Ms. Taleb's 3rd Grade Class

This week we will start mid-year testing. We will begin IReady diagnostics on Monday and NWEA Reading on Tuesday. Please encourage your child to try his or her best. Monday is our library day. All students need to return their library books. Friday is a half day due to the end of the card marking. Dismissal will be at 11:45. Our schedule will be slightly off because of testing, but this is what we will be doing when we are not testing.

Math: We will be working with division facts by decomposing numbers. Please practice with multiplication flash cards. Students need to memorize their facts up to 10 by the end of third grade.

Science: We will be taking a short quiz on climate. A study guide will come home on Tuesday. The quiz will be on Thursday.

Social Studies: We will learn about different types of economic activities in Michigan including agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism.

Reading: We will be examining the text structures of sequencing and cause and effect.

Writing: We will be forming research clubs and begin gathering information for our first research report on severe weather.

Students will be bringing their Lansing field trip permission slip home on Monday.

We will be visiting the Michigan Capitol Building and the Historical Museum on February 12th. We will be leaving school at 8 am, therefore, students need to be at school by 7:45 am. We will be returning to school by 3:30 pm.

The cost for the trip is $15 per student and $15 for each chaperone. Money and slips are due by Monday, January 27th. We will not be accepting money or permission slips after that date. 

/scr/ /shr/ /spr/ & /thr/

1. scroll
2. throw
3. shrank
4. spring
5. sprain
6. scream
7. thread
8. shrimp
9. sprint
10. throat
11. hazards
12. tourism
13. economic
14. decompose
15. severe

1. Math lesson 3 
2. Spelling – 3 times each 
3. Zearn – complete 1 lesson 
4. Read 20 minutes – look for text features

1. Read 20 minutes
2. iReady 
3. Zearn 

iReady test Monday

NWEA Reading Tuesday & Wednesday

1. Spelling ABC Order 
2. Read 20 minutes 
3. iReady 
4. Zearn
5. Practice Skip Counting

1. Math lesson 1 
2. Spelling – Left/Right Hand
3. iReady 
4. Zearn 
5. Read 20 minutes

1. Spelling 3 times each 
2. Read 20 minutes
3. iReady (pass 1 lesson)
4. Zearn (finish 1 lesson)

/pr/ /tr/ /fr/ & /dr/

1. drum
2. frying
3. price
4. train
5. track
6. dream
7. frame
8. printing
9. traps
10. trim
11. connection
12. topic
13. factor
14. region
15. resource

Happy New Year! I hope you have had a restful break and that everyone is in good health. I have just checked I-ready and Zearn reports and I’m very impressed with the amount of students who worked over break! Here is our focus for the week:

Math: We are beginning module 3 and will focus on the commutative property of multiplication.

Science: We will focus on climates around the world and differentiate between climate and weather.

Social Studies: We will begin unit 2 which focuses on economics. This week we will study natural resources, capital resources, and human resources.

Reading: We will focus on different ways informational text can be organized.

Writing: We will begin a new unit on informational writing. For this week we will examine informational books and identify parts of good informational writing.