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 THIRD GRADE UPDATE   1-5-09

 

RELIGION – The students will learn that the Apostles’ Creed summarizes what Catholics believe.

 

ENGLISH – We will begin a writing unit this week.  The students will use time-order words to put instructions in step-by-step order.

                                                                          

SPELLING – This week’s words contain the /oi/ vowel sound.

coin            soil             noise          boy             toy              oil

spoil           point           boil             join             joy              foil

         

Review words – are, give

Challenge words – moist, destroy

 

READING – This week’s story is, What Do Authors Do?  The children will learn to follow steps in a process.  They will decode and identify words that contain silent consonants.  Vocabulary words are – authors, difficult, information, libraries, suggestions, manuscript, persistent, publishers, rejection, illustrators, historical societies, and diaries.  Please review them with your child.

 

MATH – We will review the multiplication facts from 0 to 5 for the chapter test on Thursday.  I’ll send a study guide home on Tuesday to help the children prepare for the test.  We will also study 6x6, 6x7, 6x8, 7x7, and 8x8 by learning multiplication stories!

 

SIMPLE SOLUTIONS – Friday’s quiz will cover lesson 57 to 60.   Please check your child’s Simple Solutions homework every night and review any questions he/she misses. Friday’s test comes directly from the daily assignments.

 

HEALTH – We will begin a unit on digestion.

 

FYI – Attached is this week’s oral reading assignment.  At this time, the goal is to have the students reading fluently and without errors at 92 words per minute.

 

Parents, thank you very much for the generous class Christmas gift. I plan to put the gift card to good use!!! Thanks also, for the wonderful Christmas party.  The children had a great time!