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.