Short and Long e
each
met
meet
tell
rest
feet

Sight Words:

own
hurt
carry
keep
fall

Content Words:

push
pull
force
finally

Students will have a quiz on Friday.  They will need to be able to label the five Great Lakes and the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan.

Sight Words: full, about, six, long, cut

Content Words: region, symbols, addition, difference, sum

Short and long 0: poke, rock, mop, below, lock

Yesterday your child brought home a study guide on clock vocabulary.  We will have a quiz on the vocabulary on Friday.

Here is what was on the study guide:

Minute hand– tells how many minutes
Hour hand– tells the hour
Half past-30 minutes past the hour
Quarter to– 15 minutes before the hour
Quarter after– 15 minutes after the hour
60 minutes in an hour
30 minutes in 1/2 an hour
15 minutes in a quarter hour

Math– In math this week we will continue to work on telling time to the nearest minute.  We will also be learning about elapsed time.  Later in the week we will begin learning about and working with graphs.

Social Studies– We will begin this week learning about cardinal directions (north, south, east, west) then will be finding and labeling Michigan’s peninsulas and the Great Lakes on a map.

Writing- Students are working on writing personal narratives.  Students are learning to begin their writing with an interesting hook to get their reader to want to keep reading the piece of writing.

Spelling-

The words for this week are:
Hot Words- Short and Long /i/
bit
stick
will
ice
polite
pie

Sight Words
got
hot
pick
hold

Content Area Words
hour
minute
Dearborn
Michigan
Lakes

Tuesday September 21 is Chef’s Choice on the lunch menu.  First choice will be nachos and cheese.  Second choice will be peanut butter and jelly.

We will be having a very informative third grade parent meeting on Friday September 18th at 10:40-11:25 in Ms. Shalhout’s room (room 206).  We will discuss classroom procedures, Geer Park procedures, and homework.  I look forward to seeing you there.

Short and long a:

lane
ate
trap
tape
can

Sight words:

if
ten
try
only
far

Content area words:

north
south
east
west
location

Yesterday the students did a team building activity where they had to build a pyramid out of cups. They could not touch the cups with their hands. They had to use a rubber band and yarn to move the cups.  The students worked together to build their pyramids.

I hope everyone is having a great summer!  I am looking forward to a new school year!  Here are some supplies that you will need this year:

~2 reams of copy paper
~pencil case or pouch
~dry erase markers
~crayons
~colored pencils
~hand held sharpener with lid
~hand sanitizer
~hand soap
~Kleenex
~5 notebooks (different colors if possible)
~1 composition notebook
~5 folders (different colors if possible)
~scissors
~Clorox wipes (non- bleach)
~pencils and erasers
~glue sticks (3-4)

Thank you!