Newsletter

Here is a look ahead at next week's newsletter. Please remember to continue studying and reviewing multiplication facts every day, as well as the vocabulary words and definitions through the week.

December 5-9, 2011

Third Grade Teachers

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B. B. Comer Elementary

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Homework:

Monday: · FLIP-IT Binder Reading: Choose at least one of the Fluency Builders for Lesson 14. Read the front and back and record on reading log · Work on December Math Calendar · Reading Log (15 Minutes)

Tuesday: · FLIP-IT Binder Math: Do pages 46-49. Show all work! · Work on December Math Calendar · Reading Log (15 Minutes)

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

Thursday: · FLIP-IT Binder Math: Do pages 50-53. Show all work! · Work on December Math Calendar · Reading Log (15 Minutes)

Friday: · Lesson 13 Spelling Test · Lesson 13 Vocabulary Test · A Tree Is Growing Story Test · Subject and Object Pronouns Quiz

Calendar of Events:

· Completed December Math Calendars and Reading Logs are due on Friday, December 16^th.

· Our Christmas Cartoon Movie Marathon Multiplication Reward will be on Friday, December 16^th. Be studying those facts!

· Please remember to send the item that was marked on your letter for the Christmas Party on December 20^th.

· Also, remember to send any donation money (this includes loose change) for our charitable donation project. Thank you!

Spelling Words

Lesson 13: Consonants /s/ c; /j/ g, dge: ice, age, rice, edge, stage, giant,

range, judge, ledge, police, recent, bridge, office, strange, central,

celery, ceiling, difference, margin, imagine

A Tree Is Growing

Lesson 13 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 or definition.

1. columns – A column is a tall, circle structure that holds up part of a building.

2. absorb – Something absorbs a liquid if it soaks up the liquid.

3. protects – When you protect something, you keep it safe.

4. rustling – When objects are rustling, they are moving and making soft sounds.

5. dissolve - When something dissolves, it mixes completely with a liquid.

6. particles- Tiny pieces of something are called particles.

7. tugged – If you tugged something, you pulled it hard.

8. paused – If you paused, you stopped what you were doing for just a moment.

9. scavenger- An animal is a scavenger if it collects leftover and unwanted objects.

10. self-sufficient – If something is self-sufficient, it makes everything it needs.

Check Out This Website!

Fun Brain

http://www.funbrain.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 discuss Chapter 12: Division Strategies. We will be learning how to divide using circles and dots, repeated subtraction, arrays, and fact families. In Grammar this week, we will discuss Subject and Object Pronouns. This week we will begin our Christmas Around the World unit. We will be learning about a few holiday traditions from the United States, Sweden, Mexico, France, Germany, and Italy. Students received new reading logs for the month of December; these are due Friday, December 16^th. There will only be two full weeks on these reading logs, so we will be expecting a total of 120 minutes of reading for December. The completed December Math Calendars are also due on Friday, December 16^th. For the month of December, we will be reading the book, Dear Willie Rudd by Libba Moore Gray and discussing the author’s purpose for writing the story. If you have access to the Internet at home, you can research the author to learn more about her and her books.