December 17-21

Important Dates:

12/18: Whole school Elf movie at the Tivoli

12/19: Unit 2 Math test

12/20: Spelling test and 3 activities due

12/21: 3rd grade bowling (am), 3rd Grade Movie Marathon (pm), Last day before break

Spelling:

• A new list of words went home.  The test will be on 12/13 THURSDAY and the 3 activities will also be due Thursday.  If you would like to study the words at home with your child, you can open to the Spelling folder and work on some activities on the menu. Please just make sure the activities and menu go back into that folder because we will work on them throughout the 2 weeks!

Reading/English:

• We will be doing some activities with the reading The Night Before Christmas. 

Social Science:

• We are well into our first unit of science. We are trying to answer the big question of how does a floating train work. We are in still in chapter 2 of this unit and will continue after break. 

Math (For families in my math class only):

• We are finishing up unit 2: Multiplication. The test will be on Wednesday 12/19. A study guide went home and is due back on Monday, 12/17. The test is on Wednesday, 12/19.

Have a wonderful weekend and one week and counting!

December 10-14

Important Dates:

12/18: Whole school Elf movie at the Tivoli

12/19: Unit 2 Math test

12/21: 3rd grade bowling (am), 3rd Grade Movie Marathon (pm), Last day before break

Spelling:

• A new list of words will go home Monday, December 10.  The test will be on 12/13 THURSDAY and the 3 activities will also be due Thursday.  If you would like to study the words at home with your child, you can open to the Spelling folder and work on some activities on the menu. Please just make sure the activities and menu go back into that folder because we will work on them throughout the 2 weeks!

Reading/English:

• We will continue our culture and traditions unit. We will be reading The Keeping Quilt and talking about traditions, as well as writing a reader's response. We will create our own class quilt of our own traditions too. 
• We will finish off the week by close reading The Night Before Christmas. 

Social Science:

• We are well into our first unit of science. We are trying to answer the big question of how does a floating train work. We are in chapter two of this unit. We learned all about force and touching and non-touching forces. We are thinking and learning about magnets and how they work to cause a force. 

Math (For families in my math class only):

• We are finishing up unit 2: Multiplication. The test will be on Wednesday 12/19. A study guide will go home on Wednesday, 12/12 and due back on Monday, 12/17.

Have a wonderful weekend and two weeks in counting!