Friday, January 6, 2012

Newsletter

Parents, please remember that multiplication quizzes will start again next week, and a new reward is being offered for those who do well and progress through the quizzes. Please continue to study and review the multiplications facts with your child each night. Also, the January math calendar is due on Jan. 27, and it does count as a grade.

January 9-13, 2012

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 16. Read the front and back and record on reading log

· Work on January Math Calendar

· Reading Log (15 Minutes)

Tuesday:

· FLIP-IT Binder Math: Do pages 62-66. Show all work!

· Work on January Math Calendar

· Reading Log (15 Minutes)

Wednesday:

· FLIP-IT Binder Reading: Choose at least one of the Fluency Builders for Lesson 16. Read the front and back and record on reading log

· Work on January Math Calendar

· Reading Log (15 Minutes)

Thursday:

· FLIP-IT Binder Math: Do pages 67-70. Show all work!

· Work on January Math Calendar

· Reading Log (15 Minutes)


Friday:

· Lesson 16 Spelling Test

· Lesson 16 Vocabulary Test

· Lon Po Po Story Test

· Adjectives Quiz


Calendar of Events:

· We will begin multiplication quizzes again this week. Please see the note that was sent home for further details on our new reward.

· January Math Calendars will be due on Friday, January 27th.

· January Reading Logs started last week! These will be due on Friday, January 27th. 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.

· Please be sure to send new supplies with your child when they need them. Many students no longer have pencils to write with in class. Students are allowed to have one handheld pencil sharpener in their crayon boxes as long as they do not cause a distraction in class.

· No School on Monday, January 16th.


Lon Po Po

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. charming – If you are charming, you have a way of pleasing people with what you say and how you act.

2. racket – If you make a lot of noise, you are making a racket.

3. ingenious – If you do something very clever or imaginative, you are ingenious.

4. outwit – If you trick someone by doing something clever, you outsmart, or outwit, them.

5. tender – Something, like food, that is tender is soft and easy to chew or cut.

6. delighted – When you are very happy about something, you are delighted.

7. brittle – Things that are brittle are so stiff and hard that they break easily.

8. embraced – If you hugged someone, you embraced that person.

9. cunning – Someone who is cunning uses smart and tricky ways to get what he or she wants.

10. disguised – If you are disguised, you are wearing something that keeps people from knowing who you are.


Spelling Words

Lesson 15: r-Controlled Vowel /ôr/: coarse, warm, soar, wore, swarm,

form, story, warn, bore, sport, glory, force, course, before, fourth,

explorer, forest, scoreboard, fourteen, seashore


Check Out This Website!

IXL

www.IXL.com/signin/bbcomer

(This is a math practice website. We sent home notes about this site with the report cards last week. Enter your child’s username and password and click Sign in. Choose 3rd grade. This is an excellent practice for the math skills we teach in class each day. Username: (type your child’s first initial and last name@bbcomer Example: jdoe@bbcomer Password: your child’s lunch number)


From the Teacher:

In math class this week, we will discuss some geometry skills found in Chapter 19. In the upcoming weeks, we will be introducing a lot of math skills in an effort to prepare the students for the next math benchmark assessment at the end of February. In Grammar this week, we will discuss Adjectives. This week we will continue to read and discuss Chapter 7 in our Communities books. Students received new reading logs for the month of January; these are due Friday, January 27th. 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 27th. For the month of January, we will be reading the book, My Mama Had a Dancing Heart by Libba Moore Gray and comparing and contrasting the characters in this story and the seasons of the year. If you have access to the Internet at home, you can research the author to learn more about her and her books.

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