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I hope each of you enjoyed the Christmas and New Year's break. As we begin this first week back to school in the new year, I hope you will strive to work with your child each night on his or her homework assignments, including the monthly math calendar and reviewing multiplication facts and vocabulary words/definitions.

January 2-6, 2012

Third Grade Teachers

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B. B. Comer Elementary

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Homework:

Monday: No School

Tuesday: Write spelling words 3 times each Reading Log (20 Minutes)

Wednesday: Reading Log (20 Minutes) Study spelling and vocabulary words Study multiplication facts

Thursday: Math page 329 (6-25) Reading Log (20 Minutes)

Friday: Lesson 15 Spelling Test Lesson 15 Vocabulary Test Ask the Experts Story Test Theme 3 Grammar Quiz

Calendar of Events:

• We will begin multiplication quizzes again next week. Please see the note that was sent home for further details on our new reward.
• January Math Calendars will begin next week and will be due on Friday, January 27^th.
• January Reading Logs started this week! These will be due on Friday, January 27^th. We will be expecting a total of 240 minutes on this reading log. It only counts if each entry has parent initials. These are a Reading grade each month. Please be sure you help your child complete the required 60 minutes per week.
• No School on Monday, January 16^th.

Ask the Experts

Lesson 15 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. issue – An issue is an edition of a newspaper or magazine.

2. advice – If you give someone advice, you tell what you think the person should do.

3. consult – When you consult someone, you ask him or her for information.

4. recommend – When you recommend something, you tell someone that you think it is good.

5. sensible – Someone who is sensible makes good decisions and judgments.

6. devise – To devise is to figure out a way to do something.

7. luscious – Something that is luscious appeals to your senses, such as your sense of taste.

8. shudder – If you shudder, you are trembling from fear or from being cold.

9. expertise – If someone has expertise, he or she knows a lot about a particular topic or skill.

10. correspondence – If you send correspondence, you are communicating in writing.

Spelling Words

Lesson 15: Review of Lessons 11-14: title, rattle, saddle, gnat, knight,

wrench, rough, edge, police, giant, judge, hotel, seven, broken, taken

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Fun Brain

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(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 Chapters 15 and 16. We will be learning about different ways to collect and record data. In Grammar this week, we will review all skills taught during Lessons 11-14. There will be a quiz on these skills on Friday. In our Science/Social Studies block, we will be reading and discussing Chapter 7 in our Communities books. Students received new reading logs for the month of January; these are due on Friday, January 27^th. There will be four full weeks on these reading logs, so we will be expecting a total of 240 minutes of reading for January. The completed January Math Calendars are also due on Friday, January 27^th. For the month of January, we will be reading the book, My Mama Had a Dancing Heart 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.