The Week of September 10th through 14th, 2018

Spelling: List #2 Long and Short E
wrench     hello     yellow    bread     kept     better     sentence     eggshell     medal      metal     remember     reading     peaches     peace     piece
Review words:  east     west     many
Challenge words:  special     beanstalk 
Need to Know words:  unless     fell     express     next     ever

**Test will be on Friday, September 14th.  Spelling tests will be the last day of the school week and a new list will be sent home.

Reading/ELA:

• Asking Questions when reading a text.
• We will continue our vocabulary focus.  Hopefully you will start hearing these words added to their vocabulary!  
• Our words this week are:  assemble     grumble     calculate     elegant     privilege.  
• Our WOW word will be: prearrange
• Our novel is Wonder by R.J. Palacio.  I am reading this aloud to the class.

Math:

• This week our lesson focus will be on Multiplication as Repeated Addition.  
• Homework will be on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. Homework is due the following morning. Five points will be added in the gradebook for homework returned and completed.  Students who forget their homework can log on to enVision which is a link on the right side of this blog page. The homework that would have been on the page is on the website.  I will list the lesson number below under homework. 
• Math Test on Friday over lessons 1-1 through 1-6.  We will review on Thursday.   

Science:

• Scientific Process:  Focusing on identifying the problem, finding a possible solution, trying to solve with the materials provided and solving the problem.  

Chromebooks:  Learning about the different education programs that are linked on our class blog page and practicing math and ELA standards for third grade.

Character Education Focus:  

• Our September focus will be on TRUSTWORTHINESS. 

 Trustworthiness is 

• Being reliable; do what you say you’ll do
• Having the courage to do the right thing
• Being loyal; stand by your friends
• Being honest
• Not deceiving, cheating or stealing

Homework:

• Math homework 
•  Monday, September 10th:  Topic 1, Lesson 1-4 The Commutative property.
• Tuesday, September 11th:  Topic 1, Lesson 1-5 Division as sharing
• Wednesday, September 12th:  Topic 1, Lesson 1-6  Division as Repeated Subtraction.

• Reading homework-20 minutes minimum per evening.  Put minutes on reading calendar which will be due the first week of October.  Reading homework requirement is 400 minutes per month for 100% in grade book.  Starting with the October reading calendar, students who read at least 400 minutes for the month and turn it in the first week of November will receive a free personal pizza coupon for Pizza Hut in addition to their grade.  

***Picture Day is this Friday!  If you would like to order your child's picture order online you can log on to mylifetouch.com and use our school code:  ID118783Y0 for Vision Charter School.

Dates to remember:

• Friday, September 14th:  Picture Day! 
• September 21st:  NO SCHOOL for Teacher In-service
• October 15th through 19th:  NO SCHOOL for Fall Break

The Week of September 4th through 7th, 2018

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 this week!

Reading/ELA:

• Asking Questions when reading a text.
• We will continue 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 15 minutes already!! 

Math:

• Starting our new math curriculum--enVision Math!  
• This week our lesson focus will be on Multiplication as Repeated Addition.  
• Homework will be on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Homework is due the following morning. Five points will be added in the gradebook for homework returned and completed.  

Science:

• Scientific Process:  Focusing on identifying the problem, finding a possible solution, trying to solve with the materials provided and solving the problem.  

Chromebooks:  Learning about the different education programs that are linked on our class  blog page and practicing math and ELA standards for third grade.

Character Education Focus:  

• Our September focus will be on TRUSTWORTHINESS. 

 Trustworthiness is 

• Being reliable; do what you say you’ll do
• Having the courage to do the right thing
• Being loyal; stand by your friends
• Being honest
• Not deceiving, cheating or stealing

Homework:

• Math homework on Tuesday, September 4th,Wednesday, September 5th, and Thursday, September 6th.

• Reading homework-20 minutes minimum per evening.  Put minutes on reading calendar which will be due the first week of October.  Reading homework requirement is 400 minutes per month for 100% in grade book.  Starting with the October reading calendar, students who read at least 400 minutes for the month and turn it in the first week of November will receive a free personal pizza coupon for Pizza Hut in addition to their grade.  

Dates to remember:

• Friday, September 7th:  Scholastic Book orders due.
• Friday, September 7th:  True Blue Character Day!  Dress in blue to participate.
• Friday, September 14th:  Picture Day!
• September 21st:  NO SCHOOL for Teacher In-service
• October 15th through 19th:  NO SCHOOL for Fall Break

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

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!!

The Week of May 21st through 25th, 2018   LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL

➤Reading Calendar: May reading calendars are due.  Please send them to school as soon as possible or email me your child's minutes.

➤SHARE DAYS:  The kids are excited to have share days for the next two weeks!  I will sent a calendar home with students on Monday the 7th so they know when their day will be.  We cannot have any pets from home because of allergy concerns.  Things that teach us about something are really fun!  Please email me if you have any questions about the item your child wants to share.

➤Dates to Remember: 

• Countdown to the last day of school!  We will be doing a fun countdown with special activities each day through the last day of school.  I will email the day before when it is something kids can bring from home otherwise I will be providing the fun activities and supplies.
• May reading calendar is due on Friday, May 18th.  300 minutes is the minimum to receive 100%.
• Summer birthday celebration will be on Monday, May 21st for kids who have birthdays after the last day of school but before the first day of school in August.  If you would like to send treats with your child for this celebration that would be wonderful!
• Thursday, May 24th:  Field Day will be one hour and students will move through several stations of activities.  Comfortable clothing would be best.
• Last day of school is on Friday, May 25th with early release at 1:45 pm.

****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 May 13th through 18th, 2018 

Spelling is finished for this school year.  

➤Reading and Language Arts:

• We finished the book, The Twits and are now reading Chocolate Fever.  I am so proud of how much this class enjoys reading and hearing good stories! 
• Students will do some research in books on the animals they have chosen to focus on. They will have limited and controlled access to research on the chromebooks to gather photos and information only on their animal.  

➤Math:

• Multiplication fluency:  We will practice all of the fact families we have learned from 0 to 12. We will continue with our mad minutes throughout the last two weeks to help challenge our times tables in a fun way!
• Partner Math:  We will be doing math in partner groups this week.  Students will be working on rounding; greater than, less than and equal to; writing numbers and adding 3 digit numbers.  

➤Science:  Talking about animals and their habitats as well as common facts.  

➤Art:  Experiencing the art form of Value with our focus on the artist, Georgia O'Keeffe.  

We created our work on value with an inspiration from O'Keeffe's love of landscapes.  They did a beautiful job! 

➤Character Trait: Citizenship

➤Homework:

• Math homework for the week: Practice with flashcards.  I will send the flashcards from school home with kids who don't have any at home.
• 20 minutes of reading--record on May Reading Calendar. Calendar due on May 18th. Students need to read 300 minutes or more to receive 100%. April calendars were due last week.  Please send to school as soon as you can.

➤IRI Testing will start the first week of May and will go for about 2 weeks.  Third grade students need to read 110 words correctly in a minute to receive a 3 (on grade level).  This will be the last time these third graders will ever take the IRI so we will try our best to end with our best number of words read!

➤Science Fair:
    I sent home the science fair packet before Spring Break as a guide to help you help your child with their science fair project.  The packet does not need to be turned in just your child's finished science fair project covering the scientific process.  Projects can not be stored so please do not send to school until Friday, May 18th.

➤SHARE DAYS:  The kids are excited to have share days for the next two weeks!  I will send a calendar home with students on Monday the 7th so they know when their day will be.  We cannot have any pets from home because of allergy concerns.  Things that teach us about something are really fun!  Please email me if you have any questions about the item your child wants to share.

➤Dates to Remember: 

• Countdown to the last day of school!  We will be doing a fun countdown with special activities each day through the last day of school.  I will email the day before when it is something kids can bring from home otherwise I will be providing the fun activities and supplies.
• Science Fair will be on Friday, May 18th from 3:30 to 7:00 pm. Science Fair Projects are due Friday morning (5/18) at school.  We cannot store any projects so please do not send them before the 18th of May.
• May reading calendar is due on Friday, May 18th.  300 minutes is the minimum to receive 100%.
• Summer birthday celebration will be on Monday, May 21st for kids who have birthdays after the last day of school but before the first day of school in August.  If you would like to send treats with your child for this celebration that would be wonderful!
• Last day of school is on Friday, May 25th with early release at 1:45 pm.

****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 May 7th through May 10th, 2018 

➤Spelling: List #15  /k/

cabin     park     week     crack     rocket     ticket     ache     insect     freckles

collapse     comics     second     quick     camera     octopus

Review Words:  there     their     they're  

Challenge Words: breakfast     continue 

**The spelling words are a part of homework to practice writing and spelling them aloud.

Test for List #15 will  be on Thursday, May 10th.  

THIS IS OUR LAST SPELLING LIST FOR THIS YEAR!

➤Reading and Language Arts:

• Working on our commas packet.
• We finished The Story of Helen Keller and watched the movie.  The kids enjoyed it so much and were trying to sign to each other for days!
• We will start the read aloud, The Twits by Roald Dahl. He is the author of The BFG.
• Students will pick their favorite animal and make a small poster presentation with facts about their animal.  This will be done in class only.

➤Math:

• Multiplication fluency:  We will practice all of the fact families we have learned from 0 to 12. We will continue with our mad minutes to help challenge our time in a fun way!
• Partner Math:  We will be doing math in partner groups this week.  Students will be working on rounding; greater than, less than and equal to; writing numbers and adding 3 digit numbers.  

➤Science:  Talking about animals and their habitats as well as common facts.  

➤Art:  Experiencing the art form of Value with our focus on the artist, Georgia O'Keeffe.  

We created our work on value with an inspiration from O'Keeffe's love of landscapes.  They did a beautiful job! 

➤Character Trait: Citizenship

➤Homework:

• Math homework for the week: Practice with flashcards.  I will send the flashcards from school home with kids who don't have any at home.
• Practice Spelling words from List #15 each night. Test on Thursday.
• 20 minutes of reading--record on May Reading Calendar.  Calendar due on May 18th.  April calendars were due last week.  Please send to school as soon as you can.

➤IRI Testing will start the first week of May and will go for about 2 weeks.  Third grade students need to read 110 words correctly in a minute to receive a 3 (on grade level).  This will be the last time these third graders will ever take the IRI so we will try our best to end with our best number of words read!

➤Science Fair:
    I sent home the science fair packet before Spring Break as a guide to help you help your child with their science fair project.  The packet does not need to be turned in just your child's finished science fair project covering the scientific process.  Projects can not be stored so please do not send to school until Friday, May 18th.

➤SHARE DAYS:  The kids are excited to have share days for the next two weeks!  I will send a calendar home with students on Monday the 7th so they know when their day will be.  We cannot have any pets from home because of allergy concerns.  Things that teach us about something are really fun!  Please email me if you have any questions about the item your child wants to share. 

➤Dates to Remember: 

• Field trip to Nampa Civic Center to watch Beauty and the Beast.  Field trip money ($4 per student) and signed permission slip due by Friday, May 4th. 
• IRI Testing will start the first week of May and go for about 2 weeks.  Third grade students need to read 110 words correctly in a minute to receive a 3 (on grade level).  This will be the last time these third graders will ever take the IRI. 
• No school Friday, May 11th for Teacher Inservice.
• Science Fair will be on Friday, May 18th from 3:30 to 7:00 pm. Science Fair Projects are due Friday morning (5/18) at school.  We cannot store any projects so please do not send them before the 18th of May.
• Last day of school is on Friday, May 25th with early release at 1:45 pm.

****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.