Week of Oct.30 -Nov.2

• Sorry for the late update to the blog!  I was away all weekend.
• There will be no school on Friday, November 3rd due to a PD day.
• Please be sure students are reading each night and fill in their nightly reading log.
• Gr. 3 math- practice your facts each night.  We will be having a quiz on Thursday.  It will include facts to 18, skip counting, and a few more questions on place value.
• Words for the week:  Grade 3- name, sale, make, made, pain, rain, mail, Sunday, stay, today, eighty, eighteen
• Grade 4- make, change, shape, frame, tail, waist, painter, faint, Sunday, today, Wednesday, painful, eighteen, weight, drain
• I am in the process of marking the personal recounts and I will hand them back with the rubric when I'm done. Please sign and be sure to return these to me for their file.  
• Book orders are due this Thursday.
• Have a great week.

Week of October 23-27

• I hope all of the students enjoyed their long weekend!
• We decided as a class that our good copy of our recount writing will be due on Wednesday, October 25th.  We have had quite a bit of in-class time to work on these and they will have an hour on Monday.  Please make sure they are using their rubrics to double check their work before handing it in.
• Spelling words for this week:Grade 3- spin, spine, not, note, stripe, pancake, us , use, plate, flame, car , care

          Grade 4-  pancake, stripe, spine, extreme,globe, use, escape, arrive, surprise, beware, skate, became, flame, smile, scrape

• Picture day will be Friday, October 27th.
• Grade 3 math-I will be starting to send a duotang with students.  I will talk to them about what I expect them to do for homework.  I am thinking it will be 2 pages, but they will have to week to finish at home and then return to me by the end of the week.  We are still working on skip counting by 3,4,5,10,100, and 25, forwards and backwards to 1000 and our adding and subtracting of math facts to 18.
• Fall is definitely in the air!  Please make sure to start tucking hats and mitts into kit bags.
• Have a wonderful week everyone!

Week of Oct. 16-18

• This is a 3-day week(no school on Thurs. and Friday).  The annual convention for teachers is on Thursday and Friday.
• I will not be having spelling words this week due to the fact that it is a short one.  I will be reviewing high frequency words with the students this week.
• Thank you for signing and returning the Health quiz this week. We will be moving into a unit of Social Studies next week.
• I sent off our book orders on Wed. so I am hoping that they will be here by this Wed.
• Gr. 3 math- this month we are focusing on math facts to 18 and skip counting by 3,4,5,10,25, and 100 forward and backward to 1000.   The students should be practicing their facts on a nightly basis.  They need to have a 3 second recall.
• Please be sure your child is reading for 20 min. each evening and sign the purple log.  We are about to finish our first read aloud called "Wonder" and the students have been hanging on every word!
• Students are working on recount writing and will be having a piece due Wednesday, Oct. 18 approx.  I may change this date depending on how much we get done next week. 
• Have a great week everyone!

Week of Oct. 10-13

• I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
• Please continue reading 20 min each night. Some of the duotangs are not getting signed, so please remember to do so.
• We had a health quiz on Thursday.  I will hand them back to be signed once everyone has the quiz written.  Please sign and return to school.  Our next unit will be a social studies unit on what it means to be an explorer.
• Math quiz for gr. 3 will be going home on Tuesday.  Please sign and return to me.  This month we are focusing on math facts to 18 and skip counting by 5,10,100,3,4 and 25 forwards and backwards.  Please be practicing the adding and subtracting facts each night. I did send home a couple of laminated fact sheets/strategies, however the flash cards from the dollar store are a great way to practice as well. The students love these!
• Book orders are due Wednesday, Oct. 11th.
• The students completed some Thanksgiving writing pieces and they are displayed in our room.  These will be going into their scrapbooks and you can have a peek at parent teacher interviews.  The other pieces of writing that I will be assessing will always come home to you to see, sign and return to school (I keep it throughout the year).  Our next writing piece will be some descriptive writing pieces on Halloween and personal recounts.  
• Thank you for all of your support at home and have a great week!