Thursday, November 9, 2017

11-9-17

3rd Grade News
nburg@crestonstmalachy.org
11-9-17

Math
Earlier in the week the third grade class took the chapter 2 test covering analyzing and interpreting data. Students have also been working on a school wide survey about favorite emojis and made online graphs. 

Next week third grade will begin to learn about the process of multiplication.

Science
Students took a test over animals this past week. Thank you to Matt, Heidi, and Taylor Rohrig for sharing their knowledge of pigs with the class this past Tuesday. Taylor taught the class how to notch their ears for identification purposes. The Rohrig family even brought pigs in so the students could see the ear notches firsthand. Governor Reynolds and Lt. Governor Gregg also stopped by to visit our class on this day. It is great to be able to show them what third grade is doing in science and how it relates to careers.

        

Reading/Language Arts
This week third grade is reading a biography called "Young Thomas Edison." The story primarily focuses on the childhood of Edison. Students worked on main idea and supporting details as the comprehension focus. The vocabulary strategy covered shades of meaning. Student identified the small difference in meaning between similar words and phrases. Students worked on the short o sound with the letters au, aw, al, and o.  For the grammar skill, students learned about pronouns.

The lesson 9 weekly assessment results have been included in the take home folder. These are yours to keep.

The class will take the Unit 2 Benchmark test on Monday and Tuesday next week. We will begin lesson 11 on Wednesday, November 15th and end it on Tuesday, November 21st. We will also the class to get five days of the lesson in before break.

Veteran's Day
Veteran's Day will be observed at St. Malachy School on Friday, November 10th. Students are asked to wear red, white, and blue in honor of the veterans. This is also a $1 Spirit Day for the students. 3rd grade will be attending a program put on by the kindergarten and fifth grade students during the afternoon.

Field Trip
The first, second, and third grade field trip to the Des Moines Playhouse is Tuesday, November 14th. The bus for the trip leaves St. Malachy at 9:30 AM. Please have students come to school at the normal time. Students may bring hand held electronics for the bus ride. We will eat our sack lunches from 11:00-11:40 AM at the playhouse. The performance of A Little House Christmas will be from 12:00-1:30 PM. The bus will arrive back at St. Malachy School around 2:45 PM.

I have all of the permission slips, but I am missing the seven dollars from a couple of students. Please get the money turned into me by Friday, November 10th.

Important Dates
Thursday, November 9th-STEM Night from 5:30-7:30 PM
Friday, November 10th-Spirit Day ($1)
Tuesday, November 9th-1st, 2nd, and 3rd Grade Field Trip
Thursday, November 16th-PTO Meeting 6 PM
Wednesday, November 22nd-NO SCHOOL (Teacher Professional Development)
Thursday, November 23rd-NO SCHOOL (Thanksgiving Break)
Friday, November 24th-NO SCHOOL (Thanksgiving Break)


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