This week's newsletter

I hope everyone enjoyed their three-day weekend and had a happy Veterans' Day. Please review the vocabulary words, definitions and multiplication facts with your child every week.

November 14-18, 2011

Third Grade Teachers

http://bbces.tcboe.org/

B. B. Comer Elementary

256-315-5430

Homework:

Monday: · FLIP-IT Binder Reading: Choose at least one of the Fluency Builders for Lesson 10. Read the front and back and record on reading log · Work on Math Calendar · Reading Log (15 Minutes)

Tuesday: · FLIP-IT Binder Math: Do pages 28-31. Show all work! · Work on Math Calendar · Reading Log (15 Minutes)

Wednesday: · FLIP-IT Binder Reading: Choose at least one of the Fluency Builders for Lesson 11. Read the front and back and record on reading log · Work on Math Calendar · Reading Log (15 Minutes)

Thursday: · FLIP-IT Binder Math: Do pages 32-35. Show all work! · Work on Math Calendar · Reading Log (15 Minutes)

Friday: · Lesson 11 Spelling Test · Lesson 11 Vocabulary Test · Loved Best Story Test · Possessive Nouns Quiz

Calendar of Events:

· Progress Reports go home Tues., Nov. 15^th.

· PTO: Thurs., Nov. 17^th 5:30 P.M.

· Santa Pictures: Friday, Nov. 18^th

· Thanksgiving Holidays Nov. 23-25

· Completed November Math Calendar homework is due on Wed., Nov. 30^th.

· 2^nd Math Benchmark Test is Thurs., Dec. 1^st.

· Completed Reading Logs are due on Fri., Dec. 2. These MUST have parent/guardian initials for each entry.

Spelling Words

Lesson 11: C-le Words: title, table, uncle, apple, cable, bubble, beetle,

rattle, purple, little, middle, simple, saddle, trouble, scribble,

twinkle, scrambled, sprinkle, buckled, tablecloth

Loved Best

Lesson 11 Vocabulary

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. swooned – If you had a terrible shock or surprise that made you faint or fall, you might have swooned.

2. astonished – When you are amazed and surprised by something, you are astonished.

3. envious – If you feel envious, you want something that someone else has.

4. rivalry – People who have rivalry are competing against one another for something.

5. encouraging – An encouraging word from a friend make you feel that you can do something well.

6. brief – If something is brief, it does not take much time.

7. chuckling – If you are chuckling, you are laughing quietly to yourself.

8. soothing – Something that is soothing makes you feel calm.

9. sobbed – Someone who sobbed cried very hard.

10. praised – If you praised someone, you told that person that he or she did something well.

Check Out This Website!

Primary Games

http://www.primarygames.com

(This is a fun website with practice games and activities for all of the subject areas.)

From the Teacher:

In math class this week, we will be discussing strategies students can use with their multiplication facts. We will focus on using repeated addition, skip counting, arrays, intersecting lines, and drawing pictures to solve multiplication problems. In Grammar this week, we will discuss Possessive Nouns. This week we will continue our AMSTI Rocks and Minerals unit. Students received new reading logs for the month of November. Please remember that reading logs MUST show a total of 60 or more minutes of reading per week. November has 4 weeks (we will not count the week of Thanksgiving), so that would be 60 x 4 = 240 minutes total for the month of November. For the month of November, we will be reading the book, Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman and discussing the character trait of perseverance and maintaining good friendships. If you have access to the Internet at home, you can research the author, Mary Hoffman, to learn more about her and her books.