Mrs.

Grays
3rd Grade Newsletter

Week of December 7 -December 11, 2015


bible
spelling words
memory verse
1. took
For
the Son of Man came to seek and to save
9. amazing
challenge words
2. wood
what
was lost.
10. stood

16. woodwork
3. landing
Luke
19:10
11. good

17. staring
4. brook
12. hopping
5. playing

13. hoping
citizen
of
the
month
for
december
6. timing

14. shook
7. hood
15. meaning

Adam Hennigan
8. bating


This Week in Class:
Responding to the Gospel
Bible:
Spelling City: This is a great resource to practice your spelling and vocabulary words

Math: Length, capacity, weight, and mass,
for our reading test on Friday. I also added the Social Studies vocabulary. Make sure
test 7s and 8s
timed
your student logs on and uses the games for studying.
Grayville City Council - To help students understand the role of the city council,

Reading:
Its A Deal!, Summarizing, Government
we will have a mock election this week. Students can volunteer to put their name on the
Passages

ballot for city council. Those who run for city council will present speeches on why the
class should vote for them. The class will vote (in a ballot box) for 5 city council
Language:
Prefix
and
Suffix,
combing

members to represent Grayville. After the council is announced, the rest of the class will
sentences

get together in groups to come up with bills to present to the city council. As each
group presents their bills, the city council will vote on whether the bill should become a
Social
Studies:
Government

law in Grayville. It is a great way for students to experience a representative form of
government.
Vocabulary:
deal, ancient, valuable, solution,

Weekly Reading Comprehension Selection-We will also be continuing to practice
mark, kingdom, eventually, forms, traders,

reading a short selection and answering questions related to the passage. This will help
goods
the students be more successful on their Cold Read Assessments in class as well as

(news_and_notes)

Art: Meet the Masters

Writing: What is Christmas All About? opinion

paragraph
Check out the Spelling City links on Weebly to
practice your Social Studies and reading vocabulary
and spelling words.

dont forget to turn in your checklist and signed

Spelling test on Friday J

Terra Nova Testing in the Spring. Please encourage them to read it the first time for
meaning, the second time looking for main ideas and repeated words, and then answering
the questions by going back to the text to find evidence. The passage this week is
Power From the People. This can be used toward their 15 minutes of reading and sticky
note response.
iPad apps for telling time:Telling Time, Feel Clock, Tick Tock
Classroom Instagram: check out our new Instagram page called mrsgrayfcs. It is
a private account so you will need to request my permission to view it. It is a great
way to stay connected while your child is at school. Make sure you use our hashtag
#thirdgrayd.

Homework and Stuff

Homework

School

monday

tuesday

wednesday

thursday

friday

P.E.
Mock City Council
election

P.E.
Grayville City Council
meeting

Chapel 9:00 in Sanctuary

to watch the 1ST and 2nd
grade Christmas Program.
7s and 8s Timed Test
Library Books Due

Christmas Program
Rehearsal 9-10am
Computers
Math Quiz #1
Meet the Master 23:00

P.E.
Bible Verse Test
Spelling Test
Reading Test
7s and 8s Timed Test
Mr. Lopez guest speaker

Math Page
Sticky note Summary

Sticky Note Summary

Math Page
Power from the
People Passage

Sticky note Summary

Math Page

Spelling pre-test SIGNED

Sticky note Summary
Read Its A Deal in SRA
book
Study for tests
Math Page

Turn in checklist and signed

pretest!
Turn in Sticky note Summary