WEEK OF OCTOBER 22 – 26, 2012

This will be an exciting week at Discovery School. We have two very important events going on: 

Our traditional UN DAY celebration takes place on Thursday, October 25. The celebration starts at 8:30 a.m. We hope you will be able to join us as the school showcases our multicultural richness. 

On Friday, October 26 we have Student Led Conferences at school. On this day, Report Cards and MAP Reports will be given out. A note with the time for each third grader’s conference will be sent out on Monday. Since the conferences are student led, parents need to bring their third grader with them.

This week, our third graders will be working on the following:

ü      Math: we will be learning the multiplication facts using 2, 5 and 10 as factors. More than rote memorization, at this time we will focus on the patterns and strategies to learn these tables.

ü      Theme: we will use latitude and longitude lines to find places on a map, and learn about physical and land features.

ü      Spelling: there will be NO spelling lesson for this week. This time will be used for Goal Setting Conferences with the students.

ü      R/W Workshop: we will FINALLY be finishing The Witches for read aloud, getting ready to watch the movie next Wednesday. We remind parents that they need to read the document to the right on this blog for more information about the movie, and whether they will allow their child to watch it. The students will continue working on their independent reading and writing, and reading TIME FOR KIDS articles.

ü      Handwriting: there will be NO new letters introduced this week. We will use this time to learn about the United Nations.

BOOK CHARACTER DAY – Please send in the forms that were sent home last week. Book Character Day is next Wednesday, October 31. The students may choose to dress as a character from a book they have read, and that it was a book before it became a movie. If you have misplaced the form, simply write down on a piece of paper what character has been chosen, the name of the book, and the reason for the choice.

HOMEWORK

Monday	Read your new novel Math paper TIME FOR KIDS sheet
Tuesday	Read your new novel Math paper TIME FOR KIDS sheet
Wednesday	Read your new novel Math paper TIME FOR KIDS sheet UN DAY CELEBRATION TOMORROW (early dismissal!)
Thursday	Read your new novel Be ready for your conferences tomorrow
Friday	NO CLASS TODAY  STUDENT LED CONFERENCES