Mrs.

Goodnight’s Third
Grade News
Micanopy Area
March 29, 2010
Cooperative School

 Thank you! Kudos to all the chaperones that volunteered

during our field trip to the Florida Natural History Museum.
The third graders had a wonderful time.  Be sure that you
log 3 volunteer hours in with Ms. Pam at the front office.

Weekly Assignments
Monday-
Math- Chapter 17 Test today in class; hw-
study multiplication facts 0-6
Snack
Schedule
Spelling- practice test; write misspelled
words 3 x’s each
Read- 30 minutes
Tuesday- Week of 3/29
Math- Chapter 1-17 Cumulative Test in
class; no h.w.
Spelling- 2 x’s each Monday – Cory W.
Read- 30 minutes Tuesday-Dakota
Wednesday- Wednesday – Mrs. G
Math- multiplication fact worksheet
Spelling- Rainbow Spelling Thursday– Chanse
Language Arts- paragraph of the week Friday– Megan
assignment; details attached
Thursday
Math- multiplication fact worksheet *We have 19 students.
Spelling- practice test
Read- 30 min

FCAT Relief Vocabulary/

SPELLING LIST - GEOGRAPHY
Spelling
Week March Words THEMED WORDS
29-April 2nd
Monday- School n/a Micanopy
Spirit Day Alachua County
Tuesday- Mix state
Match Clothes Day Florida
Wednesday- Crazy Country
Hat Day United States of America
Thursday- Silly Continent
Hair Day North America
Friday- Pajama
planet
Day
Earth
*Don’t forget
tennis shoes for
P.E.
Bi
Social Studies- cx
Students have begun a geography unit. During their Math – Week of 3/29
studies, students will learn to identify where they live Students are taking the
in terms of city or town, county, state, country, and chapter 17 test on
continent. Then students will begin learning the Monday and the
cumulative 1-17 test on
location of each of the 50 states and their capitals.
Tuesday. For the
This month’s book response has been remainder of the week,
incorporated into our geography unit. In lieu of students will be engaged
reading a whole book for this month’s project, each in multiplication practice
child has picked a state to research in further depth. and math review games.
Most of the research will be conducted in class Chapter 18, Classifying
during computer lab. Plane and Solid Figures
However, I highly encourage you to take part in will begin the week
your child’s research during this project. You may students return from
assist your child as he/she searches the internet to spring break.
find pictures or other items that he/she can use to
Vocabulary-
create the float or simply to explore the state in
further depth. As a culminating activity, students
will create a float representing the state that he/she
studied and present it to the class. Then we will
parade our floats around the school to show them to
the other classes.
READING-

THIS WEEK STUDENTS WILL READ THE CHAPTER BOOK

TITLED, RAMONA THE BRAVE. THIS BOOK IS WRITTEN BY
ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE CHILDREN’S BOOKS
AUTHORS, BEVERLY CLEARY.
SEVERAL OF THE CHAPTERS WILL BE ALOUD TO THE
STUDENTS. THE OTHERS WILL BE READ WITH A LEARNING
PARTNER OR INDEPENDENTLY. FOCUS WILL BE PLACED ON
IDENTIFYING CHARACTER TRAITS AND SEQUENCING.

STUDENTS WILL ENJOY THE BREAK FROM OUR BASAL

READER. AFTER SPRING BREAK, WE WILL RETURN TO OUR
READER. HOWEVER, WE WILL BE READING MORE CHAPTER
BOOKS THIS SPRING.

Writing-
Paragraph of the week-
Topic- favorite outfit Have a safe, relaxing, and
Due- Friday fun spring break! 

Macs Cares
Reminder- Our class is creating a pink Meredith Goodnight
themed (for breast care awareness) Third Grade Teacher
basket that will be auctioned off at m.goodnight@micanopyarea
the spaghetti fundraiser on May 7th. school.org
Please send in items to help us to 352-466-0990
create a basket worthy of raising a
lot of money!!!