The Week of September 25th through 29th, 2017

Spelling:
     List #3- short and long i

pilot     write     inch     reply     lines     bigger     brick     river     given

silent     fine     whisper     rhyme     iron     height     grade     safety     they

Challenge Words:  multiply      divide

*Spelling Test #2 on Friday October 6th, 2017


Reading:

• We are enjoying our class novel, Charlotte's Web by E.B. White and building or dodecahedron comprehension shape.  
• Our storybook focus story will be Pinduli by Janell Cannon.  We will use this story to focus on vocabulary words, comprehension, describing characters, and adjectives.  

Language Arts:

We will be working on grammar Rule 4 which talks about nouns naming a person, place, or thing.  Some nouns name specific people, places, or things.

• We will also use our Daily Language page to work on correcting sentence errors.  
• We will do some Shurley English jingles and work on the first few lessons dealing with parts of speech.

Math: 

•  Math4Today Week 3:  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.  There will be an assessment each week but this first one will be done together as a class.
• We have two lessons in our Green Math books.  There will be homework on Monday evening for lesson 9 and Wednesday evening for lesson 10.

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

HOMEWORK:

• Students will have math homework on Monday and Wednesday evening.  It is a review of the lessons we will have worked on during those days.  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 9:  Finding related multiplication facts by adding and subtracting equal groups in array models. This lesson is an introduction into the Distributive Property of Multiplication.  For example:
• Lesson 10 will be about modeling the distributive property with arrays to decompose units as a strategy to multiply.  Continuing our introduction to the distributive property of multiplication.  




• Reading Calendars:  September Reading Calendars were sent home at the beginning of the month. They will be due October 2nd and are worth 100 points in the grade book for reading 400+ minutes for the month. If for any reason the calendar gets lost, I can accept a note or email from parents with the number of reading minutes for their child.  I do encourage that the paper itself be turned in at the end of each month to support growing responsibility and accountability for the students whenever possible.  
• 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 onTuesday and  Thursday.  The link to IXL is on the right side of this blog page and the starred assignments are:
• IXL, In Third Grade Math, 
• Under Subtraction:
• D.1 Subtract numbers up to three digits.
• Under Estimation and Rounding:
• P.1  Rounding to nearest 10 or 100 only.
• Under Multiplication Skill Builders:
• F.3  Multiply by 2.
• F.4  Multiply by 3.
• *Students who do their IXL homework will be given 5 points extra credit for completing the starred assignments.   

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.

Dates to Remember:

• Monday, September 25th:  Progress reports will be sent home with your child.  If you have questions please let me know.  Retakes are still on going. We are half way through the first quarter already!
• Monday, October 2nd:  September Reading Calendar due.
• Thursday, October 5th:  Picture Retakes.  Photo packets should be arriving very soon.  If you would like to get your child's picture retaken, the original photo packet will need to be returned on or before October 5th to the teacher.  If you decided to order pictures after seeing the proof, there is a link on the photo page to order.
• Fall Break is October 9th through 13th,2017.
• 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.