Newsletter--Week of 10/26

News from 3P

Week of: October 26, 2015

Reading and Language Arts: This week third grade will be breaking up into chocolate novel groups. Students will be reading Chocolate Fever, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the Chocolate Touch. Within these novels we will be working on the following: character traits, comparing/contrasting characters, themes of chapters and novels and inferencing and citing evidence.  This unit will take place for 3 weeks. Please encourage your child to share what happened within their novels each day. **Students should be reading at least 25 minutes for homework every night!

Grammar: The focus this week will continue to be adjectives. Encourage your child to begin using adjectives, or sparkle words, in their conversations!

Writing: This week in writing, students will finish their final copy of the Halloween opinion paragraph. Our next prompt will be: Do you enjoy Thanksgiving? Why or why not? This will be the FIRST writing piece where students won’t fill in a graphic organizer. We will have the steps up in the room so that students will be able to see what the process is. We will also keep focusing linking words and conventions (grammar, capitalization, and punctuation).

Science: This week we will talk about the muscular system. We will focus on the difference of voluntary and involuntary. From there we will be filling out a study guide over muscular system and digestive system. The test will be Thursday. J

Math: This week we will focus on using different strategies to solve multi-digit subtraction equations. After learning a few strategies, students will be able to choose the one that works best for them.  

Dates to Remember:

Thurs. Oct. 29- Science Test: Digestive and Muscular Systems

Fri. Oct. 31- Halloween- Students will begin to get ready in their costumes around 1:20pm on Friday afternoon. Please send all costumes etc….to school in the morning (don’t send your child wearing their costume). Please remember to keep any scary/bloody costume pieces at home. The parade will begin at 2:00pm with our classroom party following. Thank you to all our parents and party planners! I know it will be a GREAT party! J