December 3rd-7th

Reminders: 

• Habitat project supplies are due on Tuesday, December 4th. 
• Keep encouraging students to read their AR books and take tests. They are doing a great job and are all pretty close to meeting their goal this nine weeks! 
• Be reviewing all multiplication facts at home with your child. We will have a review test on all of our facts on December 13th. Students need to have their facts memorized. This will help with learning their division facts, and math concepts in 3rd grade and beyond. 

What We Are Learning: 

• Reading: 
• The Harlem Renaissance
• English: 
• Identifying Subordinating and Coordinating Conjunctions 
• Make sure your child memorizes that and, but, or are coordinating conjunctions and although, until, while are subordinating conjunctions.
• Writing: 
• Writing a Tall Tale
• Writing Letters to Santa 
• Spelling: 
• Long o Sound and /ow/ Sound 
• Science: 
• Habitats and Biomes 
• Math: 
• Reviewing all multiplication facts 
• Saxon Lessons 56-59
• Acting out, drawing pictures, and writing number sentences for equal groups stories
• Identifying and drawing lines of symmetry
• Writing division problems in three ways
• Dividing by 10, 7, and 1
• Identifying Quotients 

Important Dates: 

• Monday, December 3rd- Saxon Math Tests
• Tuesday, December 4th- Science Test; Poster Supplies Due 
• Friday, December 7th- Reading and Spelling Tests 

Habitat Project

Science Project

 Habitat Poster

Dear Parents,

            We have been studying ecosystems, food chains, and biomes in Science. To conclude this unit, I would like to do an in-class project with the students the week of December 3rd. This project will count for a test grade. They will need to bring some supplies from home to complete their project. Please have these supplies at school by Tuesday, December 4^th. You may send them early if you’d like.

            Students will create a poster of one of Earth’s habitats that we have discussed in class. Students may choose one of the following habitats: ocean, lake, arctic, forest, rainforest, or desert. I would like students to show a complete food chain on their poster. They will need to label the plants and animals in their food chain. Students will need to print pictures of the animals and plants. These can be black and white or color. You may want to include other plants and animals that are not in your food chain to help fill up your poster. Students will present their projects to the class and tell about their food chain. I would suggest discussing the project with your child at home so they can have a plan before we start working in class.

Materials students need to bring to school for this project:

·        1 Thin White Poster

·        Plants and Animals (printed)

·        We have glue, construction paper, markers, scissors, and crayons in class. Students can bring any additional supplies from home to use if they would like to.

Example of a complete food chain:

                        Acorn, Squirrel, Snake, Hawk

November 26th-30th

Reminders:

• Book orders are due Monday, November 26th. Please do not send cash. You may order online or make a check out to Scholastic. 
• We will be eating at CiCi's Pizza in Columbus after seeing Elf at the Springer Opera House. Please send $7 for your child and you if you are attending this trip. We want to make one payment to get the tax exemption and save time in line. This money is due November 30th. 
• Encourage students to keep reading AR. Everyone is doing a great job so far!
• I will be out on Thursday, November 29th for a doctor's appointment. Please call the school or email me if you need anything. 
• Start reviewing all the multiplication facts with you child at home. We have covered the 0-10 facts. We will have a big review test in December. This test will have 100 facts and students will have 5 minutes to complete it. 

What We Are Learning: 

• Reading: 
• A New Life for Mei 
• English: 
• Concrete and Abstract Nouns
• Writing: 
• Narrative Writing
• We will be working on the AISA Writing Contest piece this week. 
• Science: 
• Finishing Food Chains unit and being Biomes & Habitats 
• Math: 
• Multiplying by 8 
• Saxon Lessons 51-55
• Constructing a Number Line
• Adding 2 Digit Numbers Using the Addition Algorithm 
• Drawing and Measuring Line Segments to the Nearest Half Inch 
• Locating and Naming Points on a Number Line with a Scale of 10
• Estimating Capacity 

Important Dates: 

• Monday, November 26th- Book orders due
• Thursday, November 29th- 8's Fact Test
• Friday, November 30th- Reading and Spelling Tests
• Monday, December 3rd- Saxon Math Tests
• Thursday, December 13th- Review Test on Multiplication Facts 

November 19th-20th

A Few Reminders:

Monday, November 19^th
We will be taking our Unit 2 Reading Assessment. We will not have a new story or spelling words this week.

·       Beth Stephenson will be providing lunch for the class today to celebrate Forrest’s birthday.

Tuesday, November 20^th

·        Our Thanksgiving party will be at lunch. We will be having sub sandwiches.

·        Progress Reports are due today.

Field Trip to the Springer Opera House

·        This trip is scheduled for December 11^th. After the play, we will eat lunch at CiCi’s Pizza in Columbus. Please send $7 for lunch for your child and you if you are attending the field trip with us. I will turn in a check to CiCi’s when we arrive and they will not charge us tax. Please turn in this money by Friday, November 30^th.

Book Orders

·        Scholastic book orders are due Monday, November 26^th. You may order online or send a check with your order to school. Please do not send cash and make checks out to Scholastic Book Clubs.

November 12th-November 16th

Reminders: 

• Progress Reports will go home this week. Students should be half way to their AR goal at this time. Please sign and return these to school as soon as possible. 
• Monday, November 12th is a school holiday. Enjoy the long weekend!
• I will be out on Thursday, November 15th for a doctor's appointment. Mrs. Pam will be subbing. Please contact the office or email me if you need anything. 

What We Are Learning: 

• Reading: 
• Einstein Anderson and the Hurricane Hoax 
• Grammar: 
• We will be reviewing skills covered throughout this unit. There will not be a grammar assessment on Friday. 
• Writing: 
• Informative Writing
• Spelling: 
• Review Words from Unit 2
• There will not be a phonics assessment this week. 
• Science: 
• Food Chains 
• Math: 
• 4's Multiplication Test 
• 8's Multiplication Facts
• Completing a Multiplication Table 
• Saxon Math Lessons 49-50
• Finding Perimeter
• Subtracting a Number from 10
• Making a Shape for a Given Perimeter 

Important Dates: 

• Monday, November 12th- No School 
• Tuesday, November 13th- 4's Test
• Wednesday, November 14th- Saxon Math Tests
• Thursday, November 15th- Animal Classification Test (Science) 
• Friday, November 16th- Reading and Spelling Test
• This week's reading test will only be vocabulary and comprehension. 

November 5th- November 9th

Reminders: 

• Field trip money for the Springer Opera House is due Monday, November 5th. There are no more available parent tickets at this time. 
• Please encourage students to keep reading AR. They are all capable of meeting their goals. 

What We Are Learning: 

• Reading: 
• Hot Enough to Fry an Egg
• English:
• Subject, Object, and Possessive Pronouns
• Writing: 
• Informative Writing
• Science: 
• Finish Animal Adaptation Unit
• Begin Animal Classification 
• Math: 
• Multiplying by 4
• Saxon Math Lessons 46-49
• Reading a thermometer to the nearest degree Fahrenheit
• Identifying the freezing and boiling points of water and normal body temperature on the Fahrenheit scale
• Using comparison symbols (greater than, less than, equal to) 
• Identifying horizontal, vertical, and oblique lines
• Finding perimeter
• Spelling: 
• /oo/ Sound, Homographs, Multiple Meaning Words

Important Dates: 

• Monday, November 5th- Saxon Math Tests
• Thursday, November 8th- Science Test
• Friday, November 9th- Reading, Spelling Tests
• Monday, November 12th- Veteran's Day, No School 
• Tuesday, November 13th- 4's Multiplication Test