Third Grade News 5-5-08
Monday, May 5, 2008
Dear Parents,
Congratulations to all children who received First Holy Communion this weekend! Our St. Ann teachers, Miss West, Mrs. Horn, and all of the CCD teachers certainly prepared the first communicants for a beautiful celebration on Saturday. They deserve our thanks and congratulations.
Today I have challenged the students to learn the names of all 50 states. They should study them each night. I will give them a test in two weeks that will have the first and last letter of each state. They will fill in the rest of the name. Please encourage them to practice.
This Thursday, May 8, is the date for this year’s Ice Cream Social. The third graders will be singing and playing their recorders as part of the program. The social starts at 6:30 pm.
We will continue to celebrate Mary’s Month by praying a decade of the rosary each day. Eighth graders will lead the school in one decade of the rosary on Wednesday morning. This Friday, May 9, we will attend the May Crowning Mass at 8:15. Please join us as we honor our Blessed Mother together. Please join us!
God bless,
Susan McDonald
Third Grade Goals This Week
Religion: We will study lesson 25, We Profess Our Faith. Check out the website www.faithfirst.com weekly for activities for your child.
Reading: We will continue reading Charlotte’s Web. In “Reader’s Workshop” we will read the sixth story in the unit titled Storytelling. It is called Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and Crab Cakes Later). Students will study sequence and author’s point of view.
Language: We will continue to work on the writing process. In “Writer’s Workshop” we will review simple and compound sentences, colons, conjunctions, interjections, and capitalization. Writer’s Workshop is a time the students will work on reports they write, revise and edit. We will continue to work on our individual choice mini state reports this week. The scripture sentence this week is: God is at work within you, helping you want to obey Him, and then helping you do what He wants. Philippians 2:13. Our vocabulary words are: memories, terrapins, trillion, rescue and buglers.
Spelling Words: Students will have a spelling test with 15 words this week. This week’s words are words that use the same patterns we have studied for the last five weeks. The words are: police, wrote, plunge, huge, quake, seven, shelf, city, stripe, spray, racing, wrestle, buttons, story, and engines.
Math: We will continue to take timed division quizzes. We will finish Data and Probability. We will start fractions and decimals.
Handwriting: All students are practicing writing the letters in cursive using correct form and posture.
Social Studies: We will finish our study Unit 4 with “How have people worked for freedom?” We will continue our mini state report as part of our social studies this week.
Health: We will study the human body and its systems.
P.E.: We will continue kickball this week.