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.