Mrs. Flick's Facts
December 1, 2017
Important Dates
December
December 1 - PTO Winter Wonderland 6-8 PM
December 7 - NC Winter Concert @ 7 PM
December 8 - PTO Parent Night Out 5-9 PM
December 15 - COLOR WARS (our color for 3rd grade is BLACK...more info. to come :))
December 22 - Classroom Holiday Celebration (...more info. to come!)
December 25 - January 1 - Winter Break
Upcoming Specials
Monday: Day 4 Guidance
Tuesday: Day 5 Library
Wednesday: Day 1 Music
Thursday: Day 2 Gym
Friday: Day 3 Art
Reminders!
-HOMEWORK is very important as it reinforces skills. Please be sure to check that your child has completed their nightly homework.
-Record that Reading!
EACH night the students should be recording their reading time on the November calendar page in their agendas. They know where this page is and should be able to record it themselves. An adult just needs to initial it each night :).
- Please send a snack with your child each day. Please do not send any drinks other than water- juices are sticky when they spill! Thank you! (remember that we are peanut and treenut free)
- Please check and sign your child's planner every night.
Math Updates
In Math this week, we began our unit on Measurement and Geometry. We began by practicing measuring to the nearest half inch and centimeter. The students then explored gathering data and creating line plots, exploring measures of distance, and began the task of reviewing polygons. We ended the week talking about and classifying special quadrilaterals.
Building a READING LIFE
In Reading this week, we began our POETRY unit! The work we do during reading is a direct link to the poetry writing we have been working on. We can now appreciate the literary language, meaning, and poetry formats of the various authors we explore:).
This week we learned about the fact that poems come in many different shapes and sizes, and can rhyme, be about feelings, people, objects, experiences...
We also practices categorizing poetry into those that have a specific rhyme scheme, and those that are written as free verse.
We ended the week by using various poems that portray certain moods and worked to recognize them.
Word Study
Regular word study was this week! Next week will also be a regular word study week. Blue sort is on a two-week cycle.
Monday nights- Students are to sort their words and record them in their notebooks. They are to also record their discovery or rule for the week.
Tuesday and Wednesday nights- Students should sort their words and read them as they sort. They can practice writing them on paper, whiteboards, or typing them. NO WRITTEN homework is required on these nights.
Thursday nights- Students are to ask an adult to quiz them on their words. They write the headers and then record the words as they are called out. The adult should use the notebook to correct the sort and ask the student to practice any words that were spelled incorrectly. This should be completed in the word study notebook in their binder.
The notebook will then be returned to school Friday morning and handed in to me :).
Friday- there will be a test given
This means that before the notebooks are handed in on Fridays there will be...
1. an answer key made of the sort and discovery in class during sort introductions
2. Monday night homework practiced/written sort and discovery.
3. a blind sort and written discovery on Thursday night.
Writing Long & Strong
This week in Writing, we continued compiling our Poetry anthologies! The students are working hard at revising, editing, and illustrating their various poems!
Special Areas
In Gym, students are working on team building activities and games including learning how to make fair team in large groups, and large group (Cone Goal) Soccer as well as Castle Ball.
In Music, Third grade students will be practicing singing in two and three part rounds in music class this week.
In Library, the students are practicing using Destiny and locating information
In Art, Students are learning about traditional boats and are making a dragon boat out of clay.
In Guidance, students just finished a unit on empathy and identifying the feelings of others. Next our unit is on emotion management- managing anger in an appropriate way
Scholastic Book Orders
If you are interested in placing book orders throughout the year from Scholastic, please go to www.club.scholastic.com
and use our class code: LDBK3
Giant Bonus Cards
Giant Bonus Cards are our BIGGEST fundraising source. The link to register Bonus Cards is: http://giantfoodstores.com/aplus/register-card/?_requestid=1157213
Cursive
This week the students continued working in "loop group" learning "b" and "f".
TECH
This week, students again posted their sorts and discoveries to SEESAW.
We used Google Classroom to learn about the 3 Branches of Government. The students explored information about each branch and recorded their answers to various questions.
They also continues to use their google classroom resources to aide them in the revising and editing of their poetry.
Government
This week in Social Studies we continued our Government Unit. We learned about the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches of the Government through the use of Google Classroom activities and notebooking.
Holiday Celebration
Keep an eye out for information regarding our Classroom Holiday Celebration that will take place on Friday, December 22nd!