Week of December 16-20

Important:

Last week before two weeks off!

Early Dismissal on Tuesday at 11:00.

3^rd grade goes bowling to Brunswick Zone on Thursday.

Whole school trip to the Tivoli on Friday.

The week we return, we will have MAP’s testing for Reading on Tuesday, January 7 at 8:05. Please make sure your child eats a healthy breakfast that week so they are prepared for the test. The Math MAP’s will be on Friday, January 10.

We have an in school presentation called High Tech High Touch coming to our classroom on Tuesday, January 7 to help us learn more about Matter. Please bring in $7.50 for this.


Please continue to sign your child's assignment books.

Math
We will work with dividing and multiplying by 5’s and 10’s this week. The test will be on Friday, December 20^th.

Spelling
We will not be having a pretest. The students will get 15 holiday words that they will need to use in a story and in cursive. That is what will be graded this week. It is due on Thursday.

Reading
We will continue our Christmas around the world unit. There will be in class presentations on Thursday.  

English
We will be testing Unit 3 verbs on Thursday, December 19^th.

Social Studies
 Modern Day DG test will be on Monday, December 16^th.

Science
We are done with Science.

Have a great weekend!

Week of Decemeber 9-13



Important:

Please continue to sign your child's assignment books.
PV holiday Concert: 12/10 at 9:00

Math
We will stating chapter 6. In this chapter we will be working with multiplying and dividing the numbers 2, 5, and 10. There will be no chapter test; instead on Friday 12/13 we will have a test on all the multiplication and division facts of 2’s. (2X1, 2X2, 2X3 etc.) (2/1, 2/2, 2/3 etc.)

The following week we will be working with 5 and 10’s. We will have a test over 5’s and 10’s on 12/20.

Spelling
We will be on List 13 this week. The Pretest is on Monday and the final test will be on Friday. If your child gets 0,1, or 2 wrong on the pretest they will have 2  challenge activities and the cursive sheet, they have the option to take the test on Friday. If they get more than 2 words wrong, they will have the regular work. (Cursive sheet and two assigned activities)  The homework is due on Thursday.

Reading
We will start a new unit; Christmas around the world. In this unit, students will work in groups and be given a country. They will be doing research on that country and then making a poster to present to the class. We will get to learn all about how other countries celebrate this holiday. This will carry over to the following week.

English
We will continue unit 3 Verbs. We will work on lesson 4-7. The unit 3 verbs test will be Thursday 12/19


Social Studies
 We will continue learning about our Modern Day Downers Grove. The test Modern Day Dg test is scheduled for Monday, 12/16.

Science
We have begun our Chapter 11 Matter unit. Due to the holiday break and the many tests already scheduled, we will not have a chapter test and instead just be quizzed on the open book reviews of each lesson.   

Have a great weekend!


Mystery Blog Question! (this is optional)

·         Bring in your answer to this question on Monday morning for a mint or sticker…

1.    What are the 5 physical properties of Matter?