Weeks 11 and 12

“It’s okay to not know but it’s not okay to not try.” – Anonymous

Parent Teacher conferences are on 11/16 – Thursday evening and 11/17 – Friday during the day time.  I look forward to meeting with you. If you haven’t signed up for a conference yet, please do so at https://tls.youcanbook.me/

The Turkey Trot is on Monday, November 20th. It would be fantastic if 100% of our class participated in this worthy fundraiser supporting Long Island Cares. It costs $3.00 to participate, and it’s a lot of fun!

The Thanksgiving Feast is on Wednesday, November 22nd.  Please consider volunteering to help make this a huge success.

Math

This week we are beginning chapter 4. We will be multiplying be 2,3,4,5,6, and 10. We will also cover the Distributive Property of Multiplication.  We have Rocket Math homework every day in addition to our regular Practice Book homework. Please review Rocket Math papers every day. Taking the time to memorize multiplication facts in 3rd grade is so important to your child’s success in Math in future grades. Please review them nightly.

 

ELA

We are having our ELA tests on Tuesday, November 21st. They will include Comprehension, Vocabulary, Grammar, and Spelling.

Anchor Text:  The Harvest Birds The genre is Folktale

Comprehension Skills and Strategies

  • Target Skills
    • Conclusion
    • Literal and Nonliteral Meanings
  • Target Strategy
    • Infer/Predict

Target Vocabulary

  • harvest
  • separate
  • ashamed
  • bordered
  • advice
  • borrow
  • patch
  • serious

Vocabulary Strategy

  • Context Clues

Grammar

  • Using Commas

Spelling: itch, wreck, knee, patch, wrap, knot, watch, knife, stretch, write, knew, knock, match, wrong, know, catch, wrinkle, and knuckle.

The students are also working on independent reading and routinely reflecting on their reading in their Reading Notebook. Reading Notebooks are due every week.

Science

We are finishing up investigating solutions to problems.

Social Studies

We have learned about the branches of government, and how both the United States and Mexico are both democracies. We are having a test on pages 30-33 on Thursday.

Religion

We are studying how we learn and use God’s word.  We will also be learning about different tools to help us understand the Bible.   I have also included the link here Third Grade Memory Work and due dates. Our Wednesday test is on Matthew 28:19.

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.  Matthew 28:19

 

TEST and QUIZZES

Wednesday 11/15    Religion Memory Test

Tuesday   11/21    Comprehension, Vocabulary, Grammar and SpellingTest

Wednesday 11/22  Math Quiz

If you have any questions, please email me at [email protected]

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23