Reading Takes You Places READING PARTY:
The next reading party will be on Thursday, October 4th. Please have your completed reading log turned in by Wednesday, Oct. 3rd if you would like to join us. We will be watching a video in the room during lunch. I will provide a treat for the students. They will need to bring a lunch from home or order hot lunch from school. The students who have completed 28 days of reading 20 minutes each day will be invited to join us! Celebrate Reading!
Johnny Appleseed Celebration! We had an "apple-solutely" wonderful Wednesday
as we celebrated Johnny Appleseed's birthday. Our room had a wonderful cinnamon and apple aroma all day as we anxiously awaited the tasting of our homemade applesauce. The students enjoyed making apple glasses and kettle pot hats to wear. Thank you to all of the families who donated supplies to make our celebration complete!October Spirit Days:
The following Friday's will be "Spirit Days" at Prairieview. Please feel free to join the teachers on the following spirit days:
Friday, October 5th: Character Counts Day : Wear Green
Friday, October 12th: Prairieview Day: Wear your school colors or clothes
Friday, October 19th: Crazy Hat Day
Friday, October 26th: Slipper Day
UPCOMING EVENTS:
*Mon. 10/1: Goo, Glob, and Guts in the classroom
*Tues. 10/2: Last Magazine Turn-in Day
*Wed. 10/3: Social Studies: Directions Quiz
Independent Reading Folders Due
*Thurs. 10/4: Reading Party during lunch
*Fri. 10/5: Spelling: List 5 Test
Science: Human Body Chapter Test
*Mon. 10/8: No School: Columbus Day
A LOOK AT OUR WEEK
*Math: This week in math we will continue to work on rounding and estimation. We will not have math on Monday or Wednesday due to the Goo,Glob, and Guts program. The students will have their first checkpoint on Friday, Oct. 5th, covering the first part of chapter 1.
*Science: We will be finishing up our first unit on the human body and 6 body systems. We have spent the last days working in cooperative groups to create life size models of the human bodies with all of organs we have been learning about. A "fill-in-yourself" study guide was sent home on Friday and your child should have their science textbook with them for the weekend. They will be encouraged to bring the book home each day next week to study. The study guide is due Wednesday, 10/3. I wanted to give the students plenty of time to study and prepare for the test on Friday, 10/5. The study guide covers most of what will be on the test. Also, look through your child's science folder in their binder to find graphic organizers on each body system that will help them study. I will be playing review games next week and will go over the correct answers of the study guide on Wed. Our next unit in science will be health. 
*Social Studies: We are continuing to practice and review our cardinal and intermediate directions. The students made their own compass roses and we practiced the helpful saying, Never Eat Soggy Waffles (North, East, South, West). Today we had a scavenger hunt where the students worked in groups and followed directions (written in cardinal directions) to find prizes hidden all over Prairieview by the "social studies Fairy". =) They had a lot of fun following their directions and did a great job! Our direction quiz will be on Wednesday, 10/3. A study guide was sent home today. We will begin studying continents and oceans next.
*Spelling: Next weeks list, unit 5, will be covering words that are plural nouns that end with “y” or vowel + “y”. Continue the great work studying and doing a great job on the weekly tests! There will be a pretest on Monday.
*Reading: We are continuing to apply our reading strategies as we read The Chalkbox Kid. We are also working in our Illinois workbook, practicing with prefix, root word, suffix, and letter sounds. We will continue to work on both areas next week.
*English: We have finished our first unit, The Sentence. The students did a great job on their first English unit in 3rd grade! We will now take a break from the textbook and do a writing unit. We will work on descriptive paragraphs and the writing process. We will apply what we have learned about sentences and grammar as we write using vivid language.
