Please remember to send in any box tops forms by this Friday, September 28th.

 

Thank you to those of you who already sent them in. We greatly appreciate your assistance with this fundraiser!

Happy Wednesday. We are halfway through the week.

 

Happy Monday! I hope you were able to enjoy the beautiful weather this weekend. Here is the homework for today:

 

1. Reading Log + Read 20(+) minutes

 

2. Math Homework pages for Lesson 2.1

 

3. Simple Solutions Lesson #18

 

4. IXL - Due FRIDAY - 3rd Grade U.4 and U.11

 

5. Book Reports due FRIDAY

Just a quick note:

 

Next week's reading test - "Supermarket" - will have 2 additional points added in Power School. There were two questions that caused some confusion for the majority of students, so I am throwing out those questions. (The actual tests that your student will take home next week will not show the additional points, but the points are in the grade book.)

Week at a Glance

Week of September 24 - 28, 2018

 

Math: We are starting a new chapter in Math. This one will include using various tables and charts to analyze and collect data. The first lessons look at pictographs and bar graphs. We will also continue working on our daily spiral review lessons in our Simple Solutions books.

Science: Please visit Ms. Papagianis’s page for Science information

Language Arts: We are working on identifying Author’s Purpose when we read (as that can affect how we read stories). The students will examine the following reasons for authors to write: to persuade, to inform, and to entertain. Our vocabulary words focus on how prefixes and suffixes can change the meanings of words. Our spelling words have vowel teams ou, ow, oi, and oy. In Writing, we are working on sensory and feeling words and how these can enhance our personal narratives.

Reading: Our story this week is Rows and Piles of Coins. It is a realistic fiction story. We will discuss Author’s Purpose and also the structure of the story. We will use additional texts throughout the week for practice as well.

Social Studies: We will compare three types of communities: rural, urban, and suburban. We will complete some work in our textbooks, as well as watch a video and display information about the communities in a graphic organizer.

Religion: We will continue learning about the 10 Commandments, how we can use our conscience to inform our choices, and how we can set examples of following God’s law for others.

Your child will have a Spelling and a Reading test on Friday. You can find the spelling list on the Spelling tab. The Reading test goes with our story and vocabulary terms of the week.

Additionally, I will be testing students’ reading levels with our F & P leveling system. As soon as I complete the testing, I will communicate your child’s reading zone with you to help you find “good fit” books at home. Thank you for your help!

Happy Friday!

 

Here is the homework for the weekend:

 

1. Read each day (20+ minutes) and complete the Reading Log entries

 

2. No Math homework

 

 

Please try to attend Mass with your child this weekend. Enjoy the cooler weather, and we'll see you back at school on Monday!

We have made it halfway through the week. The students took the i-Ready Reading test very seriously yesterday and worked hard. They will take the math i-Ready test tomorrow (Thursday) morning.

 

Have a blessed day. Here is the homework for tonight:

 

1. Read 20+ minutes and complete Reading Log entry

 

2. Simple Solutions Math Lesson #16

 

*No IXL homework this week*

*No Math homework from the book due to the Chapter 1 Test*

 

Book reports are due Friday, September 28th. Your child is welcome to bring it in before that day if s/he completes it early.

We finished up our i-Ready testing today. The students have been working hard. We also completed our Chapter 1 Math test (which will go home in next week's Friday folders).

 

Here is the homework for today:

 

1. Read 20+ minutes and complete Reading Log entry

 

2. Simple Solutions Lesson #17

 

3. Spelling Test and Reading Test Friday

 

4. Book reports due next Friday, September 28th

 

Reminder: Dress down day for our homeroom tomorrow (Friday) - thank you for your support with the Spirit Run!

Thank you for your generosity in supporting the Spirit Run for St. Joseph School. Our homeroom had over 75% participation in our fundraising efforts, so the students have earned a dress down day for this Friday, September 21st!

 

Please follow the rules for dress down days as outlined in the handbook.

Today we completed the first part of our i-Ready testing. The second testing session will be Thursday.

 

Here is the homework for today:

 

1. Read for 20+ minutes and complete Reading Log entry for the day.

 

2. Math Simple Solutions Lesson #15

 

3. Study/Practice for Chapter 1 Math Test Wednesday and Thursday.

Please help review concepts on the study guide, which is coming home today with your child.

 

*There is no IXL homework this week.*

 

*Book reports are due Friday, September 28th.*

Happy Monday! Here is the homework for today:

 

1. Read for 20+ minutes and complete Reading Log entry for the day.

 

2. Math Simple Solutions Lesson #14

 

3. Math Test this week

(We will split the test up into two parts, which will be either Wednesday and Thursday or Wednesday and Friday, depending on how our week plays out. Please help review concepts on the study guide, which will be completed in class.)

 

*There is no IXL homework this week.*

 

We will be completing our online i-Ready testing this week. Please be sure your child brings his/her dry (peanut-free) snack and gets plenty of rest. This is not something your child can study for, as it is a baseline assessment for the year.

Happy Friday!

 

The only homework for your child this weekend is:

 

1. Read 20 minutes complete the Reading Log daily

2. Continue working on the book report due Friday, September 28th.

 

Please make sure to read through the Week at a Glance for next week and to check out next week's Spelling words (located in the Spelling Tab - Unit 1 Week 4).

 

We also encourage you to take your children to Mass. Have a lovely weekend.

 

Bonus: Here is a link to a video we watched while learning about punctuation marks - Victor Borge's Phonetic Punctuation - The students had fun making sounds to accompany periods and question marks this week.

Week at a Glance

Week of: September 17-21, 2018

 

Math: We are finishing up Chapter 1 in our math books. We will review for our test and take the test by Wednesday or Thursday of this upcoming week. Please review addition and subtraction strategies with your child. We will have a test review in class, which your child will bring home. Please review these problems with your child. If s/he understands the process of how to solve them, s/he should do well with similar problems on the assessment.

Science: Due to i-Ready testing, we will not have Science and Social Studies this week. These will resume next week.

Language Arts:  We are working on developing and identifying setting in our narrative writing. We will focus on sensory details and one moment in time. Our spelling list works on vowel teams oa, oy, ow, ea, ee, ai, ay. *One additional way to practice these words is to make a word sort - have your child sort the words into the vowel teams to see similarities between list words in order to help him/her spell.* (Index cards are helpful for this activity!)

Reading: This week we will read an informational text entitled “Supermarket.” We will work on comparing and contrasting information in nonfiction texts using organizers such as lists and Venn Diagrams.

Social Studies: Due to i-Ready testing, we will not have Science and Social Studies this week. These will resume next week.

Religion:  We will discuss God’s laws, especially in light of the 10 Commandments. We will use these laws to help us inform our own choices in how we treat God and others.

Tests and Additional Announcements:

Your child will have a Spelling and a Reading test on Friday. You can find the spelling list on the Spelling tab. The Reading test goes with our story and vocabulary terms of the week.

The Math test will be spread out over two class periods, most likely Wednesday and Thursday or Wednesday and Friday. We will start a new chapter on graphing and data collection next week.

We will have our i-Ready testing this week in Reading and Math. There is no preparation needed for these tests. Just make sure your child is getting enough sleep.

Please continue to send in peanut-free, dry snacks with your child for snack time.