Week of September 29th-October 3rd

We had a great week in third grade! We celebrated Henry's birthday, learned about continents, chose seed ideas in writing, discussed story elements in reading and took our first math and spelling tests!

This week...

Reading 

Last week, we discussed story elements including characters, setting, plot and two important ideas-movement through time and character change. This week we will start focusing on characters. We started a new reading log. This will be turned in each Monday and should record five days of reading. We are continuing out first read aloud-Justin Case-School, Drool and Other Daily Disasters by Rachel Vail. It is a hilarious look at third grade through the eyes of a worrier!

Writing

Last week, students chose "seed ideas" for their personal narratives. We are working on picking "small moments" from their lives to write about. This week, we will work on writing leads and practicing "fast drafts".

Math

We finished up Unit 1 with a test on Friday. We will start Unit 2-Number Sense:Addition and Subtraction on Monday. 

Spelling

This week, students will bring home their spelling homework. The homework is to practice their words each night using Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check. A sheet explaining this will come home Monday. Each Monday, we will have a pretest on a word skill. The first six words on the list will follow that pattern ie. "at". The next four words come from the 3rd grade priority list and from a variety of other sources-their writing, social studies, science, etc. 

Social Studies

We are continuing the geography unit this week.