5.
• *Students who do their IXL homework will be given 5 points extra credit for completing the starred assignments.   

Dates to Remember:

• Tuesday, October 31st:  School-wide Novel:  Journey to the Center of the Earth dress up day!  Dress as a character from the book.  
• November 2nd and 3rd:  Parent Teacher Conferences from 3:30-7:00 pm.  Scheduled with the teacher.

The Week of October 23rd through 27th, 2017
Spelling:
     List #4- short and long o

coach     frog     though     vote     block     sold     hollow     own     fossil     cocoa     olive     option     stone     lollipop     oatmeal    

Review words:  sentence     reading     bread

Challenge Words:  telephone     octagon

*Spelling Test #2 on this Friday, October 27th, 2017

Reading:

• Working on elements of stories: plot, setting, characters.
• Our storybook focus story is Finding Winnie.  The true story of Winnie the Pooh.  We will focus on using context clues to understand new vocabulary as well as recalling and summarizing the story.  
• Continuing to read our school book, Journey to the Center of the Earth  and completing our Layers of the Earth booklets.

Language Arts:

• We are using an October Packet to cover many grammar and parts of speech activities as well as math activities.  

Math: 

• Students will have math homework on Tuesday evening this week.  It is a review of the lesson we will have worked on during Tuesday.  It is important for long term learning to complete the homework after learning new information. We go over the Problem Set page together as a class and they are supposed to bring that home with them to help them remember how to do the problems as well as help parents see how we worked on the problems so that parents can support their child with their math homework.  I give 5 points for each homework and they do add up quickly in the grade book so it is important for practice and for grades to complete and return homework.  I do not grade for correct vs incorrect answers.  We go over the homework in class together the next day to check for understanding and work on any problem areas.
• This week our homework will cover Lesson 15:
• Relating arrays to tape diagrams to model the commutative property of multiplication.

•  Math4Today Week 4:  weekly lessons, there are ten boxes covering 6-7 different math skills such as adding two and three digit numbers, subtracting numbers, naming shapes, story problems, using data graphs and beginning multiplication.  We do an assessment on Friday each week over the skills we covered in the weekly math page.
•   There will be homework on Tuesday evening on lesson 15.

Snack:  We don't eat lunch until 1:00 pm so I am encouraging everyone to bring a snack for our morning snack break at 10:30 am

Grades:  If you would like to look at your child's grades please use the Vision Charter link on the right side of this page and go to Portal.  If you do not have a username and password please call Amy Bowers at 208-455-9220 or email her at amybowers@visioncsd.org so that she can get that information to you.  This is the only place grades are posted.  Please let me know if you have any questions or any problems using Infinite Campus.

HOMEWORK:

• Math paper homework(10/24/17)  Lesson 15 on Tuesday evening and due Wednesday morning.
• Reading Calendars: This month we will start the Pizza Hut Reading Coupon program to accompany our reading homework minutes.  October reading calendars due by Friday, November 3rd. 
• IXL homework will be marked with a yellow star and are homework for the nights we do not have paper math homework.  This week students need to complete the 4 starred areas in third grade math on Tuesday and  Thursday.  The link to IXL is on the right side of this blog page and look for the starred assignments which are:
• IXL, In Third Grade Math, 
• Under Addition:  C.7  Add three numbers up to three digits: word problems.
• Under Understanding Multiplication:  E.7  Make arrays to model multiplication. 
• Under Three dimensional shapes:  EE.4 Shapes of every day objects #1
• *Students who do their IXL homework will be given 5 points extra credit for completing the starred assignments.   

Dates to Remember:

• Wednesday, October 25th:  Field Trip to Nampa Civic Center to watch Peter Pan performance.  If you have not done so already, please return your child's permission slip to attend the performance along with $4.  
• Wednesday, October 25th:  Farmstead Corn Maze and Pumpkin Festival for Vision Charter School from 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm
• Tuesday, October 31st:  School-wide Novel:  Journey to the Center of the Earth dress up day!  Dress as a character from the book.  
• November 2nd and 3rd:  Parent Teacher Conferences from 3:30-7:00 pm.  Scheduled with the teacher.