11-5-20

 3rd Grade News

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11-5-20

Science

The third grade class is now learning about motion. Students have learned about position. Students have also learned about frame of reference.

Reading/Language Art

This week third grade is reading a folktale called The Harvest Birds by Blanca Lopez de Mariscal. In this story, Juan's dream is to be a farmer. When his father dies, the land is split amongst his two older brothers. Juan decides to ask the richest man in town for land, and the man laughs at him. Next, Juan ask the oldest man in town for land to farm. This man agrees, but offers a stipulation. Juan along with the zanate birds have a bountiful harvest to everyone's surprise. The old man gives Juan the land for future farming. Students worked on drawing conclusions as the comprehension skill. The phonics skill covered silent letters (wr-, kn-, and -tch). The grammar skill focused on using commas in sentences. The class also worked on context clues as the vocabulary skill.

Math

Third grade continues to work on analyzing and interpreting data. Students have worked with picture graphs, bar graphs, and line plots.

Reading Incentive Program

The results are in for the month of October. Nine third grade students met the goal of reading 400 minutes. Congratulations to the following students Karsi, Brock, Hayden, Vada, Kalvin, Kylin, Kinsely, Sam, Indie, and Breckyn for meeting the reading goal. The class read for a total of 5,034 minutes during the month of October. Congratulations to Brock for being the student that read the most minutes with 660 total.

November calendars were sent home in last week's take home folder. Also the PTO is having a Read-A-Thon to fund raise money for the school. This program run through Friday, November 13th. Students may count minutes read for both programs.

Important Dates

Wednesday, November 11th-3rd Grade Attends Live Mass

Friday, November 13th-Spirit Day ($1)

Thursday, November 12th-PTO Meeting 6 PM

Wednesday, November 25th-NO SCHOOL (Teacher Professional Development)

Thursday, November 26th-Friday, November 26th-NO SCHOOL (Thanksgiving Break)