Teacher Turtle

Saturday, August 25, 2018

Week of August 27th through 30th, 2018

We had a great first week!! This class is excited to learn and work together!  It's going to be a wonderful year!!

Spelling: List #1 Long and Short A
mask     track     stamp    stage      grade     they      batch     chance     graph     trade
raise      eight     safety      wrapped      laugh     
Review words:  ramp     crane     flame 
Challenge words:  magical      station  

**Test will be on Friday, September 7th which is in two weeks.

Reading and Grammar:

  • We are enjoying the book Sideways Stories From Wayside School during teacher read aloud time.
  • We have started talking about simple and strong questions to ask during reading text.
  • We will start our vocabulary focus.  Hopefully you will start hearing these words added to their vocabulary!  
    • Our first words will be:  fragile, research, defend, specific, pledge.  
    • Our WOW word will be: rediscover
  • Building our stamina in reading continuously for at least 15 minutes without talking or leaving our spot.  The kids made it 11 minutes already!! 
Math
  • We are going to begin our math unit on Rounding  to nearest 10 and 100.
  • Students will have a page of math homework on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

Science:  
  • We did our first Mystery Science on Friday and thought about what scientist do.  We formulated questions we could ask if we were wondering about something.
Homework: 
  • Math homework on rounding on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.  Homework is due the following day.  
  • Practicing spelling words from list 1.  Test will be in two weeks.
Dates to remember:
  • Friday, August 31st:  NO SCHOOL
  • Monday, September 3rd:  NO SCHOOL
  • September 21st:  NO SCHOOL for Teacher In-service
  • October 15th through 19th:  NO SCHOOL for Fall Break



Sunday, August 19, 2018

The week of August 20th through August 24th, 2018

Welcome to third grade!!  It was so nice to meet you on Friday!  

Many of you brought in your student information pages on Friday but if you are still working on them it would be wonderful to have them turned in on Monday if possible.

Our schedule will be full of reading, math and writing for the first 4 hours of our day.  Lunch will be at 12:33 pm and we will stop and have a snack and a little exercise outside at 9:45 am for 15 minutes.  We will have Music on Monday and Tuesday, PE and Spanish on Wednesday and Technology on Thursday.  On Friday we will do some enrichment time, Art lessons as well as free time.


Please contact me anytime and if there is anything you think would be helpful for me to know please don't hesitate to contact me. If you have not turned in how your child will go home please email me as soon as possible.

I can't wait to see those little faces tomorrow!!