Newsletter

Remember to continue reviewing and practicing multiplication facts, as well as vocabulary words. Also, it is important to remember that our Math Benchmark Test will be February 23, so please review math lessons with your child.

Ms. Murphy’s

Third Grade Newsletter

February 13^th-17^th, 2012

HOMEWORK

Monday:

® FLIP-IT Binder Reading: Choose at least one of the Fluency Builders for Lesson 21. Read the Front and Back and record on Binder reading log.

® Reading Log (15 minutes)

Tuesday:

® Math FLIP binder pages 1-4

® Reading Log (15 minutes)

Wednesday:

® FLIP-IT Binder Reading: Choose at least one of the Fluency Builders for Lesson 21. Read the Front and Back and record on Binder reading log.

® Reading Log (15 minutes)

Thursday:

® Math FLIP binder pages 5-8

® Reading Log (15 minutes)

Friday:

® Spelling Test today

® Vocabulary Test today

® Story Test today

® Grammar Test

IMPORTANT:

® We are still taking our multiplication tests to earn our banana splits. Continue to memorize these at home as we learn them at school. They must make 100 on the timed test to earn parts of their banana splits. We will take tests every Tues., Wed., and Thurs..

® The Sweet Heart Pageant will be Sat., March 3^rd.

® Spring Pictures will be Feb. 17^th.

® Math Benchmark Feb. 23^rd. Keep Studying J

Website for Multiplication

www.multiplication.com

SPELLING WORDS

Lesson 21

1. threw .......... 11. choose

2. cool ............ 12. balloon

3. foot ............ 13. cartoon

4. cook .......... 14. afternoon

5. bruise ......... 15. understood

6. hook .......... 16. loosely

7. tool ............ 17. cocoon

8. brook ........ 18. raccoon

9. booth ......... 19. cookbook

10. school ...... 20. neighborhood

Vocabulary Words

Lesson 21 “Antartic Ice”

1. conserved – If something is rare and important, it should be conserved, or kept

carefully.

2. strict – If you are stern and demand obedience, you are strict.

3. harsh – If something is hard to stand up to, like a blizzard, it is harsh.

4. bleak – If something is cold and gloomy, it is bleak.

5. absence – An absence means that something or someone is not present.

6. shelters – Something that shelters you protects you and keeps you safe.

7. permanently – If something stays one way forever, it stays that way

permanently.

8. drifts – When something drifts, it moves along without direction.

9. scarce – Something is scarce if there is not much of it to be found.

10. dim – It is dim when there is not much light.