1-5-17

3rd Grade News

1-5-17

nburg@crestonstmalachy.org

Welcome back to school. I hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Year. I am excited to be back in school. There will be plenty to do until the next break from school in March.

Reading/Language Arts

This week students read "Aero and Officer Mike-Patrol Partners" an informational text about a police officer and his K-9 dog. The comprehension skill focused on author's purpose. Students worked on prefixes of im- and in- as a vocabulary strategy. In grammar students learned about pronoun-verb agreement.  The phonics skill covered vowel plus r sounds.

The lesson 13 weekly assessment have been included in the take home folder.

Math

Third grade continues to learn the multiplication facts. Please practice the facts of zero through ten at home. Students also learned about the Distributive Property of Multiplication. The property states multiplying a sum by a number is the same as multiplying each addend by the number and then adding the products. An example of this is 6 X 7= (6 X 5) + (6 X 2), then 30 + 12= 42, so 6 X 7=42.
  

Science

Third grade is now learning about the solar system. Students will learn about the planets. the sun, the moon, and other objects in the solar system throughout this unit.

Important Dates

Wednesday, January 11th-Mass at 9:15 AM
Friday, January 13th-Spirit Day ($1)
Monday, January 16th-NO SCHOOL (Professional Development)
Wednesday, January 18th-Mass at 9:15 AM
January 19th-PTO Meeting at 6 PM
Wednesday, January 25th-Mass at 9:15 AM
Friday, January 27th-Spirit Day ($1)
Sunday, January 29th-Friday, February 3rd-Catholic Schools Week