Yesterday I sent home the permission slip for our third grade field trip to Lansing.  The trip is on Friday, April 13.  We will be leaving Geer Park at 8:00 and returning at about 4:30.  Students will need to be at school by 7:45 that morning.  We will be visiting the Michigan Historical museum for half of the day and the capitol building the other half of the day.  We have spend most of the year learning about Michigan’s history and our next unit will be on government.  Students will need to bring a bagged lunch.  The cost of the field trip is $5.  Chaperones are needed. If you are able to join us, please let me know.

We are having a classroom reading contest.  Students brought home a paper with a picture of a fish on it today.  For every 10 minutes that they read at home, they can color one scale on the fish.  When the fish is completed, please sign their paper.  Do not sign the paper if they didn’t read!  Students can get more fish from me if needed.  They can turn in fish as they are completed.  All fish are due on Friday, March 23.  The top 3 students who read the most will receive a patch tag.

/air/ & /ore/

1.stairs
2.  airplane
3.  pair
4. explore
5. repair
6. store
7. upstairs
8. ignore
9.fair
10.hair

Content Area Words

11. copper
12. iron
13. mining
14. pollen
15. petals

1.  messier
2. cashier
3. earlier
4. anywhere
5. flier
6. where
7. carrier
8. interfere
9. copier
10. crier
11. parallel
12. rectangle
13. trapezoid
14. pentagon
15. triangle

Students will be presenting their social studies projects on Friday morning in the cafeteria.   They will need to dress up as that time period on Friday.

1. hire
2. earth
3. learn
4. retire
5. early
6. fire
7. heard
8. earn
9. search
10. fear
11. angle
12. rhombus
13. vertex
14. lumber metaphor

1. care

2. stare

3.  fare

4. dare

5. bare

6. share

7. spare

8. aware

9. hare

10. square

11. plant

12. farming

13. cycle

14. polygon

15. simile

The Math A Thon will be Friday, March 2.  Students will be taking addition/ subtraction and multiplication.  There are 50 problems on each test.

To reach mastery, students need 100% accuracy without time constraints.

To reach advanced mastery, students need close to 100% accuracy within the time limit.  for addition/subtraction they need to complete it in 4 minutes or less.  For multiplication, they need to complete it in 5 minutes or less.  For these, they can get up to 3 problems wrong.

End of Year Expectations–Students must get a 100% on both tests to receive a patch tag.

This Friday I will be giving the students the math test for this unit. Don’t worry, it wasn’t graded!  It is on measuring to the nearest half inch, line plots, area, and perimeter.  I gave them back the pretest they took in January today. They do not need to do anything to this pretest, just use it as a study guide.  Tomorrow in class we will be going over it together.  The test will be very similar.  Please make sure they bring the pretest back to school tomorrow.