Third Grade News 11-9-09
Monday, November 9, 2009
Dear Parents and Guardians,
We will have a Veteran’s Day celebration on Tuesday, November 10 at 2:00 pm. Please join us as we honor our heroes who sacrifice for all of us. If you are a military service member, we hope that you can participate. To help show our support to both our troops and Veterans, Student Council is sponsoring a “Show your colors day”. This means that students should wear patriotic socks, shirts and/or hats with their uniform bottoms tomorrow, November 10th.
Student Council is sponsoring a “Pounds for the Poor” contest. We are hoping to raise at least 200 pounds of food for the Saint Vincent De Paul Food Bank. Each grade will keep track of how many pounds they collect during the next two weeks (November 9th–20th) and the class with the most pounds brought in will win a Hot Cocoa & Cookie Party served by the Student Council Officers.
Our All Souls table continues to grow. The children have brought more pictures of relatives and shared special items they have made. The children may continue to bring items in until the end of November.
God bless,
Susan McDonald
Third Grade Goals This Week
Religion: We will study chapter 8 “We are the Church” and chapter 9 “St. Paul the Apostle.” Check out the website www.faithfirst.com weekly for activities for your child.
Reading: We will continue reading our chapter book, Ramona, Age 8. We will begin our third unit about “Imagination” in our reading book. We will read the story Through Grandpa’s Eyes. In “Reader’s Workshop” we will study the author’s purpose and point of view. We will study compound words, sensory description (adjectives), and base word families. Our dictation sentence is: So too, you also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come. — Matthew 24:44. Our vocabulary words are: carved, burrow, exercises, bow, imitating, and sculpture.
Language: Writer’s Workshop is a time the students will work on stories they write, revise and edit. In “Writer’s Workshop” we will focus on question marks and exclamation points. We will begin our first report this week. We are taking notes about horses and writing them in our report notebook. We will use our notes to write expository paragraphs with complete sentences.
Spelling Words: Students will have a spelling test this week. The words have the long /a/ sound spelled a_e, ai, and ay. They are: flame, blaze, spade, fail, mail, stain, play, away, plate, raise, clay, rain, awake, face, and chain.
Math: We will begin Chapter 4, Measurement. We will use these skills in word problems. Students will work on improving speed subtraction facts.
Handwriting: We will continue learning cursive letters.
P.E.: We will continue obstacle course training this week.
Social Studies: We will study the effect of explorers and settlers on the past and present economy of California.
Science: We will begin to study healthy eating and fitness.