Third Grades A Hoot!

Whats Happening In Our Class?

Hello everyone. Its hard to believe that its already the end of October! I am looking forward to our Halloween Party Thursday and seeing all the costumes. We have been working very hard in class on listening and showing respect for one another. This goes back to the Social Contract that the students made the first week of school. On Fridays we hold our class meetings so that any issues and good things can be discussed in a safe and secure environment. lenge packs to work on when they finish their journal work. In addition, I have a fourth grade math pack that is available for parents. This is a take home pack to complete at home for an extra challenge. Many of these concepts may be new and will not be taught during the school day. Please let me know if you are interested in this. Please go over your childs homework with them and have them correct any errors. This will help to reinforce concepts learned in class. Thanks! In social studies we are learning about Michigans geography. We are looking at maps and discovering that Michigan has a little bit of everything in its landforms! We have lakes, rivers, bays, sand dunes, mountains, hills, islands and peninsulas! We will also look at the human characteristics that Michigan has as well. In language arts we are working hard on our word journeys. Word journeys is a program where students are working on words and how they sound, how many syllables they have, their vowel patterns, their meaning, their parts of speech and much more. This is much more in depth than just learning 20 words for a test on Friday. You can help your child by making sure that they complete their daily word study homework, look it over to make sure it is correct, and then sign their homework. We are also working on our CAF menu. This is a list of strategies that good readers use to help them comprehend the text or book better. We have looked at questioning, metacognition, fix up strategies, connections and introduced visualization this week. We listened to some Halloween music and visualized and sketched what we saw. We are also working on writing our true stories or personal narratives. In addition we are writing a Halloween sense poem to work on adding detail (binoculars) to our writing.

Mrs. Bates 3rd Grade Class

October, 2013 mbates@rockfordschools.org 863-6363 ext. 4707

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In math we are on Unit 2. The unit will cover Fact Families and fact extensions, number stories and addition and subtraction with carrying and borrowing. Everyone has brought home a mad minute addition/subtraction pack for practice. If you would like your child to have a multiplication and/or division mad minute pack, please let me know. I can send this home for extra challenge work if needed. I have also given everyone extra chal-