Newsletter

The time for our multiplication reward is fast approaching. Please continue to carefully review and study the multiplication facts with your child every night and other times as often as possible so they can score 100's on their quizzes and continue to move up to the next set of multiplication facts. This Friday, March 9, we will have our banana split reward party for those who have done well on their multiplication fact quizzes. REMEMBER: Each student will only receive the part(s) of the banana split they have earned by making 100's on their quizzes (bowl, banana, ice cream, etc.). This is an incentive for the students to do well and work hard at learning their multiplication facts. Once again this week we will take the quizzes on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, then do the reward party on Friday. Please continue to study!

Third Grade Newsletter

March 5-9, 2012

HOMEWORK

Monday:

® FLIP-IT Binder Reading: Lesson 24. Choose at least one of the Fluency Builders; read the front and back and record on reading log.

® Reading Log (15 minutes)

Tuesday:

® Math FLIP binder pages 25-28. Show all work.

® Reading Log (15 minutes)

Wednesday:

® FLIP-IT Binder Reading: Lesson 24. Choose at least one of the Fluency Builders; read the front and back and record on reading log.

® Reading Log (15 minutes)

Thursday:

® Math FLIP binder pages 29-31. Show all work.

® Reading Log (15 minutes)

Friday:

® Lesson 24 Spelling Test

® Lesson 24 Vocabulary Test

® “Ramona Quimby, Age 8” Story Test

® Past-tense and future-tense verbs Grammar Quiz

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.

® Jump Rope For Heart kick off was Feb.

24, 2012. Money will be due on March 9^th.

® Fri., March 9: Multiplication banana split reward

® Thurs., March 15: Report Cards go home

® Field Trip, to the McWane Center on April

27^th, 2012, permission form and money ($12.00) due April 6^th, 2012.

Weekly Math Focus:

1. Elapsed time to the hour

2. Elapsed time to the day (with calendars)

3. Measuring using centimeters

4. Multiplication (i.e. 23x9 or 578x6)

5. Use coins to make change up to $1.00

6. Daily math intervention groups

7. Division (i.e. 36 divided by 6)

8. Equivalent fractions

9. Identify data as categorical (words) or numerical (numbers)

10. Probability—determining the likelihood of different outcomes

SPELLING WORDS

Lesson 24 “Ramona Quimby, Age 8”

1. upon ...... 6. alike ....... 11. ever

2. above .... 7. awake ... 12. amount

3. cover ......8. afraid ..... 13. ahead

4. apart ...... 9. across ... 14. alive

5. either .... 10. agree .... 15.around

Challenge Words

16. among .......... 17. again .......... 18. about

19. applause ..... 20. appear

Vocabulary Words

Lesson 24 “Ramona Quimby, Age 8”

1. individually – If you speak to your friends one at a time, you speak to them

individually.

2. affordable – If you have enough money to buy something, that thing is

affordable.

3. presentation – If you describe or perform something in front of a group of

people, you are putting on a presentation.

4. effective – When you get the result you want, then your actions have been

effective.

5. clutter – If a place such as your desk or your room has clutter, it is messy and

full of things you do not really need.

6. mentioned – If you mentioned something, you talked about it briefly.

7. beckoned – If you beckoned to someone, you used your hand to signal him or her to come to you.

8. flustered – If something flustered you, it made you forget what you were

saying or doing.

9. remark- A remark is something that is said about something.

10. visible – When something is visible, you can see it.