The week of April 3rd through 6th, 2017

➤ Spelling list #11 /s/ and /z/ sounds:
daisy     vase     plastic     zipper     reuse     sense     does     license     closet
season     bicycle     distance     service     classes     yesterday   
  
Review words:  fashion     photograph     enough

Challenge words:  sincerely      citizen
➤ Reading and Language Arts:
          ➦Reading a few more chapters from our class book, Trumpet of the Swan, and answering comprehension questions.  
          ➦Finishing our packet on parts of speech.
          ➦Using time order words to use in our writing.
           ➦Working on third grade reading, language arts and math skills in our morning work.
          ➦Text Structure:  setting, characters, plot, conflict, resolution.
          ➦Choosing a chapter book, on their reading level, to complete a book report using the Story Bag idea as well as making a poster.  


➤Math:
           ➦Reviewing our end of year third grade math assessment as a class. This will take us several days to complete.
          ➦Working on multiplication fact fluency.
           ➦Math facts games.
          ➦Solid shapes -vertices, faces, identifying shape in real life things, using the geometric name for solid shapes such as cylinder, rectangular prism, cube, etc.


Science Fair Information:
The science fair projects are completed at home.  You can use the Science Fair packet that will help outline what to do to complete the project.  Science Fair projects take some time to develop an experiment or investigation.  Projects do not come to school until Friday, May 12th. We don't have the space to store them before that.  The weekly email also has the science fair guide as well as a few videos that help outline the process.  
➤Homework:
           ➦We will have paper homework on Monday and Wednesday.  
           ➦IXL work on Tuesday and Thursday.  Look for the yellow stars. DD.3, DD.4, FF.13, X.3 
          ➦Reading at home or on MyOn and record your minutes read on the calendar. (Choice) 
          ➽March reading calendars are due by April 3rd, Monday.  They are worth 100 points. Please send your child's reading calendar as soon as possible.  April calendars were sent home last week.  Please let me know if you need another copy.

➤Dates to remember:
          ➦Pizza orders can be placed on Tuesday.  $1 for a slice of pepperoni or cheese. Pizza delivered on Wednesday lunch time.
          ➦There has not been any mention about the snack shake reopening.          
          ➦Report cards were sent home last Wednesday.  I just need to verify that you saw your child's report card so if you could send it to school signed or send me an email that you saw the report card that would work great.  I have heard back from many of you.
         ➦We will get to enjoy a live presentation of Stuart Little in the gym on April 6th!
         ➦No School on Friday, April 7th.
➤Snack is every day at 10:30 am.  Please send something small to nibble on so they will have energy to keep working all day.