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!