11-30-17

3rd Grade News 

nburg@crestonstmalachy.org

11-30-17

Reading/Language Arts

This week third grade is reading Tops and Bottoms. In this trickster tale, a clever Hare tricks a lazy bear. The hare plants the crops to "share" with the bear. The hare always ends up with the good parts, and the bear not so good parts. Bear learns a valuable lesson about working hard to reap the rewards you are wanting. The comprehension skill covered theme. The vocabulary strategy focused on idioms. The phonics skills covered homophones and words that end in -le and -er. Students used quotation marks in grammar.

The results of the Unit 2 Benchmark test and lesson 11 weekly assessment have been included in the this week's take home folder. These results are yours to keep.

Math

Third grade has been learning about the process of multiplication. Students have learned about equal groups, repeated addition sentences, and arrays. The students also learned about the Commutative Property of Multiplication (4 X 3=12 and 3 X 4=12). The class was introduced to the factors of 0 and 1 when multiplying. There will be test covering these chapter 3 concepts next week. 

Science

The third grade class continues to learn about ecosystems. Students have studied land ecosystem such as forests, deserts, and grasslands. Also, students have learned about fresh and salt water ecosystems.

Reading Incentive Program

November calendars are due back to school by Thursday, December 7th. Pizza certificates and the month winner will be announced on that day. December calendars have been included in the take home folder. The goal for December remains at 400 minutes total.

Book Order

A book order has been included in this week's take home folder. Orders are due back to school by Friday, December 8th. Orders can be returned to school with cash or a check or submitted online at www.scholastic.com using the class code GRHFQ. This will be the last book order of 2017. If wanting to order books at Christmas gifts, please let me know and I will hold the order at school and let you know when it arrives.

Upcoming Dates
Friday, December 1-Spirit Day ($1)

Wednesday, December 6th-Christmas Program at 6:30 PM

Friday, December 8th-Feast of Immaculate Conception Mass 

Wednesday, December 13th-3rd Grade Mass

Friday, December 15th-Spirit Day ($1)

Friday, December 22nd-NO SCHOOL (Teacher Professional Development)