Our library days are: October 24; November 8, 27; December 11; January 8, 24; February 7, 22; March 8, 22; April 16, 30; and May 14, 29.
October 22, 2012 - No school, professional development day
October 24, 2012 - Picture Retakes
October 26, 2012 - End of the first quarter
October 29, 2012 - No school, teacher grading day
October 31, 2012 - Halloween party (NOTE CORRECTED TIME: extended lunch from 12pm till 1:15pm, Most students go home to change into costumes.)
November 6, 2012: Election day. Students eat in classrooms. Please do NOT send any peanut, tree nut or shellfish products.
November 8, 2012: Early dismissal at 11:05.
November 21 - 23, 2012: No school
December 4, 2012: Visiting author
December 10 - 14, 2012: Frosty's Playground in physical education
December 21, 2012: Winter break classroom party
December 24, 2012 - January 4, 2013: No school
Third Grade Guarantee - Please see the email sent today regarding this important new legislature.
What We Learned This Week
Learning
- I can restate the purpose of each lesson and activity or I can ask, "Why did we do that? What was the point of the lesson?"
- I can ask for clarification, additional instruction or support when I do not understand or cannot demonstrate what we are doing in class.
Word Study
- I can define nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
- I can give examples of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
- I can identify nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in passages.
Reading
- I can state and explain all the parts of a summary: characters (who), setting (when and where), plot (what and why) with a beginning, middle, and end.
- I can identify the author's underlying message in fiction texts.
- I can use context clues to understand unfamiliar words.
Math
- I can represent "big numbers" (numbers to 10,000's) in standard, word and expanded form.
- I can find the sum of two two-digit numbers by using place and value, preserving, or rounding and adjusting.
- I can find the difference between two two-digit numbers by counting up or preserving.
- I can round three digit numbers to the nearest ten or hundred.
- I can estimate by rounding to perform quick operations to check my work.
- I can play standard dominoes to develop my fact fluency, subitizing skills, and focus on multiples of 5's (and 10's).
Social Studies
- I can name the four cardinal directions.
- I can name the four intermediate directions (northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest).
- I can find the title and map key of a map and explain what they mean.
- I can use a map grid to locate objects and places.
Science
- I can explain that geodes form from bubbles in igneous and sedimentary rock and that water seeping through the mineral rich rock forms the crystals in the space left by the bubble.
- I can compare and categorize plants based on their seeds (or no seeds) and roots.
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