Miss Miura's Meerkats
Room 26 Class Website
Week of March 2nd!
Announcements
- Spring Conference sign ups are going home on Tuesday! Please turn back in by Friday.
- Our History of Livermore Walking Field Trip will be on Tuesday, March 24th. We will leave LVCS at 8:45am, tour starts at 9, and we will have lunch together in a nice grassy area and come back to school by 1pm. It is FREE for everyone and it is probably one of the most interesting field trips! Permission slips will go home soon.
- Timed Multiplication Tests have started! In order to show automaticity, the students will need to complete 100 problems in 3 minutes. They will take tests on Mondays and Fridays. If they pass on Monday, they will move onto the next test on Friday. We will be doing the tables in the following order: 0 & 1, 2, 5, 10, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9.
- Please start collecting your box tops!
- Please always feel free to contact me at lmiura@gmail.com
THANK YOUS
A big thank you to Liz (Wilkins) and Zone 7 for coming in a sharing some very interesting information about the history of water in Livermore!
Wishlist (updated 10/5)
2 File Crates (any color) New or Gently Used Chapter Books Donations to Class PTO AccountEnglish/Language Arts
- We will be starting to read a biography! Details to follow.
- Grammar: Doubling the consonant (swim - swimming, stop - stopped), antonyms and synonyms
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Quiz on Friday
Spelling
- Monday: Pyramid Spelling
- Tuesday: Picture Vocabulary
- Wednesday: Spelling Comic Strip
- Thursday: Study for spelling test
- Friday: Spelling test
- Please check their planner for their words or the spelling words section on the website
Writer's Workshop
- We will continue learning the 5 steps in the writing process - prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. We will be doing some letter writing as well as working on new paragraphs.
- We also have "secret pals" in other 3rd grade classes that we are writing letters to to practice letter writing.
Math
- We have started a new math chapter, Fractions and Decimals!
- This chapter focuses on :
- Parts of a fraction
- Parts of a whole
- Comparing fractions
- Ordering fractions
- Equivalent fractions
- Parts of a group
- Mixed numbers
- Add and subtract fractions
- Tenths
- Hundredths
- Decimals greater than 1
- Compare and order fractions and decimals
- Add and subtract decimals
Social Studies
- We will continue learning about Livermore history! Their projects look amazing!
Science