Weekly newsletter

I hope everyone is enjoying the cooler weather! If your child brings a jacket to school, please be sure that he or she knows to take it back home with them at the end of the day. Below is the newsletter for next week. Please be sure to review the spelling words, as well as the vocabulary words and their definitions with your child.

(Note: You can also access a PDF file of the weekly newsletter for viewing, downloading and printing by clicking here.)

September 19-23, 2011

Third Grade Teachers

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B. B. Comer Elementary

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Homework

Monday: Write this week’s spelling words 3 times each in your best handwriting.

Tuesday: Math page 39 (1-10)

Wednesday: Spelling Pretest today Study your spelling and vocabulary words and multiplication facts (Multiplication Quizzes are every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

Thursday: Math page 51 (7-26) For numbers 17-26, only round to the nearest hundred

Friday: Lesson 5 Spelling Test today The School News Quiz today Lesson 5 Vocabulary Quiz today Theme 1 (Lessons 1-4) Grammar Quiz Calendar of Events: · Remember to study multiplication facts. We are now taking timed tests in class. · We are still waiting for Board Approval for our first field trip. · Please make sure all textbooks are covered at all times. · Look for a note on Monday concerning our first field trip.

Spelling Words

Lesson 5 Theme 1 Review (These words review all skills from the past 4 weeks):

clock, drink, moved, waking, hopped, folded, stain, layer, team, slow, toast,

ladies, flies, bushes, games

No Challenge Words this week

Lesson 5 Vocabulary -

The School News

Please study these definitions with your child and practice using each word in a sentence. The students will be given a quiz on Friday that requires them to correctly match each vocabulary word to a sentence.

1. viewers – Viewers are people who watch something.

2. survive – To survive is to remain alive, even after great difficulties.

3. camouflage – When something has camouflage, it blends into its surroundings.

4. concealed – Something that is concealed is covered up so it can’t be seen.

5. independent – A person who is independent is someone who does things on his or her own.

6. donated – Something that has been donated has been given away for free.

7. media – The many ways that people communicate, including newspapers, magazines, and television, are all part of the media.

8. feature – When reporters do a special report on a topic, the report is called a feature.

9. image – An image is a picture of something or someone.

10. popular – Something that is popular is something that many people like.

Check Out This Website!

Multiplication Practice

www.multiplication.com

(This website has a lot of practice games and activities for the multiplication facts. Remember we are now doing discussing multiplication facts in class and giving students timed tests.)

From the Teacher:

In math class this week, we will begin Chapter 3 in the book. We will discuss Lessons 2-5 about comparing numbers, ordering numbers, and rounding numbers to the nearest 10s and 100s place. In third grade we combine Social Studies and Science into a block and alternate subjects each week. This week we will continue our Social Studies unit on Communities. We will finish our discussion on Chapter 1 What Are Communities and then we will begin Chapter 2 Kinds of Communities. We will be reading and discussing Rural, Suburban, and Urban Communities. We will also be reading the story, The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, and discussing the character traits of the main character, Philippe Petit. If you have access to the Internet at home, Philippe Petit would be an interesting person to do a Google search about. He is a real person who did a wire walk between the Twin Towers back in 1974.