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Please remember to have your child bring a towel with them on Friday for Field Day.

May 7-11, 2012

Third Grade Teachers

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B. B. Comer Elementary

256-315-5430

Homework:

Monday:   ·          No School-School Holiday

Tuesday:   ·          Math page 617 (1-30).  Write problems and answers ·          Read for 15 minutes

Wednesday: ·          Read for 15 minutes

Thursday: ·          Lesson 28 Spelling Test ·          Lesson 28 Vocabulary Test ·          The Science Fair Story Test ·          Contractions Quiz

Friday: ·          Field Day Today! ·          Please remember to pay your $4.00 by today!

Calendar of Events:

·         Scholastic Book Orders will be due Friday, May 11^th.  This will be our final order for the year.

·         May 3-May 7: School Holiday

·         May 11^th: Field Day

·         May 17^th: Awards Day Grades 3, 4, 5 at 12:00

·         May 24^th: Last Student Day

·         There will not be an official Reading Log for the month of May.  However, students do need to continue the practice of reading for 15 minutes each night in preparation for DIBELS testing.

·         There will not be a May Math Calendar. 

Spelling Words

Lesson 28: Suffixes –able, -ible, -less, -ous: doable, famous, careless,

various, endless, reliable, nervous, useless, flexible, washable,

helpless, terrible, valuable, dangerous, powerless, suitable,

restlessly, countless, responsible, remarkable

The Science Fair

Lesson 28 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. humor-When you have a sense of humor, it means you enjoy telling and hearing about things that are funny.

2.  abroad-If you go abroad, you go overseas to a different country.

3.  preparation-Preparation is everything you do to get ready for something.

4.  gimmick-A gimmick is a trick or a way to grab people’s attention.

5.  sprinkled-Something that has been sprinkled has had tiny pieces or drops of something scattered all over it.

6.  expand-When things expand, they get bigger.

7.  erupt-Something that erupts breaks out of something that holds it.

8.  thorough-If you do something in a thorough way, you do a careful and complete job.

9.  deliberation-Deliberation is thought and discussion that comes before making a decision.

10.  grainy-If something is grainy, it is not smooth but has many small, hard pieces.

Check Out This Website!

IXL

www.IXL.com/signin/bbcomer

(This is a math practice website. 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 discuss Chapter 30 which is about division with remainders.  In Grammar this week, we will be discussing contractions.  We will continue Lesson 28 in Language Arts this week.  All Language Arts testing will be Thursday, May 10^th due to Field Day on the 11^th.  In Science class this week, we will continue our AMSTI Chemical unit.  For the month of April, we started reading the book, Poetry for Young People by Langston Hughes and have been completing activities and poetry related to this book.  We will continue this book this week.  If you have access to the Internet at home, you can research the author to learn more about him and his books.