Third grade news                              October 18, 2010

Wednesday is Parent Teacher Conference.  You may pick-up report cards from 1:00 – 6:00.  HJpe to see you then…..

Studies for this week: 

Reading:   Unit 2 page 201 “Danger- Icebergs” Test on Friday.  Please read the story several times with your child and ask them questions about the story.

Spelling:  Unit 8 page 60.    Pretest Thursday and test on Friday.  We are writing our words in cursive.

Language: pages 96-99. Singular and plural possessive nouns, combining sentences by joining two nouns, and abbreviations. Test on Friday.

Math: Chapter 4 and 5. We will work on this for the next two weeks.  Addition and subtraction.  We will also be working on multiplication facts.  It is very important we memorize these facts.

Social Studies: pages 72-77 People move from place to place.  Test Thursday.  Study guide in home work folder.

Anytime work is sent home, I encourage you to review the work with your child. 

Spelling words and Vocabulary words for the week of October 18, 2010

1.      clown

2.      round

3.      crowd

4.      sound

5.      bow

6.      would

7.      loud

8.      ground

9.      crown

10.  count

11.  cloud

12.  mouth

13.  town

14.  out

15.  bounce

16.  sprout

Vocabulary Words:

alert - watchful

        breaks - comes apart

          melt - turns from a solid into a liquid by heating

          ocean - a great body of salt water that covers three-fourths of Earth's surface                 

          thousands - ten hundreds

          glacier - a large mass of ice formed from snow on high ground

          iceberg - a large mass of ice floating in the sea

          ice pack - a large area of ice floating in the sea

          lifeboats - strong open boats with oars, specially built for saving lives at sea

         Titanic - large ship thought to be unsinkable that sank on its maiden voyage     when it struck an iceberg

Schedule for Parent Conferences

12:00___Jennifer Mooney

12:20__________________________________________________________

12:40__Ashley Bryd

1:00___Andrea Whitehead

1:20___________________________________________________________

1:40___________________________________________________________

2:00___Fiona Franks

2:20___Heather Smothers

2:40____________________________________________________________

3:00___Scott Keeling

3:20___Celeste Colvin

3:40___Jennifer Collins

4:00_Jennifer Maino

4:20__Cindy Simmons

4:40____________________________________________________________

5:00____________________________________________________________

5:20____________________________________________________________

5:40____________________________________________________________

Rides to Gin

Donna Fowler                                              Cindy Simmons

Cole                                                            Anna

Cayson                                                        Haley

Ethan                                                          Jolene

                                                                   Kylie

Kim Webb                                         Angie Russell

Taylor                                                          Fiona

Tanner                                               Molly

                                                          Gracee

The students that did not return a permission form will stay at school. 

We will leave school around 9:45 and return around 10:45.  We will eat lunch at our regular time.