“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Important Information
Valentine’s Day is Friday, February 14th. It is a dress down day. Everyone should wear red or pink. We will be celebrating with a party in our classroom. If you would like to send in cards for the class, please make sure that there is one for everyone. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to me.
The month of February is Black History Month. This week we will be learning about Billie Holiday, Barack Obama, Malcolm X, and Michael Jordan
Please check your child’s email for the band schedule. All third graders in band have practice on Tuesday and Friday. Additionally, all students have a lesson that is schedule on possibly another day during the week.
Scholastic book orders are due on February 13th. The class code is GZBYH.
Next week is winter break. I hope everyone enjoys the time off!
Academics
Math: We are continuing to work on addition and subtraction using expanded form and place value. In addtiion to Xtramath and Prodigy, the class has been using Splashlearn.com to review rounding. Our test will be after vacation.
ELA: We are continuing our work on Unit 3 Week 5 in our ELA series, Wonder. Our essential question is “How is each event in history unique?” The following is a list of everything we will be covering in ELA, including our vocabulary.
- Genre: Expository Text
- Shared Reading: Moving America Forward
- Anchor Text: Birth of an Anthem
- Paired Selection: Discovering life Long Ago
- Summarize
- Timelines and Captions
- Text Structure: Chronology
- Author’s Purpose
- Vocabulary Words
- agreeable
- appreciate
- boomed
- descendants
- population
- resources
- transportation
- vehicles
- Suffixes: -able, -ful, and -less
- Spelling words: years, twins, trays, states, ashes, foxes, inches, flies, cities, ponies, bunches, alleys, lunches, cherries, daisies, spoon, clues, shook, heroes, and libraries
Social Studies: We are been learning about the branches in the federal government.
Religion: We are learning about how the Holy Spirit keeps us in faith.
TEST and QUIZZES
Friday: Spelling Test
Have a wonderful week! If you have any questions, please email me at [email protected]