CLASSROOM NEWS
The first trimester report cards
were posted last Wednesday. Please check
them out and discuss goals for the next report card with your third
grader. The curriculum and expectations
will increase!
Our Holiday celebration is on Thursday, December
22nd. We are having a very low key movie and hot cocoa afternoon in
our PJs. I’m hoping to end the 2016 year
calmly with everything all prepared for when we return in 2017!
READING
The students began working with expository
(nonfiction) text features. All of this
is in preparation for a research type reports the students will begin after the
break.
WRITING
We’ve been working very hard on paragraph
writing. Having a topic sentence, 3-5
detail sentences, and a concluding sentence are now the expectation for all
written responses (constructed) and published writing.
MATH
We are
finishing up Unit 3 and plan on giving the test on Wednesday, December 21st. A review will go home on Monday, December 19th.

Homework is given every Tuesday and Thursday. Each
home-link is a review of a concept the students have learned in class. We encourage parents to help with the
home-links as well as ask the students questions.
Don’t forget, each student received a login card
in order to access the EDM4 games, home-links, and helpful videos. This card is stapled into the front cover of
the assignment notebook that is inside of the binder. Please click HERE to access this site. Your
child also has access to Moby Max. This is a free resource that your child has
access to by using the login I gave in the beginning of the year. Lastly, I signed the class up for the XTRA
math site to help with fact fluency and skill building at home. Click HERE to get to that site. ALL login/passwords should be in the front
cover of your child’s planner to access easily anytime.
SCIENCE
The scientists have been observing the crayfish,
Bess beetle and isopods (pill bugs)! We have a lot
of visitors in the classroom and the kids love it! We are also observing our seeds grow and
change through their life cycle. Lastly,
the students are learning what ALL living things need in order to survive. This will all be on their BA when we finish
this unit.
MI
STUDIES
Unit 2 covers Michigan’s economy! Key words:
Economy
Distribute
Consume
Produce
Opportunity Cost
Goods
Services
Natural Resource
Capital Resource
Human Resource