Reading/Language Arts

This week, we will finish up our second theme “What a team!” by reading Rosie, A Visiting Dog’s Story on pages 258-275 by Stephanie Calmenson.  In this narrative nonfiction piece, Rosie, a Tibetan Terrier, makes visits to people in nursing homes and hospitals. As we read the story, students will be: learning new vocabulary, practicing decoding long words, working with compound words, classifying, categorizing and, studying word relationships. Writing complete sentences and putting those sentences into a good paragraph will continue to be the subject of our grammar lessons this week. This week, students will be working on words with /ou/.Please spend a few nights with them going over their words learning the proper spelling and usage.

Math

This week students will be able to develop a sense of very large numbers; and to compute with large numbers. We will also count base-10 blocks; identify polygons; and compare perimeters and areas. On Wednesday, we will begin to model decimals with base-10 blocks and review decimals with money. The rest of the week we will work on understanding tenths and hundredths and exchanging between tenths and hundredths. On Friday we will take our 6’s timed test.

Science

Our study on soil continues this week. We begin with identifying common resources and recognizing the difference between renewable, reusable, and nonrenewable resources and understand that some resources are mined. The students will also compare different types of soil, identify the different materials in soil, and recognize the different layers that soil forms. Students will also learn about loam and identify why loam is beneficial for growing vegetables, grass, and overall farm land. Friday we will observe how pollution affects plants and identify how land is used and identify different types of pollution. Ask your child, “Who Dirtied the Water?”

Extra

Monday-Third graders to High School to practice for music concert in morning.

Tuesday-Third grade concert at 2:00 in afternoon and 7:00 at night. Please have your child meet me at 6:40 in room 068 which is the band room. This is located at the far left end of the high school by the woods.

Homework: Will be updated daily as assigned.

Monday, November 30th -  Spelling pages39-41due by Thursday. Math-  7.3 Use What You Know 6’s sheet

Tuesday, December 1st - High school musical tonight.  Reading- take book home and read Rosie on pages 258-275.

Wednesday, December 2nd - Math-Simple solutions 48-49. Reading- study for vocabulary test.

Thursday, December 3rd - Spelling- study for test. Math- Simple Solutions pages 50-51

Friday, December 4th-