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The banana split reward for learning multiplication facts has ended. However, it is important that you continue studying and reviewing multiplication facts with your child. Not only is it important for them to learn these as they progress to fourth grade, but also as an incentive we will begin a new reward after spring break. Study and review! The better your child does and the higher up they go on the levels of multiplication facts, the better their reward will be for this final 9 weeks!

March 12-16, 2012

Third Grade Teachers

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B. B. Comer Elementary

256-315-5430

Homework:

Monday: · FLIP-IT Binder Reading: Choose at least one of the Fluency Builders for Lesson 25. Read the front and back and record on reading log · Reading Log (15 Minutes)

Tuesday: · FLIP-IT Binder Math: Do pages 32-35. Show all work! · Reading Log (15 Minutes)

Wednesday: · FLIP-IT Binder Reading: Choose at least one of the Fluency Builders for Lesson 25. Read the front and back and record on reading log · Reading Log (15 Minutes)

Thursday: · FLIP-IT Binder Math: Do pages 36-40. Show all work! · Reading Log (15 Minutes)

Friday: · Lesson 25 Spelling Test · Lesson 25 Vocabulary Test · The Robodogs of Greenville Story Test · Theme 5 Grammar Quiz

Calendar of Events:

· Tues., March 13^th: Cookie Dough Pick-Up

· Thurs., March 15^th: Report Cards go home

March 22^nd: Spring Picture Orders and Money due

· Field Trip permission forms and $12.00 are due by Friday, April 6^th.

· Please remember to be collecting Box Tops for Education.

· March Reading Logs will be due Friday, March 23^rd. 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

Lesson 25: Review of Lessons 21-24: choose, booth, foot, bruise, threw,

soft, cause, thaw, false, preschool, misspell, indoors, apart,

across, around

The Robodogs of Greenville

Lesson 25 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. require – Something that is required is needed.

2. functional – Something that serves as a purpose is functional.

3. inhabitant – The people or animals that in a certain place are the inhabitants of that place.

4. amazement – Amazement is a feeling of great wonder and surprise.

5. ample- An amount that is ample is enough or more than is needed.

6. responsibility – A responsibility is something you are expected to do.

7. futuristic – A futuristic story tells how things might be in the future.

8. realistic – A book that is realistic describes things as they really are.

9. confused – A confused person is mixed up.

10. shifting – If air is shifting, it is moving or changing.

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 3^rd 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 number and shape patterns, geometry, and coordinate grids. 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. In Grammar this week, we will be reviewing Lessons 21-24 which includes the Verb Be, Main and Helping Verbs, and Present, Past, and Future Tense Verbs. This week we will continue reading and discussing Chapter 1 about Plant Growth and Development in our Science books. For the month of March, we will be reading the book, The Three Questions 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.