Grant

The VIP of the week is Grant. Grant likes the color periwinkle, math, and baseball. His favorite month is February, holiday is Labor Day, and animal is a fish. His friends are Noah and Danny. Have a great week Grant!

This week we are finishing our story The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. The kids will be volunteering to read the story and answering questions. They will also decide whether the story actually happened or was it just a dream?

In writing we are finishing our books. Thursday is the last day. We will be sending them to the publisher in the afternoon. Every child gets a free book. If they would like an extra one the price is $15 (plus tax).

In grammar we are working on finding the main idea in a paragraph. Finding the main idea is a difficult thing for the kids to do. So we are doing our best to find the correct answers.

We are not doing science this week because we are devoting the extra time to finishing our books. Hopefully next week we can get back on track and learn all about light.

The most exciting news in our class is that we have a new student teacher, Mr. Bibb. Mr. Bibb will be here every Thursday. At first he will just be observing and later he will take a more active role in the classroom. Be sure to ask your child all about him.

Armando

The VIP of the week is Armando. His favorite number is 9, flower is the sunflower and sport is soccer. He likes Denny's, trucks, adn Christmas. His friend isTaylor. Have a great week Armando!

This week in math we are beginning our unit on geometry. This week we will be learning about geometric solids, geometric shapes, types of lines and circles. The kids will have fun learning all these new things!

In reading we are starting The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. The Garden of Abdul Gasazi is a fun fantasy about a boy who is dogsitting for a neighbor. Unfortunately the dog, Fritz, runs into an off limits garden owned by Magician Abdul Gasazi. As puninshment Gasazi turns Fritz into a duck...or does he. The kids will have to decide if this story really happened to Alan or was it just a dream. Check out this review from Reading Rainbow.

In writing we are beginning to make our books! The kids have written their sports paragraphs (which turned out really well) and now we are copying them into our rough draft books. These books will be out on our desks at Open House later in the year.

We are continuing with suffixes and prefixes in grammar. We won't be doing our science this week because many of us need to do some catch-up work.

Jacob

The VIP of the week is Jacob. Jabob likes the number 88, the color pink, and monkeys. He enjoys baseball, ESPN, and roses. His favorite teacher is Mrs. Nowak. His friends are Lenny, Raymond, Joey, Christian, Noah, and Grant. Have a great week Jacob!

This week in math we are working on the concept of probability. Probability deals with outcomes. This week we will be talking about when outcomes are certain or impossible, and likely or unlikely. The kids usually like this unit because they will get to create their own experiment and possible outcomes.

In reading we are continuing with Raising Dragons. Check out this site to learn more about the story and the author. Thanks to the story, we've been able to learn more about responsiblity and taking care of something.

In writing, we will be using our brains to help our neighbors fix their paragraphs. Sharing brains is the best way to modify, correct, and perfect our writing.

In grammar are beginning to learn about prefixes and suffixes. This week our focus is on prefixes. Prefixes are parts of words that are stuck to the front of words to modify and change the meaning of the word. The kids know a lot of prefixes and hopefully they will soon learn more! If you want to challenge yourself you can go to this game. Be careful- these prefixes and suffixes are very hard!

In science we will begin learning about energy and matter. We will be doing many fun experiments. I can't wait to share them with the kids!

Robel

The VIP of the week is Robel. Robel likes monkeys, soccer, and race cars. He enjoys nighttime, math, and the number 12. His friends are Jacob, Fernando, and Caden. Have a great week Robel!

This week in math we are working on graphing. On Monday we graphed M&Ms- yum! The rest of the week we will be lookin at many different ways we can graph information. We'll look at lines graphs, line plots, grids and more.

In reading we will be working on Raising Dragons. Raising Dragons is a fun story about a family who lives on a farm and then begin to raise a dragon. It's fun to see how a dragon can go from being a pain to being an important part of the family.

In writing we will be continuing our Playing a Sport paragraph. We need to make it perfect and use as much detail as possible. We'll be using these as a basis for our books.

In grammar we are working on homographs. Homographs are words that are spelled the same, can sound the same, and have different meanings. A few examples are can, punch, orange, and read.

In American Histoy we will be finishing our lesson about how a bill becomes a law. Last week we divided into different groups. Some of us were citizens, Supreme Court Justices, Representitives, or Senators. The Representatives have decided on two bills they would like to see become a law. This week they will take them to the Senators who will decide on one bill to make it a law. We had so much fun, the kids keep asking when we are going to finish!

Christian B

The VIP of the week is Christian B. Christian likes the colors, purple, black, and pink, football, and McDonalds. He enjoys October, Wednesdays, and sunflowers. His friends are Lenny, Mohammed, Raymond, Jacob, and Joey. Have a great week Christian!

This week in math we are finishing data collection. We learned how to make tables to sort information and how to answer questions about the data when it's in charts and tables. Now we are starting on graphing. We'll learn how to read a graph, whether it's horizontal or vertical, and how to make a graph. Next week we'll have a delicious graphing assignment.

In reading we do not have a new story. We are taking the second Language Arts Benchmark Exam. This exam will test what we have learned in reading and writing so far this year. It also tests us on skills we haven't learned.

In writing we began a new style called personal narrative. In personal narratives, you don't describe on things, instead you describe a sequence of events. We are writing about a time we played a sport. We've enjoyed hearing other kids reading their paragraphs to us. We find them very interesting.

In grammar we started learning about homophones. Homophones are words that sound the same, are spelled differently, and have different meanings. Such are to, too, two and I, eye. We are making a classbook about many different kinds of homophones.

In American History, we are going to learn all about how a law is made. It will be a lot of fun seeing what law the kids come up with!

Ariana

The VIP of the week is Ariana. Ariana likes math, puppies and Bonafonte Gardens. Her favorite color is pink, holiday is Christmas and sport is softball. Nida and Bryce are her friends. Have a great week Ariana!

This week in math we are still working on division. The kids have been doing a wonderful job. They know their division facts, or know how to find them, like pros.

In reading we are reading the story Dogzilla. Most of the kids have already read Dogzilla, so we are only spending a week on it. Not only are we reading the story, we are creating posters for Dogzilla the Movie. We'll put these posters togerther in a book to share with the rest of the class.

In grammar we are working on synonyms. Synonyms are words that mean the same. One example is small and little. Please work with your child to come up with as many synonyms as possible.

In American History we are learning about the government. On Thursday, the students will learn the three branches of government and why they are important. Next week I will post a picture showing you what they've learned.

Christian H

The VIP of the week is Christian. Christian likes math, cheetahs, and Halloween. His favorite car is a limo, number is 10 and color is red. Daniel is his friend. Have a great week Christian!

This week in math we are continuing with division. We are practicing our facts. We're finding this very easy because we've already learned our multiplication facts.

In reading we are finishing our story Dancing Rainbows. We are even creating our own Native American dances that we will preform on Friday for the other third grade classes.

In writing, we began writing a paragraph about our friends. On Wednesday we will be looking at a partner's paragraph and helping them add more details into their paragraphs.

We finally finished our posters for American History.








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Congratulations to several of our students because they will be a part of the chorus performance on Friday morning. We are really looking forward to listening to them sing!