Mrs. Burland's Post
January 29th to February 2nd

Thursday, February 1st is an early dismissal day. Please plan accordingly. 

Congratulations to Robert for representing third grade in our district Spelling Bee this upcoming week.

Testing Information: As a third grade team we have made the decision as a 3rd grade team not to generally administer the Winter MAP test to our students.  At this time, we felt that the time away from instruction to take this test was not worth the results we would get.  We have not made any decisions about the Spring MAP test.  For Winter data review we continue to use Fountas and Pinnell Reading Leveling (Benchmarking next week) and our Common ELA and Math assessments that the students have taken on line which directly assess the standards we are teaching in our curriculum.  If you have further questions, please feel free to reach out to your homeroom teacher.

Upcoming Week at School:

Social Science:  This week students will study chapter 3, lesson 4 titled, A New Life in America.  A study guide for chapter 3 will come home this week and there will be a test in the week of February 5th. 

Math: There will be a  unit 4 test on Addition, Subtraction & Measurement on Monday, January 29th. Then will begin unit 5 on Geometry. We  will have a divide by 8 timed test on Wednesday, January 31st. 

ELA:    Students will continue taking notes for an expository writing piece on a country where their family/ancestors have immigrated from and begin typing their own nonfiction chapter book. They should make sure they have their notes completed for chapters 1-4 by Monday. There should be 5 facts per chapter. The chapter topics are listed in their journal where they are taking notes. Students will also study nonfiction text features and read good fit nonfiction articles. The January Reading Log is due on Thursday, February 1st. 

Spelling:  Students will receive a new spelling list and should complete three activities using the spelling menu.  The test will be on Friday, February 2nd.  The activities will also be due on Friday, February 2nd.   

Things to Remember:
Monday 1/29: There will be a math unit 4 test.  

Wednesday 1/31:  There will be a divide by 9 test.  
Thursday 2/1:  Students will be dismissed at 11 a.m. The January Reading Log is due today.
Friday 2/2:  There will be a spelling test and the three activities are due.