A Look at the Week Ahead!

Ms. Maddie
3rd Grade

Word Wall Words

sky, snow, read, start, stay, later

March 2, 2015

N testing in
March 6-MAP
Reading
March 13-MAP testing in
Math
March 30-April 3: Spring
Break
April 9: Columbia trip
April 13: Greenville Drive
All Star Reading Game
April 20-24: Book Fair
April 24: Roper Mountain

Spelling Words
birthday, anyone, sometimes,
everything, homework, afternoon,
airplane, grandmother, something,
without, himself, faraway,
sunburned, daylight
Challenge Words
scorekeeper, everybody
Donations of copy paper are much
appreciated!!

April 28-30: State testing

Homework
1.

Math
Monday-PB pg. 193-194
Tuesday-study multiplication facts
and wi sheet
Wednesday-elapsed time wordbers
problem
Thursday-PB pg. 199-200
Read 15 minutes and fill out reading log or complete assignment on RAZ-kids Due on
Friday

2.

Spelling Monday-sentences, Tuesday-3xeach, Wednesday-study for test

Curriculum/Vocabulary
Math: We will continue our unit on data and measurement and learn how to tell time to the
minute, measure elapsed time and tell the beginning and ending times.
Science-We will begin our unit on plants and learn about life cycles, pollination and physical
and behavioral adaptations of plants.
Reading: We will be reviewing the following skills this week: context clues, story elements,
summarizing and character traits.
Writing: Students will be working with compound words. We will be writing an opinion
piece.
Assessments
Thursday-Spelling test (see note about dictation sentences)
Friday-Reading novel packet due
for test grade, Words
Math quiz
Vocabulary

Balanced
Dairy
vegetables
Diet
Hungry
shopping

shopper

The Champion Cupboard is a weekend food

backpack program that supports students in our
school that are in need. We collect nonperishable
food items all year long. If you are able to help with
this worthy cause, please send in food items with
your child to be placed in the boxes outside of the
cafeteria or given to their teacher. We are currently
in need of peanut
butter, pasta, pasta sauce, and cereal or cereal
bars. Thanks for your support!
We are so excited to announce a new
program available to our students, RAZ
kids. Information is attached about how
you can access this at home. This app or
website allows students to earn points by
listening and reading to books on their
just right level. This can be an alternative
to the reading log, but it's not a
requirement. If you choose to work on a
text from RAZ Kids, just write that on the
reading log along with a guardian
signature. I'll be able to monitor student
progress online. If you do not have
access to a computer or internet at
home, your child will continue to
complete the regular reading log. Every
child will have an opportunity to work on
RAZ kids here at school as well.
Dictation Sentences:
In addition to spelling words on Thursday spelling
tests, third grade will begin doing dictation
sentences. Students will not be given the dictation
sentences ahead of time. The purpose of the
dictation sentences are for students to use their
audio processing skills to comprehend and practice
recording proper grammar, spelling, and sentence
structure in their writing. Students will be graded
on proper usage of capital letters, correct
punctuation and correct spelling.

The Reading All Stars reading program

has started. Students must read 5 books
approved by their teacher to receive a
voucher to attend the game on Monday,
April 13th.