Mr. Wasil’s 3rd Grade Class

Reading/Language Arts

***There will be no spelling words or story this week due to Open House activities, the 4 day week and our Read-A-Thon day on Friday. This week we will continue with our Koko’s Kitten book reports. The students are doing a nice job writing a five paragraph report on this book. You will see all of their efforts on this displayed at open house on February 16^th from 6:30-7:30.

We will also start a writing assignment called If I Were President. Each student will write about what they would do if they were President. This is always entertaining and fun to read. These too will be displayed at open house.

Math

We will complete chapter six this week and test on Wednesday. The class will complete a review guide on Tuesday and bring it home with them to study.

Social Studies

Students will be able to describe how the past, present, and future are all connected. Identify how communities change over time. We will also create colonial alphabets on a horn book!

Gumball Reward

Our class has reached their goal of 100 gumballs! We will have our big day Friday. Students may, but are NOT required to, bring in sleeping bags, pillows, pajamas, slippers, stuffed animals, and LOTS of books! Games are also allowed on this day and please remember that students are responsible for their own items. If you would like, you may also donate snacks for the class to eat in the afternoon with the movie. This should be a fun day!!

Extras- Friday – Family Bingo Night- 6:30-8:30

Homework: Will be updated daily as assigned.

Monday, January 25th -  No School- Record’s Day For Teachers

Tuesday, January 26th -Math- look over review guide for tomorrow. Reading- page 17 subjects and predicates

Wednesday, January 27th - Math-. Simple Solutions pages 74-75. Language Arts- Balto edit worksheet.

Thursday, January 28th - Math- Simple Solutions 76-77. Language Arts- Julian Tells edit sheet

Friday, January 29th- Read-A-Thon Day Today

Reading/Language Arts

There is no spelling words or story this week due to the 4 day week. This week we will be reading the story Koko’s Kitten by Dr. Francine Patterson. Children love pets, and Koko the gorilla is no exception. When her keeper asks her what she wants, Koko insistently replies–in American Sign Language–”Cat, cat, cat.” Enter All Ball, a tiny kitten abandoned at birth, who isn’t afraid of anything–even a 500-pound primate. This amazing true story captivates young listeners.

Along with this story our class will be writing their first book report. As we begin the second half of this school year, we continue to emphasize the importance of writing in the third grade curriculum. Beginning with this third-quarter grading period, all third grade students will be required to complete a monthly written book report. A letter will be coming home shortly to describe the criteria as to what must be included in each book report. The first book report will be due the first Friday of March.

Math

Students will be able to review the meaning of symmetry; and to explore properties of symmetric shapes. They will also explore congruent figures. The class will work with 3-D shapes and prisms.

Social Studies

Our social studies test will be on Thursday. Please use the half sheet review guide  sent home today so that you know which pages to look over. We will also be working on our timelines this week. Please make sure all pictures are in by Wednesday.

Extras

Friday-End of grading period. Report cards will come home next Friday the 29th.

No school next Monday due to records day.

Homework: Will be updated daily as assigned.

Monday, January 18th -  No School

Tuesday, January 19th -Math- Simple Solutions pages 68-69. Social Studies- start studying for test on Thursday. Use study guides that came home today.

Wednesday, January 20th - Math-. Simple Solutions pages 70-71.  Social Studies- study for tomorrow’s test.

Thursday, January 21st -Language Arts- review page 46 and Math- Simple Solutions pages 72-73

Friday, January 22nd- NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY THE 25th- Records Day for Teachers

Reading/Language Arts

This week, we will continue our third theme in reading: Friends to Grow With. In this unit, students will be observing how people grow and change through their relationships with others. By reading about ways in which friends and family influence real people and fictional characters, students will recognize how people influence each other.

This week we will by reading The Talent Show on pages 306-321. In this realistic fiction story, Beany is anxious about the upcoming talent show. After a talk with her father, Beany realizes the most important thing is to have fun.

As we read the story, students will be: learning new vocabulary, prefixes and suffixes, sequencing, and drawing conclusions. Abbreviations will be the subject of our grammar lessons this week.

For writing this week, we will be doing descriptive paragraphs. We will create a class sculpture and describe it. What is different about this is the students are not allowed to say it is a chair. They must say something like, “It is a yellow four-legged object that you sit on.” When the class is all done, these descriptions will come home to you for you to draw! You will all get an opportunity to see the sculpture and drawings at Open House.

Math

We start the week off by exploring different types of triangles. Next, we will work with quadrangles by discussing right angles, parallel, and equal at length. We will also review the characteristics of polygons, emphasizing regular polygons. The rest of the week will be spent with angles. The students should continue to study their multiplication facts. We will be on our 9’s this week.

Social Studies

Landforms will be our discussion this week. Landform maps show mountains, valley, plains, plateaus, lakes, and other physical features.We will discuss why a landform map would be useful planning a trip to a lake or mountain range. We will identify ways that physical characteristics of the environment affect and have been modified by the local community.

Extras

Monday-PSO meeting today.

Wednesday- Scholastic book orders due today if ordering

Wednesday-Students in the arts entry deadline if participating.

Martin Luther King Day**No school on the 18^th.

Homework: Will be updated daily as assigned.

Monday, January 11th -  Spelling pages 47-49 due by Thursday. Math- Simple Solutions 60-61

Tuesday, January 12th -Math- Simple Solutions pages 62-63. Reading- take book home and read Talent Show on pages 306-321.

Wednesday, January 13th - Math- Simple Solutions pages 64-64. Social Studies- review guide pages 29-30 and Reading- study for vocabulary test.

Thursday, January 14th - Spelling- study for test. Math- home link 6.7 and study for 9′s this week

Friday, January 15th- NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY THE 18TH- MLK DAY

Reading/Language Arts

This week we begin our third theme in reading: Friends to Grow With. In this unit, students will be observing how people grow and change through their relationships with others. By reading about ways in which friends and family influence real people and fictional characters, students will recognize how people influence each other.

Our work in this unit will begin by reading The Stories Julian Tells on pages 284-299. In this realistic fiction story, Julian meets Gloria, a new girl in his neighborhood. Together they make a “wish kite” with wishes fastened to its tail; both wish for lasting friendship.

As we read the story, students will be: learning new vocabulary, sequencing, and multiple meaning words. Plural possessive nouns will be the topic of our grammar lessons this week.

Our spelling pattern will be: possessive and plurals. This pattern can be very hard for some children as we incorporate apostrophes into our spelling. Please spend a few nights with them going over their words learning the proper spelling and usage.

Math

In previous grades, Everyday Mathematics proceeded from children’s experiences with everyday world to idealized 3-dimensional shapes. Children were asked to identify 2-dimenstional shapes, edges, and vertices (corners) within these idealized shapes. Thus, the progressions in previous grades were from 3-dimensional to 2-dimensional. Beginning with this unit, the order is reversed. Children start with points and then move on to line segments, rays, and line. Then they explore the relations among segments, rays, and lines as well as the geometric figures that can be built from them, including angles, polygons, and frames for prisms and pyramids. Unit 6 has three main areas of focus:

· To investigate line segments, rays, and lines

· To explore polygons, including triangles and quadrangles

· To draw and measure angles.

Social Studies

Students will identify the location of the equator, Arctic Circle, Antarctic Circle, North Pole, South Pole, Prime Meridian, The Tropics and Hemispheres on maps and globes. The class will also be able to describe the relative location of places. We will finish the week with identifying and describing landforms, climate, vegetation, population, and economic characteristics of our local community.

Homework: Will be updated daily as assigned.

Monday, January 4th -  Spelling pages 44-46 due by Thursday. Math- Simple Solutions pages 56-57.

Tuesday, January 5th -Math- home link 6.1 and Reading- take book home and read Julian Tells on pages 284-299.

Wednesday, January 6th - Math-home link 6.2 Reading- study for vocabulary test.

Thursday, January 7th - Spelling- study for test. Math- Simple Solutions 58-59 and study for 8′s this week. Social Studies- page 24.

Friday, January 8th-