October 19-23
Week 10 - Second Quarter
News This Week
Field Trip Wednesday: We will leave for our trip at 8:30 and return around 2. It looks as though everyone plans to bring a sack lunch. If students bring electronics, they are theirs to care for and must be school appropriate. A note will go home Tuesday. Be sure to dress for the weather, since we will be outside much of the time. Please send your child to school in their field trip t-shirt. If they did not order one, they should wear a school uniform.
Tests: We will take tests Friday this week even though we have a field trip!
Fall Festival Friday - Please Send Basket Items!
Fall Festival
We make a basket to be raffled from each class. Half of the money made stays in our classroom for supplies. Our basket is a Christmas theme. Items are still needed to help fill the basket. Please send these as soon as possible so our room mom can assemble the basket before Friday. Please contact Nicole at 251-422-5557 with any questions.
Studies this Week
- Skills: Morals and lessons from fables: an example is reading The Boy Who Cried Wolf and learning that you shouldn't tell lies.
- Skills: (RL.3.2) Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths, from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
- Phonics: spl-, squ-, thr-, str-
- Vocabulary: antonyms (using context clues to understand opposites)
Spelling
- Practice spelling and writing words. Visit spellingcity.com/meverette for more practice. The story title is "Tops and Bottoms".
- Words this week: splash, throw, three, square, throat, strike, street, split, splurge, strength, squeak, throne, strawberry, squeeze, squid, squander, arthritis, instrument, strategy
Math
- Multiplication - we are starting with a number of groups and items in each group to really understand what multiplication IS. They seem to be doing very well with this. Memorizing facts is great, but I'm seeing students are weaker in adding and subtracting so we need to master those first!
- Arrays - noticing that area is really multiplication
- [3.OA.1) Interpret products of whole %’s (5X7 as the total # of objects in 5 groups of 7 objects in each).
- Facts - we are working on basic facts. Students should already know addition and subtraction facts to 20 quickly.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary on our reading test will be antonyms. Students need to know how to use the words in a sentence to figure out what the other words mean. They also need to know antonyms mean opposites. The most common mistake is students reading too quickly and picking a synonym.
Writing
We will continue informational writing this week and we are working on responding to questions in writing like the ones on our reading tests.
Grammar
- Regular and Irregular Verbs
- Regular Verbs: verbs ending in -ed
- Irregular Verbs: verbs that change in the past tense - break, broke, broken
Science
- Weather - tools, types, clouds
- Phases of the Moon
Social Studies
- Careers
- Studies Weekly - Rights & Responsibilities
- Students can logon to Studies Weekly at home by going to studiesweekly.com
- Daily Geography
Please Sign and Return Report Card Envelopes
Practice at Home
When reading fiction such as The Magic Hat, The Paper Bag
Princess, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Why Mosquitos Buzz,
One Grain of Rice, Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale, etc., ask
your child:
- Identify the central message (lesson or moral) of the story.
- How does the author share the central message (lesson or theme)?
- Retell the story (beginning, middle, and end) and tell what the author was trying to teach us.
Find details in the story to support their thinking.
When reading with your child and he/she comes to an unknown
word, ask the following:
- Read the sentence and think about what that word might mean.
- What clues can you find in the sentence to help understand or find the meaning of the word?
Important Dates
October
23 - Fall Festival 5-8pm
26 - Red Ribbon Week
26 - Monday- sock it to drugs- wear silly socks
27 - Tuesday-hats off to being drug free-wear your favorite hat
28 - Wednesday-team up against drugs – wear you favorite team shirt
29 - Thursday-don't let drugs mix you up-wear mismatch clothes
30 - Friday-I'm a Jean-ius- wear jeans and a red shirt
27 - Snow Wizard $1.00