March 7-12
End of 3rd Quarter
News This Week
End of Quarter
This is the last week of third quarter. Time flies! Students have until Thursday to complete their AR goals. AR reward will be Friday. There is a ½ day Friday. First bell/carline will dismiss at 11:40. There is no school for students on the 14th.
Jeans Day Tuesday
Third grade earned a jeans day on Tuesday to celebrate having the fewest tardies and absences last month. Wear a school shirt!
Bringing Books Home:
Students should have a book each night and be reading with an adult or on their own. Each morning students sit in the gym from the time they arrive until the bell rings and are expected to have a book and be reading. This is 25 minutes of time for some students to improve AR and reading skills!
Remember 1/2 Day - Friday March 11
Studies this Week
Reading:
RI 3.3Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause and effect. Compare and Contrast
Review RI 3.5 Use text features and search tools (key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
Test Information:
Students will complete the Achievement Series Benchmark on Monday (this does not affect their grades in the grade book). Due to this test and the short week, we will test next week on Compare and Contrast & Text Features, most likely on Tuesday.Spelling
Unit 5 Week 3
Vowel sound as in /ball/
New words will be introduced on Monday.
Students should study all 20 words every night.
We will play “sparkle” on Wednesday
- The test will be given on Thursday, March 10.
- You can find the skill at: spellingcity.com/lblackmon
- almost, always, because, straw, drawn, also, author, false, already, flaw, sausage, applause, walnut, lawn
Math
- Rocket Math - Review drill sheet daily.
- Multiplication/Division - Fact family cards are in your child’s folder. They should review these each night. Students will take their weekly drill on these facts on Thursday. All of these drill sheets will be averaged for one grade at the end of the quarter.
- Math Lesson - Expect written homework most nights. Please go over this with your child and check his or her work.
- Addition & Subtraction with higher numbers. We will review strategies used earlier in the year and practice the algorithms for solving with regrouping.
- Objectives: 3.NBT1, 3.NBT2, 3.OA8
Vocabulary
- accuse, clever, coast, delicate, explore, imitate, pierce, rare, symbol, triumph
- Next Test: March 11
Writing
- Opinion Writing
Do You Believe in Leprechauns?
Grammar
- 3.L.4b Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (agreeable/disagreeable, care/ careless). In other words we will be studying prefixes and suffixes.
- Test Friday
Science
- Why Do Plants Grow Fruit? Reproduction
- 3-LS1-1. Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
- 3-LS3-2. Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.
- 3-LS4-3. Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
- 3-LS3-1. Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.
- Test Friday
Social Studies
- Week 14 World Communities weekly; “We Depend on Each Other”
- Weekly Studies Test Thursday
No School - Monday, March 14
Questions for Reading
- How are (these ideas) the same? How are they different?
- Explain the relationship between ___ , ____, and ____ (series of historical events). Use information from the article in your explanation.
- Explain the relationship between ____ and ____ (scientific concepts/ideas). Use information from the article in your explanation.
Important Dates
March
8 - Jeans Day for 3rd Grade
8 - Third Grade Choir Performance at DHS
9 - PreK Registration
11- 1/2 Day Dismissal
End of Q3
13 - Daylight Savings Time
14- No School for Students
18- LifeSouth Blood Drive
Special Snack- $1.50
Volunteer Appreciation
Luncheon
21 - Bus Driver
Appreciation Week
22 - Snow Wizard
25 - Good Friday Holiday