Mrs. Flick's Facts
December 15, 2017
Important Dates
December
5-15- Book Collection for the Winter Book Swap
15- NC Color Wars- 3rd grade is BLACK!
22- Holiday Classroom Party 2:00 PM
23- January 1 NO SCHOOL
January
2- School Resumes
15 - MLK Jr. Day- No School
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 continued to solve problems involving area and perimeter, including rectilinear figures! We also learned a fun, helpful area and perimeter game that we used to help us practice. Check out "rugs and fences" along with "shape capture" on the EDM Connect-Ed site to assist with area and perimeter practice as well. We also started to review for our Unit 4 Test coming up on Tuesday & Wednesday the 19th & 20th before break.
Building a READING LIFE
In Reading this week, we continued to read poems and discuss them. We focused on the Author's Craft, and reading for deeper comprehension focusing on stanzas and themes. We also took some time to focus and discuss our "Lighting Up with World with Kindness" activity.
Word Study
No word study next week!
Below is the schedule for when we resume regular word study after the Holiday Break :).
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 to focus on our Informational Writing Unit. We spent time deciding what topics we were experts in and then practiced "teaching" others about our topic. We continued to edit and add to our flash drafts along with focusing on our table of contents. Then we started using our "box and bullets" organization method to help us organize our chapters for our upcoming informational book. We also came up with strategies to help make our informational writing strong and will be using checklists to help us find and set personal writing goals.
Special Areas
In Gym, students are participating in team building activities and games including learning how to make fair team in large groups, and large group soccer as well as Castle Ball.
In Music, students practiced singing in two and three part rounds.
In Library, students are being introduced to Chromebooks and the library catalog Destiny.
In Art, students worked on glazing their dragon boats.
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 on our "loop group" letters.
TECH
We have been posting our everyday kindness to SEESAW.
We used Google Classroom to access examples and guidelines for our informational piece.
Economy
This week in Social Studies we started our mini economy unit learning about goods, services, producers, and consumers. We are each getting a chance act as producers and consumers buying and selling pretend items in class.
Holiday Celebration
It's coming! It's coming!
Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who has already volunteered to send in or come in!
NC Holiday Food Drive
Please consider donating a canned fruit item (3rd Grade) for our annual NC holiday food drive. All items may be donated through the 19th! Thank you and we always greatly appreciate your donations!
Happy Holidays!