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Week of 4/28/08

We continue to review multiplication and division facts.

Due to CRCT testing, we will not have homework this week.

Due to CRCT testing, we will not have any homework this week in reading or spelling.

WE WILL HAVE A SOCIAL STUDIES TEST ON ECONOMICS ON TUESAY.  PLEASE STUDY THE PACKET BECAUSE THIS TEST WILL BE SHORT RESPONSES LIKE THE LAST ONE.  WE ARE TRYING TO GET THE CHILDREN READY FOR 4TH GRADE.

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT WE STILL HAVE TESTING NEXT WEEK.  ON MONDAY, THE STUDENTS WILL TAKE THE SCIENCE SECTION.  ON TUESDAY, THE STUDENTS WILL TAKE THE SOCIAL STUDIES PORTION OF THE TEST.

TESTING WILL CONCLUDE ON TUESDAY.  WE WILL BE BACK TO OUR NORMAL SCHEDULE ON WEDNESDAY.

PLEASE BE SURE TO HAVE ALL GREYHOUNDS IN BED EARLY ON SUNDAY NIGHT.  MAKE SURE THEY HAVE A NUTRITIONAL BREAKFAST AND A HEALTHFUL SNACK.

THANKS TO ALL THE WONDERFUL GREYHOUND PARENTS FOR HAVING THEIR CHILD IN SCHOOL ON TIME ALL OF LAST WEEK.  THE GREYHOUNDS LOOKED WELL RESTED AND I BELIEVE THEY DID VERY WELL ON THE TEST.

IMPORTANT DATES:

4/28--4/29--CRCT TESTING

5/2/08--PTA PRESALE FORMS DUE AND ALL LIBRARY BOOKS ARE DUE TO OUR SCHOOL LIBRARY.

5/5/08--PTA BOARD BRUNCH

5/3/08- CAMPUS CLEAN UP DAY

5/7/08--FIELD DAY--MORE DETAILS TO COME

5/11/08--Mother's Day

5/23/08--LAST DAY OF SCHOOL

The third grade teachers will be sending out information about the last week of school.

The children are creating a very special surprise for Mother's Day.  We will need four pictures of the children from baby up to now.  Example:  one baby picture, one picture from about age 1 or 2, one picture from 3, 4, or 5, and one picture of now.  These pictures can be with mom or dad and siblings so long as your third grader is featured in the picture. You may want to scan the pictures so that originals are not damaged.

Note to fathers:  We will create something special for you too later on in May for the children to give to you on Father's Day.

Week of 4/21/08

Due to CRCT testing this week, we will not have homework.  We will continue to master division and work on our division facts.

The Greyhounds have been learning long division and doing quite well with it, too!  I'm so impressed with how well it has caught on.  We also have been learning lattice multiplication.  Have your child explain it.  They can now multiply 3 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers.  We will continue to work this week on multiplication facts and division facts.

We will continue to review some language arts skills on Monday and Tuesday.  We will be visiting some websites that reinforce grammar skills. We will not have any homework in spelling or reading this week.

We continue to discuss Economics.  We are learning about goods and services, opportunity cost, and the law of supply and demand.  We are also learning about such terms as barter, producers and consumers, and production.  We will have our first test on this unit on Tuesday.  It will be short answer responses.  Review the study guide.

CRCT INFORMATION:  We are asking the students to get a good night's sleep this whole week.  Please be sure to have a good healthful breakfast in the morning and bring a healthful snack to school, too.  We are also asking for them to get to school on time. TESTING WILL BEGIN PROMPTLY AT 8:00 A.M.

TESTING SCHEDULE:  WED.--READING

                                  THURS.- LANGUAGE ARTS

                                  FRI.--MATH

                                  MONDAY--SCIENCE

                                  TUESDAY--SOCIAL STUDIES

IMPORTANT DATES THIS WEEK:

4/22- TARGET ON TUESDAY INSTEAD OF MONDAY.

4/25/08---TGIF CHUCK E. CHEESE'S @ 3:00 P.M.

4/23--4/29--CRCT (GET PLENTY OF REST AND GET TO SCHOOL ON TIME

Thanks to all the Greyhounds and their parents for the many wonderful birthday gifts, flowers, and cookie cake!  My birthday was extra special!  I'm humbled by the show of love.  This will be a hard group to say good-bye too soon. I can't believe that soon they will be heading off to 4th grade!! 

Week of 4/14/08

HAPPY SPRING BREAK TO ALL! PLEASE KEEP PRACTICING MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION FACTS OVER THE BREAK!

  We will continue to practice for the CRCT. We will take CRCT practice tests this week to get the children prepared for the real thing!  We did very well last week with our Reading/English Language Arts Practice Tests.  We will read a wonderful story about Jo Louis from our reading book entitled When Jo Louis Won the Title.  Our spelling pattern for the week---compound words.

1. daydream

2. moonlight

3. suitcase

4. outside

5. bedroom

6. football

7. airplane

8. birthday

9. homework

10. playground

11. everything

12. sidewalk

13. American

14. saxophone

15. destination

16. paved

17. braced

18. fireplace

19. headache

20. nowhere

We will also practice for the CRCT in Math.  We will explore multiplication and division.  We will continue to look at distributive properties of multiplication along with associative properties, too.  We will take a closer look at partial product multiplication.  Look for the homework packet on Monday night(4-14).

We will begin a new unit in Social Studies.  We will study economics and take a closer look at the three types of resources.  We will also look at practice tests for social studies that prepare us for the CRCT. 

Our habitat presentations were wonderful! We had some technical difficulties, but we worked through them.  The posters are stunning and some of the students improved from our last presentation.  It shows they really worked hard on them!  This will count as a Science grade for this quarter.

IMPORTANT DATES:

4/7--4/11--SPRING BREAK..NO SCHOOL!

4/16--BIRTHDAY BOOK CLUB @ 7:20 A.M.

                   4/21--NO TARGET

                   4/22--TARGET

                   4/23--4/29---CRCT...WE WILL NOT HAVE HOMEWORK DURING THE WEEK OF CRCT.  WE WOULD LIKE ALL THIRD GRADERS TO GET A GOOD NIGHT SLEEP AND HAVE A HEFTY BREAKFAST BEFORE COMING TO SCHOOL!