September 15

 Upcoming Dates/Reminders:

• I will give the MAP math test on Tuesday.  Make sure your child has had a good breakfast and is ready to go.  This is our last MAP test for awhile.  
• Thank you for all of the Clorox wipes and tissues that came this week!

Homework Folder:

• We have created story mountains with our personal narrative.  I have sent your child's story mountain home.  Please have your child tell the story to you verbally a couple times this weekend so he/she can recall details and feelings to add to his/her writing.  
• Reading minutes are due on Monday.  Students should have read 125 minutes and have a signature from you.
• New word work will begin on Monday.  You will notice that there are three sight words listed at the bottom.  Three sight words will be given each week and will be on the final test on Friday.  
• Math homework went home today and will be due next week Friday.
• Psalm 8 is our Bible memory.  If your child can say this with one or two helps return the form or send me an email and I will mark your child down.  We review these verses each day in class and talk about what the verses mean to us.

Curriculum Highlights:

Ready for the Walk-a-thon

All of the 3rd graders at Pine Ridge

All About Me: This week we celebrated our friends Cameron, Alyssa, Davina, Ezra, and Michael.  We loved learning more about our friends and their interests.

Literacy:  In Reading we have been busy learning how to "stop and jot" our thoughts as we read.  We are increasing our reading stamina.  In Writing we have been working on the heart of our personal narratives and placing our thoughts and ideas on a story mountain.  We have also been busy practicing our grammar and word work each day at school.  

Telling our stories with as much detail as we can remember!

Math:  We have now learned how to multiply and divide by 2's, 5's, 9's and 10's.  This is a lot of information for the students to learn so we practice our facts each day on our ipads.  We work daily at story problems and we are getting good at figuring out if we need to divide or multiply.

Bible:  We began looking at how the Bible is organized.  We had some fun singing some songs about the books of the Bible and looking at the table of contents.  We also began to search for some favorite bible verses and learned about chapters and verses.  

Science:  We looked about how earth materials interact with water.  We also learned about renewable resources and our role in caring for these.  We also looked at the importance of farmland and how little of it we actually have.  It makes the students see how we are called to be God's creation keepers and we had excellent conversation about this.

Blessings,

Lynae