Odds and Ends:
*Magazine Drive: Your child received a magazine drive packet this week. If you want to participate in this school fundraiser, the turn in dates are Tues. 9/20, Tues. 9/27, and Thurs. 9/29.
*PE - Soccer test "next" Thursday (study guides will go home Monday)
Intramural Games Permission slips will be sent home on Monday. They are due back by Friday. More information can be found on the PE website.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
*Mon. 9/19: Spelling: List 4 Pretest
*Tues. 9/20: Math: Ch 3 Test
*Thurs. 9/22: Social Studies: Continents and Oceans Quiz
English: DOL #1 Graded Review
*Fri. 9/23: Spelling: List 4 Test
Scholastic Book Orders due: order online or send in check and order to the classroom
A LOOK AT NEXT WEEK:
*Reading:Now we will start to put the reading strategies we have learned to great use while reading various types of literature. We will always be reviewing/using all of the strategies, but for the coming weeks we will highly focus on the strategies of sequencing and summarizing. The students will use basal reading stories, supplemental short stories, and possibly novels to extend their practice of understanding what they read. As a third grade we are really highlighting oral and written responses to what was read and will integrate this throughout. We will also work on an extended response where we use ideas from the text combined with our own ideas to answer a question.
*English: We will work on 6 +1 traits of writing this week as we apply it to our own writing. We will work on 5 paragraph essays soon. We have also begun DOL (Daily Oral Language). We practice "editing" incorrect sentences as we learn about convention rules. A study guide will be sent home on Monday for the quiz on Thurs.
*Spelling: We will work on list 4 words this week. There will be a pretest on Monday. The final test will be on Friday and homework will be due on Friday.
*Social Studies: We will continue to work on continents and oceans. The students did research in the computer lab on a specific continent and will be sharing their facts with the group this week. The graded review on the location and spelling of the continents and oceans will be on Thurs. 9/22. We will study hemispheres next.
*Science: We will begin ch 4: ecosystems later this week.
*Math: We will be finishing up ch. 3 this week. We will work on addition word problems and review concepts. The ch. 3 test will be Tuesday. We will continue to practice addition timed tests this week. They will begin to count for a grade on Friday 9/23.
Have a beautiful fall weekend together with your family!
Mrs. Olsen
