The Ritenour Review
2016 - 2017 Third Grade Weekly News
Encyclopedias and Internet Outages
We utilized our lifeline of being flexible this week. As I mapped out our week, I had planned on having a large portion of our week being dedicated to using the Chromebooks in our classroom, doing online research and navigating through some websites we will use this year. Unfortunately, the district's internet did not agree with this plan. In our classroom, the disturbance was minimal and we sidestepped the inconvenience easily, I am sure the older grades were not as thrilled.
As we navigated through an internet-less world for a few days, I did not want to get too far behind on a few topics. In Science, we have been talking about Natural Disasters and we were looking forward to researching the uniqueness of individual disasters; therefore, we call our fabulous librarian and borrowed a school set of encyclopedias. The kids loved them! I am a fan of efficient time use, so it's not my preferred method of research in 2016, but it was fun to share a piece of my K-12 years and see the joy of learning something new from the kids.
Here is a look at our topics for next week:
- Language Arts: We will continue our work on complete sentences and paragraphs.
- Math: We will look at continue to look different strategies for multiplication and division. Our FIRST math test will be on Friday, September 9th.
- Reading: We will work on diving deeper into our texts and finding the meaning and purpose of being a diligent reader.
- Word Study: Next week, we will work on long and short "u" spellings. Please, encourage your child to study the sort words/patterns throughout the week.
Natural Disasters
Weekly Work Folders
Special's Schedule
- Monday: Art
- Tuesday: Wellness **bring/wear tennis shoes
- Wednesday: STEM
- Thursday: Music
- Friday: Library
Upcoming Dates!
- September 8th: PTO Meeting
- September 28th: Jog-A-Thon