August 27th - August 31st

Welcome to week two of third grade! This week the students will be starting homework. Reminder that homework is assigned Monday - Thursday. Reading homework is every night, as well as a sheet (front and back) of math. The math is a continuation of the work we have done in class that day. Students must return the reading log and math homework the next day. We will correct math homework right away the following day.

MATH - What we are doing this week in Math.

Monday: 1-4 Find the Halfway Number
Tuesday: 1-5 Rounding
Wednesday: 1-6 More Rounding
Thursday: 1-7 Problem Solving: Make an Organized List
Friday: Chapter 1 Review and Test in class

Reading:
This week in reading we will be continuing our Benchmark Advance Interim 1 Assessment. This is a long test and is broken up in to three days. Students will be assessed on their comprehension skills. Once we are finished with this assessment we will begin Unit 1 of Benchmark. The first Unit is Government with the essential question of "Why do people participate in government?"
We will be getting to know our textbook with a 5-4-3-2-1 activity.

Scavenger Hunt (use the textbook)
5 Important people - who are they and what did they do?
4 New vocabulary words - Page number and meaning (best guess)
3 Visuals - What does it show, page number, and why does it interest you?
2 Articles that you are interested to read and why?
1 Cool thing you found in the whole textbook and why?

Writing:
This week we will be working on narrative writing. The students will be getting their writer's notebook and being introduced to the Circle Thinking Map. For some students it is familiar, but others will be learning it.

Welcome to 3rd Grade!

Welcome to 3rd Grade at NW! I am so thrilled to be back at work and ready for the 2018 - 2019 school year. There are many great things planned for the year. This week was a busy and fun filled week. It was wonderful getting to know all my new students. We spent some time getting to know about our favorite meals, as well as likes and dislikes.

Classroom Rules - All week we have been working on classroom rules. The students learned about being respectful, staying on task, and being organized. They are working on creating a poster of the rules as a great reminder. Along with the rules we came up with some classroom goals to keep us focused on learning and staying safe.

1. Be nice to each other
2. Be safe
3. Respect the speaker
4. Follow directions

Classroom Goals
1. Have 20 recesses without a problem on the playground.
2. Go 12 days with everyone returning their homework.
3. Go 16 days where everyone is on time for school.
4. Keep the class library organized for nine days in a row.

Classroom Homework Policy

Homework will be given Monday - Thursday. The students will have to log their reading each night. They will also have a page of math from their math workbook. The pages are labeled reteaching and practice. Some nights our class will have science or social studies when we are doing a class project. Students are to return the homework the next day so that I can check and we can correct the math homework.