WEEK OF MARCH 4 – 8, 2013

 

We begin this post with EXCELLENT NEWS! Last Saturday, Anacamila represented Discovery School in the local Spelling Bee at the International School in Tegucigalpa. She competed with 32 other third graders, and Anacamila won FIRST PLACE in the competition. Congratulations “Ana-C”!!!! You have made us all very proud!!!

Busy, busy, busy! We are very busy learning new and interesting things every day in third grade! Hot, hot, hot! It is getting hotter every day! Please make sure that you bring your water bottles to school, and wear light colored and cool clothes to school .

MAP Practice – We want ALL our third graders to practice their Reading Skills in the MAP website we have provided. (http://www.sowashco.k12.mn.us/ro/pages/studentlinks/map/reading.htm )To keep track of this progress, all our students will have a chart that looks like the one below. We are asking our third graders to practice two or three skills every night, and once it is done, a parent should initial in the chart provided in the Take Home Folder.

MARCH MAP (READING SKILLS) PRACTICE

You need to have at least THREE signatures each week

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
4	5	6	7	8
11	12	13	14	15
18	19	20	21	22

This week, we will be working on the following:

ü      Math: we will continue working with fractions (fractional parts of a set, adding ans subtracting fractions with like denominators, and writing mixed numbers)

ü      Theme: we will test the 5 unknows with heat, organize the data we have collected, identify the 5 unknowns, and identify the “mystery goo”.

ü      R/W Workshop: we will continue with our special reading groups working with antonyms and synonyms, working on literature response activities with the books we have read (Boundless Grace, Legend of the Blue Bonnet and Maniac Maggie) and enjoy Caleb’s Story for Read Aloud. Please do not fall behind on your Beverly Cleary novel – packets are due on Monday, March 18.

ü      Spelling: lesson 26 is about the /ar/ sound. The quiz will be on Friday. A NEW list of activities to do homework from will be given out on Monday.

ü      Handwriting: letters /F/ and /B/ in cursive

The Juniors are asking for our cooperation in their Cayos Cochino’s community service project. Each third grader is asked to contribute with two pair of scissors. We appreciate you sending them in as soon as possible.

HOMEWORK

Monday	Read your novel Math paper Choose an activity from the NEW list of activities to do with your Spelling words Practice your MAP Reading Skills
Tuesday	Read your novel Math paper Choose an activity from the NEW list of activities to do with your Spelling words Practice your MAP Reading Skills
Wednesday	Read your novel Math paper Spelling paper Practice your MAP Reading Skills
Thursday	Read your novel Math paper Study for the Spelling quiz Practice your MAP Reading Skills
Friday	Read your novel Practice your MAP Reading Skills