Testing Week

Dear Third Grade Families,

What a great first week we had with all your children. They are full of energy and ready to learn. Looks like each of them grew over our Christmas vacation!

This coming week, we have our second round of STAR Reading and STAR Math testing. We will test Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Please try to refrain from pulling your child on these days so that they can take their assessments. Also, please make sure they get a good night's rest the nights before and a good breakfast in the morning.

As a third grade, we have been talking about setting academic goals by looking at our past STAR scores and seeing what areas we can grow in and what steps we will take to achieve that goal.

Reminder: Students are allowed to bring in their device Monday through Thursday to use during Reading class. 

Reminder:  Students are required to wear socks that match the school uniform.  The socks need to be either a solid white, black, or navy blue.  This is in the parent handbook.  If a student comes to school not wearing the proper uniform socks, they will forfeit their morning recess.

ELA 

Spelling skill for the week focuses on vowel teams plus the -r sound as in air, wear, & bare.
Grammar skill for the week focuses on adjectives and articles.
Reading skill for the week focuses on story structure and theme.

All students received their directions last week for the January book report, which will be due on January 30th. 

Math 
The students will complete their multiplication boot camp by the end of this week.  Beginning next week, we will have daily "Fast Fact" drills to begin our math lessons.  This will help to build fact fluency.  Please have your child practice at least 3X a week on multiplication.com
Every child should be playing one game on this site and then practicing their basic multiplication facts on multiplication.com.  All of the students, should also be utilizing our school math program, Dreambox, once a week for 15 minutes.  It's imperative that every child is practicing their basic multiplication facts at home in order to master the basic facts of multiplication.  It's a third grade expectation, that every third grader is fluent in their knowledge of basic multiplication.  Please know, that multiplication.com even provides free printable flashcards for families to print off for their children.   This will also assist your child in the skill of rote understanding of multiplication.

Here are some additional I-pad resources to assist your child in mastering their basic multiplication facts.

• Math Champions (free app on apple)

• Times Tables Quiz!  (free app on apple)

• Sushi Monster!  (free app on apple)

Social Studies
We will continue our lessons on the three branches of government.

Religion 
We will begin our lessons on the parts of the mass by creating a book to list the names of the five parts, what we experience during each part, and a small picture to represent specific parts of the mass.