Mrs. Flick's Facts
November 10, 2017
Important Dates
November
November 13-21 - Book Fair (we visit on Tuesday 11/14 at 9:30am)
November 20 & 21 - 1/2 Days for Students
November 20 & 21 - Parent Teacher Conferences
November 22-24 - Thanksgiving Holiday
November 28 - End of the 1st Trimester
Upcoming Specials
Monday: Day 2 Gym
Tuesday: Day 3 Art
Wednesday: Day 4 Guidance
Thursday: Day 5 Library
Friday: Day 1 Music
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 students learned about multiplication squares and worked on automaticity. We then practiced using the turn-around rule for multiplication (Commutative Property), and explored the multiplication/division facts table. We ended the week adding the "adding a group" and "subtracting a group" multiplication strategies to our mind work!
Building a READING LIFE
In Reading this week, we continued to read mysteries through our read aloud, independent reading, and in book clubs. We tool some time to refocus our mystery reading. We reminded ourselves about how mysteries go, and what the readers of mysteries do. By weeks' end we were raising the level of our "partner talk" by recognizing that when we run into reading trouble we get help from our reading partner who can offer support and strategies.
Word Study
HFSW this week! :)
Regular word study is back next week!
This is the schedule for next week:
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 exploring poetry!
We began by taking a "picture walk" and looking through our writing journal to find ideas and "snippets" of writing that we can use write poetry.
Our goal is to create a poetry anthology so we wrote poems, tried on-the-run-revisions, worked on our word choice, and applied onomatopoeia to our figurative language fun!
We ended the week with some rehearsing, and began getting technical with our poems by exploring line breaks.
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 various patriotic songs in music class this week.
In Library, the students are continuing catalog and library searching skills
In Art, Students are learning about traditional boats and are making a dragon boat out of clay.
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 students worked with the letter s and o. They also reviewed their letters and used time to catch up ;).
TECH
This week, students posted their HFSWords and their example sentences to SEESAW.
We also continued to use Google Classroom to access important anchor charts and information for writing and reading.
Simple Machines
This week in Science we finished up our Simple Machines Unit by reviewing and completing our assessment.
SPIRIT WEAR
Our Spirit Wear sale is still going on! Purchase North Coventry and OJR Wildcats spirit wear through November 22 at http://jdsportonline.com and enter NC2017 under "Online Stores."
THE BOOK FAIR IS COMING!!!!!
Our amazing PTO is bringing the Scholastic Book Fair back to NC next week! We visit the book fair on Tuesday, November 14th 9:30am-10:00 am. If anyone is available (and interested) to help us shop for the half-hour you are welcome to come :).
You can send your child to school with shopping money on Tuesday, or you can have them "window shop" and they can visit the book fair at any non-instructional time that the book fair is open for the rest of the week.