Friday, September 16, 2011

Miss Pellin's Post
September 19th - September 23rd

Monday, September 26th is Johnny Appleseed’s birthday. We will be having a celebration! A note will be sent home as a reminder on Monday, September 19th. Your child will be asked to bring in a peeled, cored, and sliced apple to school on Monday, September 26th to be used to make applesauce for the class. We are looking for donations of small bowls, plastic spoons, and apple juice. If this is something you are interested in helping with, please email me or send the items in any day before Monday, September 26th. Thank you in advance for your help!


The Fifth Week of 2011 at School:

Science: This week we will begin chapter 4 on ecosystems.

Social Studies: This week we will have a continents and oceans quiz on Tuesday, September 20th.  Students will need to identify where the 5 oceans and 7 continents are located on a map.

Math: There will be a test on chapter 3 on Tuesday, September 20th.   Then we will begin chapter 4 on subtraction. 

On Monday, September 26th students will be tested on their basic math subtraction facts. Students will need to complete 40 subtraction problems in 2 minutes. Students will take practice subtraction tests in the days leading up to September 26th.  If students pass the test before September 26th, then they will not need to take it again.

Spelling: We are pretesting with List #4 on Monday of next week. Please remember that if your student receives a 90% or higher they will be working from the "challenge" list of words for their homework. All homework is due on Friday and if your student is taking the posttest, that will be Friday as well.

Reading: Now we will start to put the reading strategies we have learned to great use while reading various types of literature. We will always be reviewing/using all of the strategies, but for the coming weeks we will highly focus on the strategies of sequencing and summarizing. The students will use basal reading stories, supplemental short stories, and possibly novels to extend their practice of understanding what they read. As a third grade we are really highlighting oral and written responses to what was read and will integrate this throughout.  We will also work on an extended response where we use ideas from the text combined with our own ideas to answer a question.

English: This week we will finish unit 1.  Look for a study guide to come home this week.  There will be a test on Tuesday, September 27th.  There will be a D.O.L. quiz on Monday, September 19th.

P.E.: There will be a soccer test on Thursday, September 22nd. Study guides will go home on Monday. 

Intramural Games Permission slips will be sent home on Monday. They are due back by Friday. More information can be found on the PE website.
 
Things to Remember:

Monday 9/19: There will be a D.O.L. Quiz.
Tuesday 9/20: There will be a chapter 3 math test.  There will be a continents and oceans quiz. 
Thursday 9/22: There will be a soccer test in P.E.
Friday 9/23: There will be a Spelling "list #4" test.

Monday 9/26:It's Johny Appleseed's birthday celebration! There will be a subtraction math facts test.

 Contact Information:
E-Mail address:
mpellin@ccsd66.org
Voice mail: (630)783-5065