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Soon after we return from next week's spring break, it will be time to begin ARMT testing. This testing will be held April 10-13. To help students prepare for this test, we are reviewing reading and math skills they need to be familiar with for the ARMT. Please continue to review and study these skills and words with your child. Also, remember to continue studying and reviewing multiplication facts!

March 19-23, 2012

Third Grade Teachers

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B. B. Comer Elementary

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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)

Tuesday: · FLIP-IT Binder Math: Do pages 41-44. Show all work! · Reading Log (15 Minutes)

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)

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

Calendar of Events:

· Our AMSTI Specialist will be here Tues., March 20^th 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 22^nd: 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 6^th.

· Please remember to collect 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

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

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 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.