MRS. STOKES' THIRD GRADE NEWSLETTER
November 30, 2009
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ANGEL GIFTS
Third grade classes will be helping a family this Christmas season. If you
would like to send in a donation, please send a gift card from a deparment
store, clothing store, or toy store. (no grocery stores please) Donations
will be picked up the week of Dec. 7th. Thanks.
MATH
Now that we know the multiplication facts, we will be moving on to division.
Since division is the opposite of multiplication, students just need to
understand the relationship between multiplication and division to know how
to divide. We will continue to work on speed and accuracy with
multiplication as we learn the division facts. Timed tests for Multiplication
Facts will continue throughout December.
Please have your child continue to practice multiplication facts. They can
spend time on multiplication.com (15-20 min each night) or they can
write the facts and practice with flash cards.
READING/LANGUAGE ARTS
This week we will be reading "Lemons and Lemonade, A Book about Supply and
Demand"
Vocabulary Words:
1. stack
2. competition
3. expenses
4. demand
5. profit
6. supply
7. product
8. balance
Test Friday
SPELLING
Spelling Words for "Lemons and Lemonade..."
Spelling words for this week are:
1. fall
2. caught
3. faster
4. August
5. talk
6. small
7. fought
8. yawn
9. bought
10. thinnest
11. hawk
12. taught
13. chalk
14. tall
15. auto
Challenge words
16. squawk
17. happier
Test Friday
SCIENCE
We will begin our study of "Rocks and Minerals"
Online Books - Parents, I have taped the passwords
for the students' math, social studies and reading books
in the front of each student's assignment book. Now
if your child forgets a textbook at school, you can
access it at home online at any time. There are also
games and activities that go with some of the chapters
and stories. Go to my links page to get to the websites
for these textbooks.
* Parents, you can check your child's AR progress online
at home. Just go to the school website, then click on
media center, then Renaissance, then Home Connection,
then put in your child's username and password, and you
will see their AR information. You can also check their
progress on Accelerated Math.
ACCELERATED READER
If you would like to look up an Accelerated Reader Book on the computer,
here are the directions:
After you logon to the RES website, click under Media Center, then on the
left of this page, click on "AR Book Finder." On Advance Search, you can
sort by author, book title, or book level.
http://teacherweb.com/GA/RiversideElementary/LenoirStokes
You can also access my website from the county website. Click on "Our
Schools", then "Riverside", then "link to the school website",
then "classes", then "third grade", and then the star by my name
