Important Dates and Reminders
Our remaining library days are: March 22; April 16, 30; and May 14, 29.
March 18, 2013: Invention Convention Display Boards due for ALL students
March 20, 2013: Early release at 1:15
March 23, 2013: Invention Convention at UAHS. Student inventions will be judged from 9:30 till 10:30. Awards will be given at 11:30.
March 28, 2013: End of the Third Grading Period
March 29 - April 5, 2013: Spring Break
April 8, 2013: No School: Teacher Grading Day
April 11, 2013: 3rd Grade Musical Program with Mrs. Delcamp
April 15-18, 2013: Terra Nova and InView assessments (Please try to avoid appointments on these days.)
April 16, 2013: Progress reports sent home
April 26, 2013: Kidfest
April 29, 2013: Ohio Reading Achievement Assessments (All students will take. Please try to avoid appointments on this days.)
April 30, 2013: Ohio Mathematics Achievement Assessment (All students will take. Please try to avoid appointments on this days.)
May 11, 2013: Windermere Wish Run
May 27, 2013: No School: Memorial Day
May 29, 2013: Field Days (Please contact Mr. Moore if you are able to volunteer at adammoore@uaschools.org.)
Walking Wednesdays start again on April 17. The additional Walking Wednesdays are April 24; May 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29.
On April 11 the combined 3rd grade classes will present It's Easy Being Green. All students need to make an instrument out of recycled materials. I've challenged the class to be creative and really have fun with these. I've shared some videos, but these are better.
Ohio Reading and Mathematics Achievement Assessments are coming up. If you would like practice materials, please visit the Ohio Department of Education's website.
Word Study
- I can write and read all lowercase cursive letters.
- I can write and read upper case letters P, B and R.
- I can write and read upper case letters P, B and R.
- I can make singular nouns into plural nouns by adding -s or -es.
- I know plurals ending in -es make a new syllable.
- I know singular nouns ending in -ch, -sh, -x, -z, and -s typically add -es to make the plural form.
- I recognize irregular nouns (e.g., children, mice, deer, etc.)
Encourage your student to write their answers to their reading homework in cursive. It's a great small writing practice.
- I know plurals ending in -es make a new syllable.
- I know singular nouns ending in -ch, -sh, -x, -z, and -s typically add -es to make the plural form.
- I recognize irregular nouns (e.g., children, mice, deer, etc.)
Encourage your student to write their answers to their reading homework in cursive. It's a great small writing practice.
Reading
- I can state the main idea of a passage.
- I can differentiate between main idea and supporting details.
- I can compare and contrast topics.
- I can take notes using the acronym ABC's: Abbreviate, Bullets, Caveman speak
- I can take notes using the acronym ABC's: Abbreviate, Bullets, Caveman speak
Writing
- I can plan a friendly letter with three to four paragraphs.
- My plan contains sufficient supporting details to make my paragraphs rich and interesting.
- I can use my plan to draft paragraphs.
- I can use my highlighter to keep track of which details from my plan I have used.
- I can self-edit for convention.
- I can create topic sentences to introduce my paragraph.
- I can end my paragraph with a conclusion that utilizes observations, feelings, or connections.
I'm very pleased with student writing progress. The class' recent pen pal letters were great! I sent home copies on Friday. I edited some students' spelling, but largely left grammar as it was in their published piece.
I'm very pleased with student writing progress. The class' recent pen pal letters were great! I sent home copies on Friday. I edited some students' spelling, but largely left grammar as it was in their published piece.
Math
- I can name lines, line segments and rays.
- I can draw lines, line segments and rays.
- I can identify parallel and intersecting lines.
- I use the clues in the words parallel and intersecting to remember their meaning.
- I can draw parallel and intersecting lines.
- I can name the parts of an angle: vertex, sides.
- I can identify right, acute and obtuse angles.
- I can draw right, acute and obtuse angles.
- I draw the right angle symbol in right angles to ensure readers know it is a right angle.
- I know angles measure a fraction of a circle or arc.
- I know a circle has 360 degrees.
- I know a right angle is 90 degrees.
- I can name triangles using their three vertices.
- I know triangles have three vertices, three sides, and three angles.
- I can draw bar graphs, label categories, determine and label scale, provide a title and tell three things I know about the data.
Science
- I can draw lines, line segments and rays.
- I can identify parallel and intersecting lines.
- I use the clues in the words parallel and intersecting to remember their meaning.
- I can draw parallel and intersecting lines.
- I can name the parts of an angle: vertex, sides.
- I can identify right, acute and obtuse angles.
- I can draw right, acute and obtuse angles.
- I draw the right angle symbol in right angles to ensure readers know it is a right angle.
- I know angles measure a fraction of a circle or arc.
- I know a circle has 360 degrees.
- I know a right angle is 90 degrees.
- I can name triangles using their three vertices.
- I know triangles have three vertices, three sides, and three angles.
- I can draw bar graphs, label categories, determine and label scale, provide a title and tell three things I know about the data.
- Invention Convention display boards are due on Monday.
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We started watching and discussing portions of 1900 House, a documentary on the PBS experiment to have a contemporary family live life as a middle class family in 1900. We will use this examination of how life has changed to start our discussion of how women's lives have changed over time and will refer to this as we start our famous women's research unit in conjunction with Women's History Month.
