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• countries A Look Back

• exciting
Whew! We flew thinking skills. Close to 100 want to be (what we want to
• to through this short week! We gives us six cards and stu- know), and how much smarter
accomplished a lot of things dents have to determine we are (what we learned). Dr.
• began Kopp had the opportunity to
during these furiously fast which four can be made in to
four days. We are really start- two, two-digit numbers to come in and observe our class
• camping
ing to get into the swing of give a sum close to 100. It’s a during one reading class. He
• nail third grade routine and I am tough, but fun game! We also really enjoyed seeing the stu-
truly enjoying your children! played a money game that dents partner read and how
• holiday I believe we’re doing a great allowed us to brush up on well they can summarize after
job! During math this week money counting and identifi- each partner reads a bit. He
• thank also enjoyed knowing that
we continued to work on ad- cation skills. During reading,
dition and subtraction strate- we read non-fiction books they are reading to find infor-
• crayon
gies. We also worked on that connected with our previ- mation which is a huge skill
• laugh strategies to solve multi-step ous science unit on plants. in third grade! We also began
word problems. We have While reading these books, the first part of a big social
• address been working on figuring out students gathered interesting studies unit that focuses on
how many answers a problem and new facts. We made a communities and Missouri.
• ate This unit will take a few
with have and how to deter- twist on the tradition KWL
mine what type of problem chart and called it our Smart weeks to complete. Right now
• eat
we are trying to solve. We Chart. We listed how smart the students are focusing on
also played a couple of math we are (we already knew this the three types of communi-
games that test our deep- information), how smart we ties and what we will find in
DATES TO each. We also completed our
REMEMBER All About Me papers; come
Open House 9/14

Book Orders due

A Peek to Next Week check those out in our hall at
Open House.

9/18/09 Next week marks the fourth troducing a lot of new mate- day. I need to apologize for
Spelling Pre-Test week of our first quarter in rial to students. I encourage forgetting to sign the assign-
9/14 Study! third grade. Although we each of you to look at your ment books on Thursday. I
have been reviewing a lot of child’s assignment book with had a meeting and completely
Spelling Test 9/18
second grade curriculum, we them each night and ask about let that task slip my mind.
have also worked in quite a assignments. It helps your Hopefully, I won’t do that too
9-24 Character bit of new material. We are child recall the information often. During math we will
Assembly @ 2:30 to the point that I will be in- that they learned during the introduce multiple types of
graphs and many that show
more than one type of data.
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Next Week Cont.

To ensure that students un- unit about how plants and mals, climate, and interest-
derstand graphing com- animals help one another. ing facts of certain habitats.
pletely, they will be re- This will lead us to our These are great papers and
quired to make a graph of habitat writing assignment help the students become
multiple data to report. and habitat diorama project. strong researchers. Don’t
This is always a fun unit to More information will come forget Open House Monday
complete! In reading we home about this soon. Dur- night from 6:30 – 7:30.
will be reading the adorable ing writing we will focus You’ll see lots of great
story Tops and Bottoms. our attention on learning work.
This story goes well with how to write a five para-
our science unit on plants graph paper. This should
and animals. To compli- take a couple of weeks to
ment this story, we will complete. We will be fo-
begin working on a science cusing on the plants, ani-

Ask Me, I Know!

'Don't go where What are the three types of What are some of the word
the path may communities? What can be problem strategies that you
found in each community? learned?
lead, go instead
where there is no Was there once an ocean in
path and leave a Missouri? (Technically, it
trail.' covered Missouri and many
other states!)
Ralph Waldo
Emerson What is one interesting fact
that you learned from the
non-fiction plant book you
read during reading time?

work and assess what I see

in the classroom. You will

Classroom Notes also have a time during that

night to come and speak
with me about concerns and
I will have a sign-up sheet that you will bring your grades.
for parent-teacher confer- child with you to watch Currently, I only have three
ences at Open House. them do work and confer- parents who have let me
Please don’t forget to sign ence with me at the same know that they can help in
up before you leave for the time. This is by no means some way with our Mis-
evening. If you are not another Open House. Open souri project. We will be
going to be there, please House is simply a show and
making these the week of
contact me so we can set up tell; parent-teacher confer-
a time. Our conferences are ences are a time for you to 9/20. If you can help,
student led. This means watch your child actually please let me know soon.
Thanks you for your sup-
port!
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