OUR SCHOOL VISION IS:

Provide a standards-based educational program in a safe, caring, and

respectful environment. We are working to develop lifelong learners and
responsible citizens.
Goal 1: increase in communicating their understanding in all curricular
areas by demonstrating improved ability to gather, organize, and compose
information in both oral and written formats as measured by system-wide
and school-based assessments.
Goal 2: increase in their ability to demonstrate an understanding of
number sense and number relations as measured by system-wide and
school-based assessments. Such as: ordering numbers, representing numbers
in equivalent forms, identifying relationships and interpreting numbers in
real-world situations

Week of
February 2-6

Parents thanks for your participation in the Fridays Parent/Teacher Conference. They were very productive and
essential for students progress. Now we are ready for the second half of the year, with the African-American project
and Wax Museum, and the Terra Nova battery of tests looming ahead. Again, thanks for your presence.
Spelling List consonant sounds wr, kn,
Homework Assignment
mb, gn, silent consonants

Monday
Late Start
10:30
Host
Nation
Tuesday
Day 2
Host
Nation
Wednesday
Day 3
Music

Write sentences with the first 5 spelling words.

Thursday
Day 4
P.E.

Language and Math Homework Packet for Day 4

African American project First Personal speech/essay

Friday
Day 1
Art

Language and Math Homework Packet for Day 1

African American project First Personal speech/essay

Write sentences with the next 5 spelling words.

Language and Math Homework Packet for Day 2

African American project First Personal speech/essay
Write sentences with the last 5 spelling words.

Language and Math Homework Packet for Day 3

African American project First Personal speech/essay

Quiz at school

Regular List

Challenge List

1. thumb
2. gnaw
3. written
4. know
5. climb
6. design
7. wrist
8. crumb
9. assign
10. wrench
11. knot
12. wrinkle
13. lamb
14. knob
15. knit

1. wrestler
2. bologna
3. cologne
4. honeycomb
5. knickknack
6. honeycomb
7. plumber
8. daughter
9. neighborhood
10. aisle
11. halves
12. limb
13. doubtful
14. muscle
15. scissors

Congratulations go to Natalie and Dakara for their participation in the Spelling Bee
Contest. Great Job, Girls! Natalie Coming 2nd competing with an upper grader was a

Fantastic Achievement!
Math: We will continue working on multiplication topics 6 and 18
Graphs, pictograph
We will solve word problems using multiplication, and money.
Reading
Draw conclusions and inferences
Describing a setting
Syllabicating reviewed
We will continue practicing summarizing, generalizing
and story maps.
Language Arts:
Present, past and future tenses.
Irregular verbs
Words with wr, kn, mb, gn
Subject and Object pronouns
Practice the article a and an before consonants and vowels.
Adjectives
Suffixes and prefixes
We will write paragraphs by using the knowledge of main ideas and details. We
will work on first person narrative
African American project writing the personal essay. Prepare speeches.
African American Poetry

Science
Matter and the Universe, Astronomy, Pictures in the sky, constellation stories
Static and current electricity- learn about atoms, protons, neutrons, electrons,
magnets and cells. We will experiment with transformers and current electricity.
Health Instruction: Pathogens, one celled organisms, diseases and contamination.
How to stay healthy
Mountain Top
Black American History. Research the biography of some important African American
like Washington Carver or take your pick at
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/aframer/bios/ www.factmonster.com :
Important African Americans

Modified List:
L is not pronounced after the vowels A, O and U.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

calm,
half,
talk,
walk,
would,
should,
could,
calf,
salmon,

10. yolk,
11. chalk,
12. folk
13. balm
14. stalk
15. folk

African American Info

African American Social Studies Project

Dear Parents,
Next month is African American Heritage month. To celebrate this
special month each student in my class will be required to do a research
project on a famous African American. The research project will be
done mainly in class, but some parts will need to be completed at home.
To go along with this project we will also be participating in a Living
Wax Museum. Your child will need to memorize, (we will work on their
speech in class and then they will bring it home to study and memorize),
some facts about the person they are researching and then dress up like
them (as best they can) and participate in the Living Wax Museum on
Feb. 26.

African American Research and February

Poster Project
Research on:

---------------------------------

Assignment: Gather research on your African American that covers

the topics below we will do research in class as well. Printing out
colored pictures at
home is best as at school we have limited use of printing
in color.
1. Dates of birth and death (if applicable)

2. Place of birth, where he/she spent most of their life

3. Childhood facts/schooling (college?)
4. Personal life (marriage, children, pets, famous relatives, etc.)
5. Information on their life as a famous person
6. What job did they have (prior tobeing famous)
7. What made them famous or lead to them becoming famous
8. Interesting little known facts about him/her (3-4 facts)
9. Large picture of your person and family (5X7)
Sincerely, S. DeMelo

Living Wax Museum Information

Dates and Times
February 25 at 5:30pm in the DGF multipurpose room (Wednesday)
February 26 at 0845-1000 in the DGF multipurpose room (Thursday)
On February 25 students need to arrive already dressed for their
presentation. This presentation is for parents and family members.

On February 26 students need to bring the clothing they will be wearing for their
presentation in a separate bag and they will dress up at school prior to their
performance. Parents are welcome to come to this performance as well.

Sincerely, the Third Grade Team

(Mr. De m elo, Mrs. Echols, Ms.

DGF Rota ES Elementary School

Mr. DeMelos Third Grade
2014- 2015
African American Poster Project Rubric
Name:
Contents

5
Contained all items
required:title, birth
date, birthplace,
childhood, adulthood,
why they're famous,
picture, and interesting
facts
Organization The poster is in the
correct order,
organized into six
sections and the
correct writing is in
the section that goes
with that topic.

Sentence
Fluency

The sentences are

fluid, they are well
built, and they are
varied in structure
and lengt;h.

Conventions

The poster is free of

any spelling or
grammatical errors

Presentation

The poster is extremely

neat, well organized,
easy to read, and is eye
catchy.

4
Missing only
one of the
required
items.

The poster is
not in the
correct order,
it is divided
into six
sections, and
the writing is
in the correct
section.

The
sentences
are
somewhat
fluid, are well
built and vary
in structure
and length.
The poster
only has 1-2
spelling
errors and
only 1-2
grammatical
errors.
The poster is
neat,
organized,
easy to read,
but not that
eye catchy.

3
Missing two
of the
required
items.

1
Missing three Missing four or
of the
more of the
required
required items.
items.

The poster is
in the correct
order, but it
is not divided
into six
sections, the
writing is in
the correct
section.

The poster is
not in the
correct order,
it is divided
into six
sections, the
writing may or
may not be in
the correct
section.

The
sentences
are fluid,
they are well
built, but
they do not
vary in
structure and
length.
The poster
has 3-4
spelling
errors and
has 3-4
grammatical
errors.
The poster is
fairly neat,
organized, a
bit difficult to
read, slightly
eye catchy

The
sentences
are fluid,
they are not
well built,
and they do
not vary in
structure and
length.
The poster
has 5-6
spelling
errors and
has 56grammatica
I errors.
The poster is
not neat,
organized,
difficulty to
read, not very
eye catchy

The poster is not

in the correct
order and it is
not organized in
six sections and
the writing may
or may not be in
the correct
section.
The sentences
are choppy, not
well built, and
do not vary in
structure and
length, making
the reading hard
to do.
The poster has
more than 6
spelling errors
and more than 6
grammatical
errors.
The poster is not
neat, unorganized,
very difficult to
read, and is not
eye catchy.

total