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.