3rd Grade News
August 30 - September 4, 2015
Mrs. Richardson
Finally, we have completed all of the beginning of year
assessments. We can finally get down to business! You will find that students
will bring home a reading book on Monday and Wednesday of each week. On Monday,
they are required to read a story and complete reading skills sheets. On
Wednesday, students should read the story again and complete the selection test
as practice. Homework will be turned in each morning and scored using the
standards based rating scale of 1-4. The other nights, students should get
their 20 minutes of reading practice.
Mrs. Scott
In Math this week, we will begin working on
Addition and Subtraction with Regrouping. The students will build numbers with
base ten blocks and work to “regroup” sets to set the basis for using the
traditional algorithm the following week. Students will also start having math
homework on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Please be sure to look over your child’s
work and talk with them about any questions they may have about their homework.
There is a very informative page, prior to their assigned problems in the math
book that provides great examples. Students have been shown how to label their
notebook paper, write problems neatly, and skip lines between each problem. The
teacher will be checking for these criteria when scoring on a 1-4 progress
scale. Also, please remind your child that it is his or her responsibility to
have their math book in their backpack each day for homework or as a resource
in class.
Mrs. Thornton
Starting last week, your child will receive a 1,
2, 3 on spelling assessments on Friday. Technically, these are practice.
Every 5th week, we will have a standards based assessment, which will be
a mixture of the words they have had thus far. We are keeping all of our
old words in our spelling sorts folder, so we will send those home that week
for you to use as a study guide. Also, I am really pushing proper
handwriting with all students. If they reverse a letter (use a ‘b’ in
place of ‘d’), the word will be counted wrong. Putting capital letters in
the middle of the words and starting a word with a capital letter when it is
not supposed to be, will also cause the word to be counted wrong. By the
time the students are in third grade, they need to be held accountable for
these mistakes. Thank you for your support and all the work you have done
so far to make this school year start off with a BANG!!
Shout Outs!
Congratulations
to the following students for a job well done!
- Breanna Gordy and Addison McGuire had the highest number of Class Dojo points and received a Dojo monster of their very own.
- Benjamin Foley is the Coder of the Week according to Mr. Lemons! Benjamin did 288 lines of coding! Wow! J
Homework may be found in your student's binder.
If you have questions or comments, please send us an email or Class Dojo message.
