Mr. Wasil’s 3rd Grade Class

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 will be reading Wild Shots on pages 208-217 by Tui De Roy. In this magazine article, a wildlife photographer describes how she took some of her favorite photos. As we read the story, students will be: learning new vocabulary, word relationships, self-questioning, multiple-meaning words, making predictions, synonyms, and author’s purpose.

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 /s/ and /j/. Please spend a few nights with them going over their words learning the proper spelling and usage.

Math

We will continue to practice our multiplication facts and are on our 4’s this week. Working with arrays and estimating amounts of dots will be on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the class will be introduced to the use of a map scale and estimate distances. Thursday, we will develop intuition about equally likely events.

Science/Social Studies

In science we will continue to work in our rocks and minerals book. We will also describe the effect of weathering on rock and how erosion changes the Earth’s surface.

For Social Studies on Wednesday, we will celebrate Veteran’s Day by writing letters to Veterans and creating a United States Flag and labeling its parts.

Gumball Reward Day Friday!

Our class has reached their goal of 100 gumballs! We will have our big day Friday, November 13th. 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 the 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!! Click here for information

Extras

Monday-Report cards come home- please sign envelope and return. Students keep the report card.

Thursday-First set of Parent-Teacher Conferences 5:00-9:00 PM

Friday is our first Read-A-Thon Day.

Homework: Will be updated daily as assigned.

Monday, November 9th -  Spelling pages 33-35 due by Tuesday. Math- Homelink 4.7

Tuesday, November 10th - Reading- take book home and read Wild Shots on pages 208-217. Math- Simple Solutions pages 42-43. Science- RS9-RS10 due by Friday

Wednesday, November 11th Math- study for 4’s multiplication test tomorrow. Spelling and vocabulary test tomorrow (due to Friday’s read-a-thon day) along with end of selection comprehension test.

Thursday, November 12th - Science RS-9 RS 10 due by tomorrow

Friday, November 13th- Read-A-Thon Day today. Snacks and sleeping bags are permitted.

Click Here For Recycle Video

Click here to see the introductory video I show for Motion and Force in Science.  WOW!!!

Click here to see the car part motion video.