Newsletter--Week of 3/21

News from 3P

Week of: March 21, 2016

Reading and Language Arts: This week students will continue to look at different types of narrative stories. We will also be reading some nonfiction short passages and doing comparing/contrasting. **Students should be reading at least 25 minutes for homework every night!

Grammar: We will be taking a quick look at what syllables are and how to break up words into multiple syllables.

Writing: This week in writing, we will be discussing different ways to begin our narrative stories. Please ask your child about their favorite way. We will also talk about dialogue and how you use it in our writing! Students will choose their first narrative piece and begin to practice our new ideas.  

Science: This week we will be finishing up the study of weather. Students will be reviewing and taking their test tomorrow.

Math: This week we will be finishing up our study of Time and taking the test tomorrow. Up after break…Geometry!

Dates to Remember:

Tues. March 22—Weather Test

Tues. March 22—Time Test

Wed. March 23—Really Big Dance Show!—during PE at 9:40

Wed. March 23—Kindergarten Buddies

Fri. March 25—NO SCHOOL

Week of March 28-NO SCHOOL! Happy Spring Break!

Newsletter 3/14

News from 3P

Week of: March 14, 2016

Reading and Language Arts: This week students will be reading a variety of narrative stories and finding out what narrative elements are. **Students should be reading at least 20 minutes for homework every night!

Grammar: We will be continuing to work on simple and compound sentences, and we will try to use them in our writing.

Writing: This week in writing, we will be brainstorming ideas for our first narrative piece. We will focus on a ‘slice’ of a story, meaning a small chunk of time.   

Science: This week we will be finishing up our storm projects and beginning to review for our weather test. Students will complete their study guides and prepare for the test NEXT week.

Math: This week we will be continuing to work on time. The focus will be elapsed time and reviewing what we have worked on so far! We will have a test next week.

Dates to Remember

**NEXT WEEK-Wed. 3/23-Really Big Dance Show during PE, at 9:40!

**As we approach Spring Break, I'd love for some students to write about an activity that they do during the week off! These will be future blog posts as well! 

Newsletter--Week of 3/7

News from 3P

Week of: March 7, 2016

Reading and Language Arts: Students will be working on writing about their famous inventor. **Students should be reading at least 25 minutes for homework every night!

Grammar: We will be working on simple and compound sentences. Students will also be incorporating these sentences into their inventor informational writing.

Writing: This week in writing, we will be finishing up our inventor writing.  

Science: This week we will be jumping into our weather projects. Students have chosen a storm of interest. They will be gathering information about these storms and finding pictures and information at home as well. We will be using this information in Library next week to create Green Screen presentations!

Math: This week we will continue our study of time. We will work with telling time to the hour, 15 min, 10 min, 5 min and 1 minute increments. We will also start working with elapsed time.

Dates to Remember:

Fri. Mar 11- Report Cards go Home

Newsletter--Week of 2/29

News from 3P

Week of: February 29, 2016

Reading and Language Arts: Students will be choosing a famous inventor and writing and informational paper about the person, what CAUSED them to create their invention and the EFFECT it had on society. **Students should be reading at least 25 minutes for homework every night!

Grammar: We will be reviewing conventions and good third grade sentences. Students will also be incorporating these sentences into their inventor informational writing.

Writing: This week in writing, we will be taking the information we gathered on an inventor and writing an informational paper about their life.  

Science: This week we will be jumping into the study of weather. We will focus on tools that are used for weather and we will also be assigning weather groups to do in-school projects on specific storms.

Math: We started our time unit last week! This week we will begin to review time to the hour, 15 min, 10 min and 5 minute increments.

Dates to Remember:

Tues. March 1—Friday Schedule

Tues. March 1—PACE Reading Test-PM

Wed. March 2—PACE Math Test-AM

Thurs. March 3—Read Across America Celebration (info to come)

Fri. March 4—NO SCHOOL-Teacher Institute Day

Fri. March 4—Jamboree!! J (5-8pm)

**Book Orders will come home today--due this Friday! J

Newsletter--Week of 2/22

News from 3P

Week of: February 22, 2016

Reading and Language Arts: Our focus this week will continue to be cause and effect. We will be interviewing a classmate about their lives! Students will then use this information for a writing project. **Students should be reading at least 20 minutes for homework every night!

Grammar: We will finish up dictionary skills by making our own dictionary entry and compiling it into a 3P dictionary.

Writing: This week in writing, we will be taking the information we gather from a classmate and writing an informational paper about their life.  

Science: This week we will be concluding our talk about the water cycle! Towards the end of the week, we will be testing! Watch for the study guide a review materials to come home today.

Math: This week we will review all types of graphs! We will have a test on graphing as well. Next up…..TIME!

FINAL WEEK: Jamboree Donations: A HUGE thank you to those you have donated items for our Ice Cream Social Basket! If you are planning on donating, please do so by Friday.

Dates to Remember:

Tues. & Wed. Feb. 24 & 25- Math Test-graphing

Wed. Feb. 24-Kindergarten Buddies

Fri. Feb. 26- Water Cycle Test

Newsletter--Week of 2/16

News from 3P

Week of: February 16, 2016

Reading and Language Arts: Our focus this week will be cause and effect. We will be talking about inventions and famous Illinois historians. This week our focus will be on John Deere, what CAUSED him to create his improved plow and what EFFECT it had on farming. **Students should be reading at least 25 minutes for homework every night!

Grammar: We will begin working on dictionary skills this week! With that, we will also be reviewing the grammar skills we have studied so far this year.

Writing: This week in writing, we will be taking the information we gathered on John Deere and writing an informational paper about him and his life.  

Science: This week we will be starting to talk about water and the water cycle! Towards the end of the week, please ask your child to share the water cycle song with you!

Math: We will continue to work with the three types of graphs: pictographs, bar graphs, and line plots.

Jamboree Donations: A HUGE thank you to those you have donated items for our Ice Cream Social basket! If you are planning on donating, please do so soon.

Dates to Remember:

Mon. Feb. 15- No School President’s Day

Wed. Feb 17- CNO at Chick-Fil-A

**Cougars Reading Forms are due on Friday, February 19

**Recorder Forms are due on Friday, February 19

New York

My name is Max. My family is going to New York on February 13th, 2016.We will see the Empire State Building and The Museum of National hHstory and the Metro Museum and see the biggest park in the world. It's right across from our apartment building in Central Park 🗽⚽️🏒 My favorite sport is soccer!