Another Day in Paradise!

We have enjoyed another fun and exciting week here in third grade. We ended the week meeting with our book buddies from Mrs. Fowle’s second grade class.
Did I mention it’s almost October? It’s hard to believe that fall is here. Time flies when you’re having fun!
Language Arts: We are reading the anthology “Miss Nelson is Missing”. We also have read aloud many books, including some of my favorites such as…”Skippy Jon Jones”, “We had a Picnic this Sunday Past”, “Do Unto Otters”, “Molly Lou Melon”, and many more. We have mostly focused on books that remind us of friendship and also using manners. We also take time to read and discuss our Weekly Readers.
Spelling: These past few weeks we practiced words ending with –s or –es and also some basic high frequency words. Just a reminder that each child creates their own individual list of words each week. I put a set list of words for kids to use if they have misplaced their list, or if they are absent Monday and didn’t create one.
Math: We are still doing many review activities in our math program. We have done number boxes, pictographs, calculator review, place value, and more addition and subtraction.
Technology: The children took a reading test and practiced using a program called Key Skills.
Science: I’m sure your child has already told you that we have some crayfish that have joined our room for our living things unit. We have been looking at plants and now will be learning all about animals. We have a terrarium full of plants and will be adding worms next week to watch them work under the soil. Science is so fun and exciting!

Just a reminder that next week Friday is the Valley View Voyage. Thank you ahead of time for all of your hard work collecting pledges. I am pledging $1 to each student, so feel free to add that to your total You should have all received a letter telling you about the upcoming MEAP testing. I just want to stress that if you need to pull your child out for any appointments to try to do it at another time. Our MEAP testing dates are Tuesday, October 11th, Wednesday, October 12th, Tuesday, October 18th.
Please feel free to contact me at any time with questions, comments, or concerns.