Welcome back to the beginning of a great year together! I can’t wait to meet all of my students and their families and to start working together. Check out the other links on this page to learn more about me and about our schedule this year. Don’t forget to sign up for the Remind App using the handout from Open House. I am new to it this year but am planning to use it as a way to keep in touch with parents and to send out updates about upcoming events and reminders. I’m so excited to begin working together with you this year!
Week of March 21-25
Important Dates:
March 21 and 22 READING SIMULATION
March 22 Famous Americans Test
March 25 Electronics and Game Day (2:30-3:45)
April 7 and 8 MATH SIMULATION
March 14-18
Upcoming Dates
3/15 Diversity Quiz
3/15 Fractions Test
3/16 Spring Pictures
3/21 Reading Simulation Test
3/22 Reading Simulation Test
February 29-March 4
Important Dates
February 29 Field Trip to the Math and Science Innovation Center (9:30-1:00)
March 1 No school for students/Teacher workday
March 2 Character Parade for Read Across America Day (9:45)
February 22-26
Upcoming Dates:
February 23 Explorers Test
February 26 Spelling Test
Week of February 15-19
This week we will work on identifying the main idea and details of nonfiction texts. Students will be practicing that skill in both guided reading groups and during shared reading. In writing we will be learning about singular possessives and also writing a topic sentence that focuses on the main idea of the story. In math we will work on naming and describing solid (3-d) shapes; learning about points, lines, line segments, angles and rays; and also learning about congruent and non-congruent shapes. In social studies we will learn about four European explorers and the impact that they had on the American Indians–Christopher Columbus, Christopher Newport, Juan Ponce de Leon, and Jacques Cartier. Finally, students will all have the same sort for spelling. They will be focusing on adding -er and -est in comparatives. Have a wonderful week!
February 8-12
This week students are taking their math benchmark test on Monday at 1:30. I will send the students’ scores home for reading and math in their Thursday folders.
In writing we will be working on a project where they are using prefixes and suffixes to change the meaning of words. In shared reading, we will focus on comparing and contrasting characters and settings in one story and between two stories. In math we will be finishing up division. Students will take their division test on Thursday. In science we will be finishing up our water cycle unit.
February 2-5
Upcoming Dates:
February 2 Reading Benchmark
February 8 Math Benchmark
January 28 and 29
I hope everyone enjoyed the snow days and spent time with family and friends! Now that we are back to our routine (and I am finalizing grades for report cards), we have a busy two days ahead of us.
Thursday and Friday I will be finishing the last few students’ DRA and PALs tests. Small group guided reading will resume next Tuesday, with many students starting in new groups. In writing students will be finishing their writing prompts. In math, we will review telling time, elapsed time, and equivalent periods of time and take our test. We will begin division on Friday. Finally, we will wrap up our study of matter in science Thursday and Friday. We will review Thursday and students will take their test on Friday.
Week of January 19-22
This week I will continue DRA and PALS testing during guided reading. In shared reading we will be working on Author’s Purpose. Ask your child about how author’s purpose is easy as P.I.E. In writing students are finishing their short reports on simple machines. In math we are wrapping up time. Students are practicing telling time to the nearest minute, working with equivalent times, and finding how much time has elapsed. Finally, we will continue learning about matter in science. Students will be doing many different experiments to investigate the different states of matter and the physical properties of objects.
Mrs. Kim's Third Grade Class 