Week 14

“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” – Maya Angelou

Scholastic book order forms are going home on Monday. The orders are due by Friday, December 7th.  Our class code is GZBYH. And you can use the link scholastic.com/bookclubs to place your order online.

On Tuesday, we are watching the Christmas Assembly for the older students.

Santa Shop is on Tuesday. We are going at 12:40. This is a change from the time listed on the papers that were sent home.

Please make sure you have seen the note from Mr. DeVries regarding costumes. Please help your child review lines for our school pageant.

Math

We are continuing with multiplication in Chapter 5.  Our chapter quiz will be on Tuesday, December 4th. Please take the time to help your child memorize his/her multiplication facts. We have a 3 as a factor test on Tuesday and 4 as a factor test on Thursday.

ELA

We are having our ELA tests on Friday, December 7th. They will include Comprehension, Vocabulary, Grammar, and Spelling.

Anchor Text:  Young Thomas Edison The genre is Biography

Comprehension Skills and Strategies

  • Target Skills
    • Main Idea and Details
    • Sequence of Events
  • Target Strategy
    • Summarize

Target Vocabulary

  • invention
  • experiment
  • laboratory
  • genius
  • gadget
  • electric
  • signal
  • occasional

Vocabulary Strategy

  • Shades of Meaning

Grammar

  • Pronouns

Spelling: talk, cross, awful, law, cloth, cost, crawl, chalk, also, raw, salt, wall, lawn, always, soft, small, often, and strawberry

Science

We are studying push and pull forces.  We are also discussing simple machines.

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 will be on the Matthew 1:21.

You are to give Him the name of Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.   Matthew 1:21

TEST and QUIZZES

Tuesday 12/4   Math Ch 5 Quiz and 3 as a factor

Wednesday 12/5   Religion Memory Test

Thursday 12/6  4 as a Factor

Friday   12/8    Comprehension, Vocabulary, Grammar and SpellingTest

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

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Hebrew 13:8