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Current Units of Study

Language Arts: Celebrating Traditions Themed Literature---Story of the Week:  The Talking Cloth

 Comprehension Skill-noting details

Cursive handwriting-- lowercase cursive letters.

Paragraph Writing---main idea with supporting details.

Reading Power-connecting, visualizing, and inferring.

Math:  MULTIPLICATION!  We continue our study of multiplication.  Our students are so excited about learning to multiply!  We have enjoyed listening to our multiplication rap CD and working out of our class multiplication basket to help us study and review our facts.   It is time to start working on memorizing multiplication facts!    Flashcards are a helpful tool to have at home to help your students practice their multiplication facts daily.  Each day, students are given a "one minute multiplication" memorization quiz.  Students move and progress at their own pace through their multiplication facts.   We have all memorized our 0's and 1's.  After a student masters a set of facts, they write their name on our Multiplication Wall of Fame under that fact name.  The students are doing a GREAT job memorizing their facts.  Please continue to study multiplication facts nightly.  We hope to have all facts (0's-12's) memorized in the next 5 weeks. Thank you for helping your third grader learn all of their facts. 

Science:  Plant Growth and Adaptations

We have been growing Wisconsin Fast Plants in our classroom.  We continue to observe their growth and changes.

We will be participating in a book study of From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons 

Social Studies:  Government

We are learning about how our govenment works.   We are working as a classroom community to learn to solve problems and help one another.   This is a great way for us to practice what we are learning about our government.   

 

 Homework

 Monday-Thursday--read for 20 minutes and complete reading log, WTW activities, AM assignment, study Multiplication facts

 

A note about AM--as AM math assignments are coming in, we are scanning and scoring them.  Please look for a TOPS report that outlines your child's performance on each AM assignment.  You will find it stapled to the assignments.  If a students finishes their AM assignment early in the week and turns in in , then another AM assignment is assigned.   We, as a class, decided that we want to be the best mathematicians we can be; therefore, we decided to practice, practice, practice!  The additional assignment is due by Friday as well. 

 

 Announcements
Important Dates to Remember 
by Ashley G Cuesta		 11/17/2009 7:10 PM
November 20     School Spirit Day--Show your Parsley Pride, wear RED, WHITE, and BLUE!
 
November 25     Teacher Workday
 
November 26-27 Thanksgiving Holiday
 
Food Drive 
by Ashley G Cuesta		 11/8/2009 7:57 PM
Parsley's Student Council is sponsoring the Friends Feeding Friends Food Drive from November 9 until November 23.  Each year Parsley students have donated over 2,000 pounds of food for this drive.  Bags for this drive have been donated by Lowes Food...
 
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