March 19-23, 2012
Third Grade Teachers
B. B. Comer Elementary
256-315-5430
| Homework: |
| Monday: · FLIP-IT Binder Reading: Choose at least one of the Fluency Builders from Lessons 21-25. Read the front and back and record on reading log · Reading Log (15 Minutes)
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| Tuesday: · FLIP-IT Binder Math: Do pages 41-44. Show all work! · Reading Log (15 Minutes)
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| Wednesday: · FLIP-IT Binder Reading: Choose at least one of the Fluency Builders for Lessons 21-25. Read the front and back and record on reading log · Reading Log (15 Minutes)
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| Thursday: · FLIP-IT Binder Math: Do pages 45-48. Show all work! · Reading Log (15 Minutes) |
| Friday: · ARMT Practice Words Spelling Test · ARMT Practice Words Vocabulary Test · Math Test on Multiplication, Division, and Equivalent Fractions
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Calendar of Events:
· Our AMSTI Specialist will be here Tues., March 20th to help get our next AMSTI kit ready for the students. If any parent volunteers can come any time during that day to help her, we would greatly appreciate it.
· Thurs., March 22nd: Spring Picture Orders and Money due
· March 26-30: Spring Break
· April 10-13: ARMT Testing
· Field Trip permission forms and $12.00 are due by Friday, April 6th.
· Please remember to collect Box Tops for Education.
· March Reading Logs will be due Friday, March 23rd. 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.
Spelling Words
ARMT Practice Spelling Words: endangered, enormous, erupt, evacuate,
examine, extinct, fossil, frigid, habitat, improve, injure, journey,
migrate, mission, observe
ARMT Practice Week
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. endangered-in a dangerous situation
2. enormous-very large
3. erupt-to throw out rocks, hot ashes, and lava with great force
4. evacuate-to move away from an area because it is dangerous there
5. examine-to look carefully at something
6. extinct-having died out
7. fossil-the remains of a plant or animal from millions of years ago
8. frigid-very cold
9. habitat-the place and natural conditions in which a plant or an animal lives
10. improve-to make better
11. injure-to hurt or harm yourself or someone else
12. journey-a long trip
13. migrate-to move from one country or region to another
14. mission-a special job or task.
15. observe-to watch someone or something closely
Check Out This Website!
IXL
(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 continue a review of all standards taught during the First through Third Nine Weeks. We will focus on multiplication, division, and equivalent fractions. We will also continue daily math intervention groups. We are doing this in an effort to prepare the students for the ARMT+ test in April. During Language Arts time, we will be preparing the students for the upcoming ARMT test. We will NOT go on to Lesson 26 this week. We do expect the students to learn the 15 words above for the spelling and vocabulary tests this Friday. This week we will read and discuss Chapter 9 in our Communities book which is about spending and saving money. For the month of March, we will be reading the book, The Three Questions by Jon J. Muth (based on a story by Leo Tolstoy) and completing activities related to this book. If you have access to the Internet at home, you can research the author to learn more about him and his books.
