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Third Grade

Classroom Newsletter: NOVEMBER

Filed under: Uncategorized — ccoccia3 at 1:40 pm on Saturday, November 11, 2006



Reading – During the month of November, students in Room 3 will be reading the stories, ”Balto, the Dog Who Saved Nome”, “Little Grunt and the Big Egg”, “The Stories Julian Tells”, and “The Talent Show”. Students will be participating in rotations to complete activities using Story Study, Word Work, AR, and Guided Reading.

 Writing – We will continue working on five paragraph essays and  learning how to make our writings come alive by using lively leads, voice, and details.  We will be working on the characteristics of persuasive writing.

Math – Students have been working with number sense and place value. They have been using several strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems. We will now focus on collecting, organizing, and summarizing data. Students will learn how to create line plots and bar graphs,

Social Studies – In Social Studies we will continue to learn about Government. We have worked on a couple short skits to better understand terms such as judge, mayor, elect, court, and consequences. Students will be learning about taxes, private and public property, and Government services.

Word Wall Words - (October words) city, community, countries,  exciting, getting, laughed, pretty, prettier, prettiest, schools, to, too, two, and was (November words) beautiful, before, discover, enough, first, hopeless, journal, let’s, recycle, their, there, they’re, went, and went

 Please continue to check and sign students Friday Reports that go home each Friday. Thank you!!

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