Welcome Back!!!

And we are back for some more third grade education. This week the students will be studying inverse operations for math. They should be able to tell you that addition and subtraction are opposite operations in math.
For grammar and spelling we are focusing on adding endings to verbs. They need to know the rules for adding ING and ED!!!
The spelling list we be posted on the side of the blog for the rest of the year.

Poetry

This week I'm so excited to be teaching poetry to the students. We are going to have a fun filled week of listening to poetry, writing poetry, and studying the structural compents.
We will participate in many fall activities to get into the spirit of the month.
No spelling test this week. However, there will be a test on poetry vocabulary.

Celebrations

On Wednesday, October 7th, our 3rd - 5th graders will be having their Honor Roll Assembly along with the Student of the Month Celebrations. The assembly will begin at 8:30am.

On Friday, October 9th at 9:00am, students that received less than 9 infractions on their Character Cards are invited to the Character Campout reward. Please return the blue invitation if your student recieved one. Thank you!

Language Arts Practice Website

Please check out the Reading and Grammar website listed on the right side of this web page. It is a fun site for the kids to practice some skills from our Harcout Reading Program.

Spelling List 9/21

1. tight 11. flight

2. while 12. tide

3. show 13. grow

4. stone 14. broke

5. bright 15. below

6. whole 16. basketball

7. window 17. coach

8. time 18. forward

9. follow 19. dribble

10. close 20. guard



Homework

Monday - 3 times each

Tuesday - make two columns of words - one column for long o and one column for long i

Wednesday - pyramids

Thursday - practice test

Spelling List 9/14

1. simple 11. terrible
2. total 12. people
3. apple 13. medal
4. title 14. handle
5. central 15. single
6. purple 16. explore
7. signal 17. discovery
8. normal 18. astronaut
9. middle 19. visible
10. able 20. scientist

Homework
Monday - 3times each
Tuesday - Categorize the words ending in "le" and the words ending in "al" for the first 15 words
Wednesday - spelling pyramids
Thursday - practice test

Reading Journals

Thank you to the many students and their families for reading 20 minutes per night Monday through Thursday!!!!

Remember it is impotant that your student is reading nightly and filling out their reading journal. Each week they should earn an easy 5 points toward their reading grade. If they are not completing the log then they are losing points which does affect their grade.

If you have any questions about the log, please contact me.

President Obama's Speech

Please be advised that a ligth blue information letter went home last week letting you know that our school would be watching the President's speech in class.
We will be watching the speech at a later time this week.
Let me know if you would like your student to do a different activity during the time of viewing the speech.

PTO

The PTO is doing many wonderful things for our school. Please check your student's folder for a newsletter and other important pieces of information.
The next PTO meeting is this Thursday, September 10th at 6:30pm.

Spelling List 9/8

1. easy 11. raise
2. grade 12. leave
3. meet 13. gain
4. late 14. theme
5. seat 15. scream
6. saved 16. mystery
7. pail 17. solve
8. these 18. search
9. reach 19. found
10.name 20. investigate

Homework
Tuesday - 3 times each
Wednesday- Pyramids
Thursday - Practice test

Curriculum Night

Please join the third grade team for a look at DIBELS and Galileo Testing. Ellsworth Elementary will be having our 1st Quarter Curriculum Night Tuesday, September 1, 2009, from 5:00pm to 7:00 pm.
There will also be root beer floats after you visit our presentation.

Spelling List August 31

1. slip 11. from

2. fish 12. jump

3. pick 13. socks

4. rocks 14. dish

5. lunch 15. thump

6. gift 16. frown

7. thing 17. experession

8. inch 18. surprised

9. truck 19. emotion

10. pond 20. smirk

Homework
Monday - 3 times each
Tuesday - ABC order
Wednesday - Spelling Pyramids
Thursday - Practice Test

Social Studies ~ Our place in the world

This week in reading, we read the story The Armadillo from Amarillo. The Armadillo wanted to understand where he was from in the grand scheme of things. Our third grade team tied that story to our Social Studies standards for Geography.
It's important for our children to know that they live in a house, on a street, in a town, in a state, and so.
Have your student focus on their address, state, country, continent, and planet.

Still a Work In Progress

Obviously, I am still trying to learn how to do this. If I have any parents willing to be the official "Blogger" for our class please email me.

Spelling Words for August 24-28
1. water 11. center
2. over 12. prefer
3. never 13. better
4. under 14. border
5. river 15. fever
6. number 16. laughter
7. wonder 17. giggle
8. tower 18. humor
9. rather 19. chuckle
10. finger 20. flower

Homework
Monday - 3 times each
Tuesday - ABC order
Wednesday - Spelling Pyramids
Thursday - Practice Test

We are On Line

Hello Parents and Students,
I am trying to enter the 21st century. Making a website is a new adventure. Please bare with me.
Hopefully, you will read this a find many useful things to make this third grade year even better.