Newsletter--Week of 9/6/16

News from 3F

Week of: September 6, 2016

Reading and Language Arts: This week students will be reading a mystery series called Cam Jansen. With this story, we will continue to focus on story elements and vocabulary. We will also focus on character traits and will continue reviewing making connections: text to text, text to self, text to world. Students should be reading at least 25 minutes for homework every night!

Grammar: The focus this week will continue to be on capitalization. Students will review when to use capitals in their writing. Please encourage your child to reread and make corrections within their daily work and homework.

Writing: We will take a short break from Opinion Writing to learn about our Work on Writing station of Daily 5. In this station, students will have a variety of choices about what they would like to write about. Make sure to ask your student about our Class Journals, Book Cover Stories, and Journal Jots!  

Social Studies: While we continue to study force and motion, this week we will focus on being able to predict the motion of an object. For example, when we look at a boy on a swing, we know that the swing will go back and forth. We will be practicing this skill by conducting several experiments this week!  The vocabulary we have been learning and practicing is listed below for your reference, and in hopes that you will continue practicing these words with your students!

Lesson 1: force, motion, position

Lesson 2: balanced forces, gravity, unbalanced forces

Lesson 3: predict

Math: This week we will continue to learn about multiplication and division. Students will be tested on 2’s and 5’s multiplication and division. We will also begin studying 10’s. While some students are beginning to master their facts, this is not an expectation at this point in the year. Please continue to assist your child as needed.

Dates to Remember:

Wed. Sept. 7- Math Test: 5’s/2’s Multiplication and Division (Some students already completed this test last week!)

Fri. Sept. 9- Scholastic Book Orders Due

**PLEASE NOTE: Weekly newsletters will continue to be posted on our classroom blog. I will send an email reminder each week with the link to access the blog. If you would like a paper copy instead, please let me know! 

Welcome to 3F!!

Welcome third graders! I can't wait to meet each and every one of you! I hope you're ready for a fun-filled year! If you're like me and can't wait to start school, email me and let me know what you're excited for. I'd love to learn a little about you before we meet next week! :-)

I look forward to seeing many of you at the Back-To-School Social on Tuesday and then again on the first day of school!

See you soon!

Mrs. Freckelton

Last Newsletter--Week of 5/23

News from 3P

Week of: May 23, 2016

Reading and Language Arts: Poetry will come to an end this week. We will be putting together our poetry anthology books. Their books are turning out to be fabulous! Thanks for the contribution of your notes for your child. If you still would like to send them in, let me know! ****Students should still be reading at least 25 minutes for homework every night!

Writing: This week in writing, we will be finalizing our narrative stories. J

Science: This week we will wrap up the study of conservation. SCARCE will be visiting tomorrow morning to help demonstrate the process of reusing and recycling! Thanks PTA!!

Math: Students will continue their study of measurement of mass. We will finish up with a quiz this week.   

Dates to Remember:

Mon. May 23-LAST Kindergarten Buddies!

Mon. May 23-ALL library books due

Tues. May 24-SCARCE visit—thanks PTA!!

Wed. May 25-Watermelon Day

**Mon. May 30-NO SCHOOL-Memorial Day

**Tues. May 31-Discovery Day in AM and Field Day in PM

**Wed. June 1-LAST DAY OF 3^rd GRADE! L J

Newsletter--Week of 5/16

News from 3P

Week of: May 16, 2016

Reading and Language Arts: Poetry will continue this week. We will focus on Concrete and Picture Poems. We will also begin compiling our poems into poetry anthologies! These should be finished up sometime next week! ****Students should be reading at least 25 minutes for homework every night!

Writing: This week in writing, we will be continuing our narrative topics and be putting all our pieces together to write our last stories!  Students are required to do a few drafts and lots of additions! J

Science: This week we will focusing on natural resources. We will talk about renewable and nonrenewable resources. We will also be discussing recycling.

Math: Students will continue their study of measurement. We will review inches, ½ inches and ¼ inches. We will then move into metric liquid measurements.

Dates to Remember:

Tues. May 17-Cook’s Night Out at Chipotle! 4:00-8:00pm

** No School on Monday, May 23^rd

Newsletter--Week of 5/9

News from 3P

Week of: May 9, 2016

Reading and Language Arts: Poetry will continue this week. We will focus on Acrostics, Haikus, Cinquain and the I Am poem. ****Students should be reading at least 20 minutes for homework every night!

Writing: This week in writing, we will be continuing our narrative topics and finish up the current story. We will be writing one more story before the end of the year! Students are required to do a few drafts and lots of additions! J

Science: This week we will finish up our study of Earth and its changes. We will be doing a study guide tomorrow and test on Friday.

Math: Students will be testing over distributive property, perimeter and area this week. From there, we will be jumping into our unit of measurement (inches, ½ inches and ¼ inches).

Dates to Remember:

Mon. May 9- Kindergarten Buddies

Thurs. May 12- Franklin Music Concert @ 9:30am

Fri. May 13- Earth’s Changes Science Test

**SCRAPBOOKING If you are able to send in any of the following, I would appreciate it:

·         Letter Stickers

·         PHOTO Tape (this is what we need the most of!)

·         Skinny Scrapbooking Markers or Pens for writing about their time in third grade

·         ANYTHING that would be good for scrapbooking ( fun papers, die cuts)

·         White Cardstock Paper

·         If you would like to send in $$$ instead, I will be doing some shopping to purchase photo tape and other supplies.  

Newsletter--Week of 5/2

News from 3P

Week of: May 2, 2016

Reading and Language Arts: This week students will be continuing with poetry and figurative language. We are excited to have Bill the Poet visit tomorrow to help us write some poetry of our own! Students will also continue to work with nonfiction short passages. With the nonfiction passages, students will be required to find the main idea of each passage and supporting details too! ****Students should be reading at least 25 minutes for homework every night!

Writing: This week in writing, we will be continuing our narrative topics and be putting all our pieces together to write our own stories!  Students are required to do a few drafts and lots of additions! J

Science: This week we will continue our study of Earth and its changes. We will focus on how volcanoes and earthquakes can change the way the Earth looks. We will also introduce the vocabulary: Erosion and Weathering.

Math: Students will continue with perimeter and area. We will also talk about the Distributive Property and how we can use it to solve for the area of a shape.

Dates to Remember:

Tues. May 3-Bill the Poet Visit

Thank you SO much for all of the beautiful flowers today! My day was definitely made brighter by all of your thoughtfulness! 

Newsletter--Week of 4/25

News from 3P

Week of: April 25, 2016

Reading and Language Arts: This week students will begin studying poetry and figurative language. We will also continue to work with nonfiction short passages. With the nonfiction passages, students will be required to find the main idea of each passage and supporting details too! ****Students should be reading at least 25 minutes for homework every night!

Writing: This week in writing, we will be continuing our narrative topic and be putting all our pieces together to write our own stories!  Students are required to do a few drafts and lots of additions! J We will also begin to write our first few poems. We will be completing a Gum Poem and a Color Poem.

Science: This week we will jump into studying Earth and its changes. We will focus on the layers of Earth and how volcanoes and earthquakes can change the way the Earth looks.

Math: We will be starting to study perimeter and area. Students will be working on different shapes and finding the area and perimeter of each shape.

Dates to Remember:

Tues. April 26-CNO at Jersey Mike’s (10am-9pm)

Wed. April 27-Mile Run at Wheaton College Track-11:-11:40

**Please Note: We will still walk to Wheaton College if there is rain; however, in the case of severe rain or storms, the rain date will be Thursday, April 28.