Week of January 25-27

Today marks the halfway point of Trimester 2, which means we are about halfway through third grade!   

Coming up next week:

Spelling:  Students will have 3 more activities next week and the test will be on Friday, January 29.

Reading & Language Arts:  We’re continuing our culture and traditions unit.  Students menus are due January 29th along with their January reading log.

Read to Succeed sheets for Great America tickets are due on or before February 1.

Congratulations to Allison and Jessica who will represent our class in the third grade spelling bee on Wednesday.

Social Studies:  We are on hiatus!!

Science:   We’re continuing the study of matter. We are finishing Lesson 2 and starting lesson 3.

Mrs. Mandru's Math Class:  Our assessment on Unit 4 will be on Tuesday, 1/26.  The pretest/study guide was sent home today.  We’ll then begin Unit 5 on multiplication, division, and area.   Today marks the halfway point of trimester 2; please make sure you’re checking your child’s math grades on line!

Important Dates:

2/2 - Matter Matters field trip (in class)

2/3 - Early Dismissal (11:35 for PV)

Week of January 19-22

We are finished with our second round of MAP testing.  We’ll test one more time in the spring.  

We celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday on Monday.  We talked about this great, peaceful man today.  Enjoy your 3-day weekend in his honor!

Coming up next week:

Spelling:   Students will receive a new list of words on Tuesday. The three activities are die on Friday. The test will be the following week.

Reading & Language Arts:  We’re continuing our culture and traditions unit.  We’re finishing up The Keeping Quilt. by Patricia Polacco and introducing  When Lightning Comes in a Jar, also by Polacco.  

Students should continue working on Menus. They will be due on January 29th.

Tuesday will be our practice spelling bee and Wednesday we’ll compete for a winner and a runner up who will then compete with the other 3rd grade winners.  There is no studying involved with this Bee!!   We truly want our Bee to reflect what our students already know.

Social Studies:  We are on hiatus!!

Science:   We’re continuing the study of matter.  We will begin lesson 2 this week.  If your child still owes $7.50 for the in-school field trip, please send it in as soon as possible.

Mrs. Mandru's Math Class:  We’re continuing Unit 4, focusing this week on fractions and measurement.

Week of January 11-15

MAP testing is next week; Tuesday is reading and Wednesday is math.  Please make sure your child gets a good breakfast and brings a healthy snack to school.  Also, a good night’s sleep is a must!!

Coming up next week:

Spelling:   The Spelling test will be Friday, January15. The students will use the same words and have 3 more activities due on Friday as well.

Reading & Language Arts:  We’re continuing our culture and traditions unit.  We’re finishing up The Keeping Quilt. by Patricia Polacco.  A vocabulary quiz will take place on Monday.  Please make sure your child reads through their vocabulary slides on Classroom (chromebooks.)  

Social Studies:  We are on hiatus!!

Science:   We’re beginning the study of matter.  We’ll be reading and taking notes this week.  We will also have an IN-SCHOOL field trip about Matter. Matter Matters people will come to our rooms and be doing experiments with us on matter. A permission slip will go home today and students will need to bring it back with $7.50 in order to participate.

Mrs. Mandru’s Math Class:  We’re continuing Unit 4, focusing this week on multi-step problems, unit fractions, and comparing and ordering fractions.  There will be a measurement checkpoint on Tuesday.

Important Dates:

1/12 - Reading MAP test

1/13 - Math MAP test

1/15 - Early Dismissal (11:35)

1/18 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Bday - day off!