Week of January 21st

Welcome Back after what seemed like a very long vacation!  It’s good to be back and the kids seemed very ready to settle back into their routine. (well, almost all of them!)

The last Acuity test before ISTEP is coming up.  We will take Math Acuity on February 3 from 10-11 and English/Language Arts Acuity on Tuesday, February 11^th from 1-2.  Please encourage your child to work through his/her acuity lessons-watch for the Acuity Letter coming home with your third grader this week!
 

The 3^rd graders also have the IREAD test coming up.  It is scheduled for the week of March 17^th. We will be reviewing lots of reading and language arts skill for this test in the next month.  Our 2^nd graders will review with us to help prepare them for the same test the following year.

Please remember that our entire class will perform with the third graders on Thursday, March 20^th.  Be sure to mark your calendars for this special event. See the picture for this program below!!

Here’s what we are doing this week:

Reading:  We will read two stories from our Storyworks Magazine focusing on fact/opinion and  context clues.

Spelling:  Rock List
 

English:  We learned the RUPR song last week!Be sure you have your child sing it to you and tell you what it’s for!  We will be working on adding details and using purple WOW! Words in our writing this week. Students will also be analyzing their past writing pieces to determine their strengths and weaknesses.

Math 2: Our next two lessons will be about Polyhedrons-reviewing 3-dimensional shapes and identifying bases of pyramids and prisms .
 

Students will review for a Unit 6 Test on Thursday and the test will be given on Friday.

 
Math 3:  3^rd Graders will review for their Unit 6 test on Tuesday and the test will be given on

Wednesday.  We will then begin Unit 7 which is about fractions and probability.

Science:   We will continue our second week of rocks. Students have learned about sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks. Identifying minerals, and Indiana rocks. Next week, we will be studying the rock cycles, how erosion changes rocks, and wrapping up the unit on Friday.

Have a great day off Monday!