Star of the Week – Gabriel
Fire House Trip – Thursday 10/19 – Chaperones – Please let me know if you are planning on coming to our trip on Thursday. You MUST have taken care of your chaperone paper work in the office if you plan on going. This takes several days to process, so it may be too late if you have done it already.
Late Start Wednesday 10/18 – school starts at 9:35
Picture Day Friday 10/20
Conferences – There were 3 people that never signed up for conferences in November. I have assigned you times. I will be sending out reminder slips the week of conferences in case you don’t remember your time.
Word Study Spelling Activity – I have opened up the Word Study Spelling activity this week. Students may try it at home if they would like. I have given an example for the word flood. I will explain it more on Monday if they don’t understand.
Book Orders – I have decided to extend the book order deadline until Monday. Remember ordering books helps our classroom get new books. You may order online or send in your orders by Monday morning. Remember CASH ONLY or check made directly to Scholastic.
To order online, go to the Web address below and enter our class’s personalized user name and password:
www.scholastic.com/parentordering Our class activation code is: J6YNP
Book-it – I keep forgetting to send home the book it calendars. I will send these home on Monday. Please color in all the days you read during the month so far. Book it Calendars will be returned at the end of the month for a Pizza Hut Free Pizza Coupon.
Halloween Party – there will be a Halloween party in the gym on 10/31. More details to follow.
Science this week we are working on friction. The mystery is called How could you go faster down a slide? We are working with different materials to determine which have the least and greatest friction.
Social Studies this week we are moving from Land forms to Water forms. We will also be discussing how the Great Lakes were formed.
Math – We have started unit 2 – we will be working on the following standards in Math:
3.OA.8 Solve two-step word problems using the four operations. Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding.
3.OA.9 Identify arithmetic patterns (including patterns in the addition table or multiplication table), and explain them using properties of operations. For example, observe that 4 times a number is always even, and explain why 4 times a number can be decomposed into two equal addends.
3.NBT.2 Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.
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