Mrs. Linderman's 3rd Grade

It is our last week before break! This week we have a lot going on!

On Tuesday (the 26th) we have spring pictures. Order forms went home last week so if you would like pictures taken the order forms will need to come in tomorrow.

On Thursday we have our field trip to Lansing! Students need to arrive early because we are leaving at 8:00 in the morning. Thank you to all parents who volunteered to chaperone, from our class we have Edreese’s mom coming! We will be at the field trip all day and will most likely be back to the school around 4:00 p.m. I will be keeping in touch on Class Dojo with updates so make sure you have your app ready and check for my messages.

On Friday at 4:00 after school there is a concert for Madrigal Choir and our McDonald drummers. Parents are welcome to attend!

Our spelling pattern this week is making words plural. Many words go from an -f at the end to -ves. The words this week are:

1.knives

2. geese

3.children

4. scarves

5. wolves

6. loaves

7. revise

8.judicial

9. publish

10. intersecting

11.parallel

Good morning! We continue the March is Reading month festivities this week so keep checking your calendars!

Our spelling words this week are:

pennies

empties

studies

marries

copies

segments

geometry

justice

equality

politics

Green Club is Monday, March 18th after school.

Permission slips are going home this week for our field trip to Lansing. Please make sure you sign them and bring them back  by this Friday, March 22nd. We are in need of chaperones so if you are available please sign up to come with us! You must have an updated ichat on file in the office.

Choir students will be going on a field trip on Friday to the Michigan Opera Theatre.

Mystery Readers continue to pop up throughout the month of March as well! If you would like to read to our class please send me a message on Class Dojo and we can set up a date!

Good morning!

It looks like this week is going to start warming up. Thursday is supposed to be beautiful! I am looking forward to the warm weather!

Our spelling words this week are:

tickle

table

muddle

riddle

giggle

government

common good

narrator

senator

evidence

This week there are “dress up days” for March is reading month. They are as follows:

Monday: Wear a word day

Tuesday: McDonald spirit wear day

Wednesday: Dress like a sea creature

Thursday: Mismatch/crazy hair day

Friday: Pajama day

Welcome to March! This is a lengthy month, but full of lots of learning before we head to break in April!
The spelling words this week are:

upstairs

airplane

repair

explore

anymore

partition

selection

possessive

whole

vegetables

Also, last week we had Marram’s story presented by the brainstormers! Here is a picture of all of the awesome writers!

Hopefully this will be our first full week of February! I’m glad that everyone made it here safe today and hope that no one is without power even with the high winds. We have a few things going on this week.

First, tonight we will have Math Night tonight from 4:30-6:00. There will be different rooms with activities for you to do with your children and there will also be pizza and juice sold.

Second, we are working with fractions in math. This week will will have our mid-module assessment. The students seem to have a pretty good background understanding on fractions so just keep practicing with the homework at home.

Third, the brainstormers are returning this week for an assembly tomorrow morning. They will be presenting stories created by students from our school. There may even be students from our class!

Fourth, there is a PTA meeting on Friday at 8:45. If you are a member and would like to attend they will be meeting in the cafeteria.

Finally, our spelling words this week are:

cashier

carrier

copier

interfere

anywhere

decompose

number bond

reproduce

pollen

stigma

Spelling words this week are as follows:

retire

hire

earth

early

fear

pronoun

contractions

capital resources

empathy

narrative

The following are dates and locations for Parent University Meetings. Feel free to attend any!

It’s already February! Last week was a crazy week with many snow days so we are catching up with our work this week. In Social Studies we have been learning about how Michigan grew and more people came. We will be testing this week and beginning a new unit on the economy of Michigan. In math we are continuing our work with area. In writing we are continuing our opinion pieces on whether or not kids should get prizes for good grades. For spelling, we are working with homophones. We will have a much longer list of words for this week because we are testing both last week’s homophones and this week’s homophones. The list includes:

aunt

ant

blue

blew

eight

ate

waste

waist

weight

wait

there

their

they’re

where

wear

bored

board

plane

plain

flour

flower

There will be no cold words this week, so these are all the words on the test. This week there is a late start on Wednesday. also, the mobile dentist will be here on Friday and then continue next week.

I hope you enjoyed the weekend! This week is the last week of this quarter. Here are the plans for this week.

Our spelling words this week have a silent w- or k- at the beginning of the word. They are:

write

knife

knee

wreck

knew

traits

compliment

suggestion

skip counting

farming

In addition, we are learning about area, how Michigan grew, and we are working on completing our narrative writing.

This week there is a half day for students on Friday. Dismissal will be at 11:45 instead of 3:35.

Also, we are NWEA testing. This week we plan to finish our language usage tests and begin our reading tests. Please stress the importance of these tests with your child. They need to make sure to go to bed early and eat a good breakfast before testing.

It is that time of year again! We will be NWEA testing again the entire month of January. Our first test will start this Thursday, January 10th. Please make sure that everyday, and especially on NWEA days, your child is getting plenty of sleep and eating a good breakfast. This really does help their scores. I will try to remind them in their planners as well.