News to Know
- McCall is this week's snack helper. Courtney will be next week's helper.
- If you haven't ordered your books for the next unit, please do so this week.
- For math homework, please remind your child to follow directions. I know that there are several ways to work these problems, but the math test will require them to know several different ways, and I want them to get practice using all of the methods.
- Our culmination performance for the Roman unit will be on Friday, October 7. Please make plans to come as the third graders are doing something awesome!
- For our performance, we need a king's crown and dog ears. If you have either of these items and are willing to let us use them, please send them this week.
Language Arts
We will finish reading Atticus of Rome and take a test on Friday. We will put together the final drafts of our persuasive writing projects and share them with the class on Friday. We will be discussing common and proper nouns, capitalization, possessive nouns, and combining sentences.
Math
We will continue working on subtraction this week, both two-digit and three-digit. We will also work on subtracting across zeros. On Friday, we will take a cumulative test on Topics 1-4. This test will not be for a grade, but will be a way to show how much the students are retaining and where they made need some extra help. Please let me know if you have any questions about this test.
Conceptual
We will wrap up the Roman Empire unit this week.
Science
We will continue learning about Earth's Resources and working on our culmination project.
