Friday News

Happy Friday! Here’s a look at what we did this week!

Math: We finished up Unit 3 and spent the week reviewing. When students return from Thanksgiving break we will start multiplication!

English: We have moved on from nouns and we are now focusing on verbs! Students played verb charades this week and started learning about the different tenses of action verbs.

Science: After finishing our astronomy unit, we have started our chemistry unit in science! Students have started learning about the periodic table of elements, molecules, and compounds. We will have a mid-unit test on Monday.

Social Studies: In social studies, we have been moving through our communities textbooks learning about different immigrants coming to the United States. This week we focused on sharing culture through different stories and talked about some of our upcoming holiday traditions!

Religion: Religion this week was focused on the gift of the Holy Spirit. We discussed the work of the Holy Spirit in the world and how the Holy Spirit guides the Church. Students made posters with the different names of the Holy Spirit and the Fruits of the Holy Spirit.

Reading: Our story in our reader this week was Moses Goes to a Concert. The reading strategy that we focused on was main idea. We also finished up our first read-aloud of the year, Matilda! A permission slip will be going home in Friday folders today to watch the movie next week. Students will have a chance to compare/contrast the movie with the book. We will continue on our author study of Roald Dahl this year with our next read aloud, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Reminders:

• Report cards will be sent home on Monday
• Dismissal Tuesday will be at 10:30am
• Parent/Teacher Conferences will be held on Tuesday 11/22
• Eve of the Eve will be on Tuesday night
• Thanksgiving Mass will be Tuesday at 8:30am with honor roll for the older students at 8:20

Let me know if you have any questions/comments/concerns. Have a great weekend

- Miss Rizzo

Friday News

Happy Friday! Here's a look at what we did this week in 3rd Grade:

Math - Students are working through their addition/subtraction unit and are now on to subtraction. They have learned multiple strategies to do both, but we are focusing our efforts on making sure they have the standard algorithm down.

Reading - This week, we read the story "Spiders at Work". Our reading strategy was important/non-important information. We focused on finding the main idea of a text and then figuring out which information is important and which is not. We are also continuing to work on comprehension and restating questions. Students are getting very good at restating questions!

English - In English, we have been focusing on nouns. Students have learned about common nouns, proper nouns, plural nouns, irregular plural nouns, and soon possessive nouns. Next week we will review and have a noun test at the end of the week.

Science - In science, we wrapped up our Astronomy unit. Next week we will visit the Planetarium and start our next unit.

Religion - We finished chapters 1-4 in our religion book. This wraps up our religion unit 1. We have spent the week reviewing, and next week Monday we will have our unit 1 test.

*Halloween* - Students may dress down in Halloween costumes on Monday. Costumes must be age appropriate, no masks, non-violent in nature and please leave accessories at home. Students may also bring treats to pass out to their peers, but they must be wrapped, peanut free, and they must have enough for all 24 students in the class. If you need suggestions on what to bring, let me know and I will gladly send you some! We will also be having a Halloween parade around the block at 9:00am, weather permitting, to showcase our Halloween costumes.  Parents/Grandparents/Friends are welcome to come watch our parade! (In the event of inclement weather, we will be parading throughout the school and end in the gym).

NEXT WEEK IS SPIRIT WEEK!
Monday - Halloween Costumes
Tuesday - Team Spirit Tuesday: Wear BCA Spirit Wear or the school colors!
Wednesday - Wacky Hair Wednesday: Come to school with Wacky Hair and dress down!
Thursday - Dress up as your favorite Superhero
Friday - Hawaiian *3rd grade will dress in GYM uniforms for field trip

Notes/Reminders:
- Gym days next week will be on Thursday and Friday November 3rd and 4th
- We have a field trip to the Planetarium on Friday, November 4th - students must bring a SACK lunch and wear GYM uniforms
- We are still looking for Trivia Night donations!!!

Let me know if you have any questions/comments/concerns!

Have a great weekend!
- Miss Rizzo

Friday News

Math: In math this week, students started Unit 3: Using Place Value to Add and Subtract. We add and subtract large numbers every day when keeping track of our reading minutes as a whole, so students are already doing a great job with this!

Reading: In reading this week, our story was "The Sun, the Wind, and the Rain". The reading strategy that we focused on was comparing and contrasting. We are also continuing to work on our reading comprehension!

Social Studies: In social studies we are continuing to move through the beginning of America. Students learned about the creation of the transcontinental railroad and many of the inventions that came about in the 1800s that made life easier for people. They also had a chance to come up with their own invention that might make life easier for people nowadays.

Science: In science, students learned about the different planets and how long they take to orbit the Sun. We went to the gym and did a hands-on activity where students modeled the orbit of all 8 planets around the Sun. We then compared and contrasted how long it took the different planets to make their orbit.

Religion: In religion this week we discussed how Mary trusted God. We talked about the Annunciation, the Incarnation, and the Visitation.

Notes/Reminders:
- Our dress down day for winning Box Tops is Tuesday, October 18th
- Tuition is due October 18th
- Our field trip to Legoland is Thursday, October 20th - students do NOT need to bring a lunch
- We are collecting items for our SPA Trivia Basket! Please help the class out by contributing a Spa themed item or certificate!
- Candy collection for the HSA Halloween party is still going on

Have a great weekend! Let me know if you have any comments/questions/concerns!

Friday News!

Happy Friday! Here's a look at what we did this week!

Math: In math we worked on estimating sums and estimating differences. We also learned compatible numbers and how to use them to make numbers easier to add in our heads. We will have a quiz on this next week!

Science: In science this week we moved on from learning about the Sun and the Moon and started learning about the 8 planets. Students learned the order of the planets, how long they take to orbit the Sun, and how many moons each planet has.

Social Studies: In social studies we started learning about America's first communities. Students learned about the settlers, Pocahontas, and the Powhatan.

Writing: Students are still in the prewriting stages of their personal narratives. This week we went over how to pair share and established a beginning, middle, and end to our stories.

Reading: We spent most of the week reviewing for our reading tests that we took yesterday. Today, we focused on our current read aloud, Matilda. We identified all the characters we have been introduced to so far and listed character traits for each.

Religion: In religion we discussed caring for God's creation and reviewed for our quiz that will be on Monday.

News and Reminders:
- Field trip permission slips and money are due October 7th
- Book orders were sent home on Wednesday with a special coupon - Orders are due October 7th
- Conference forms were sent home in Friday folders and are due October 28th
*Information about Trivia Night baskets will be sent home soon, so stay tuned!

Let me know if you have any questions/comments/concerns! Have a great weekend!

Thursday News!

Happy Thursday! Here's a look at what we did this week:

Math: We started Unit 2: Number Sense with Addition and Subtraction. Students learned three different properties of addition: the commutative property, the associative property, and the identity property. Students struggled with this a little bit at the beginning, but most of them got the hang of it after some practice!

Science: In science we are half way through our Astronomy unit. We will have a test on Tuesday of next week. Students have completed study guides with all the information that they need to review for the test.

Reading: This week our story was a Time For Kids story called "Champions of the World". We talked about reading nonfiction texts and looking at text features to give us more information.  This was our last story in our first reading unit. A study guide will be given out on Monday and we will have a reading test on Thursday of next week.

Writing: All students have chosen their personal narrative topic and started the prewriting process. We talked about the importance of focusing on a small and important event. Students learned how to make a brainstorming web and are excited to begin writing.

Religion: This week in religion we have been talking about what God tells us about creation and how God created us in His image and likeness. Today we read one of my favorite books called, "You are Special" by Max Lucado and talked about how we are all special.

Reminders/Notes:

- Field trip forms for Legoland are due by October 7th

- Pokemon cards are NO LONGER allowed at school

- NO SCHOOL tomorrow

- Box tops are being collected and counted at the end of the month, help our class win a dress down day by sending them in!

- Tech T-shirt day next Friday

I hope everyone has a great weekend! Let me know if you have any questions/comments/concerns!

- Miss Rizzo

Friday News!

Happy Weekend! Here's a look at what we did this week!

Math: In math, we continued to work on our rounding and finished up Unit 1. Students learned how to round 3 and 4 digit numbers and did a great job using all the steps and rules of rounding. We spent the end of the week reviewing the chapter and preparing for our test on Thursday! (I originally said it would be Wednesday, but we are pushing it to Thursday due to fishing)

English: For the beginning of the year, we have been focusing our English time on grammar and sentence structure so we can make sure that we can write well when we start our Writer's Workshop next week! Students have learned sentences, sentence fragments, subjects, predicates, and more. Next Monday we will start with our first Writer's Workshop unit: Personal Narrative.

Reading: Our story in reading this week was "Opt: An Illusionary Tale". In reading, we have been focusing on comprehension. A lot of students have a hard time with this so we have been practicing restating questions when answering and making sure we are comprehending the text when reading.

Science: The beginning to our astronomy unit has been a lot of fun! Students have learned all about the rotation and orbit of the Earth and thanks to a parent suggestion, we even watched a movie about what would happen when the Earth stops spinning. Next week we take our focus from the Earth to the moon.

Social Studies: In social studies we have learned all about urban, suburban, and rural communities. We have also learned about our country's geography and how the different weather and geography affects different places. Most recently we have been focusing on the environment and the Earth's natural resources - renewable and nonrenewable. This has lined up perfectly with our fishing trip next week!

Religion: In the first chapter of religion, we learned about how God speaks to us. We read about St. Francis of Assisi and the Holy Trinity. We will review the chapter and have a quiz at the beginning of next week.

Reminders:

- Punky's Night Tuesday - dress down day Wednesday

- Fishing on Wednesday next week (I will send out an email to chaperones at the beginning of next week)

- Fitness week is next week! Field day will be on Friday

Let me know if you have any questions/comments/concerns!

Have a fabulous weekend!

- Miss Rizzo

- Miss Rizzo

Homework 9/8/16

Homework:

Math: Math Study Guide, test on Wednesday
Spelling: Spelling contract due tomorrow, test tomorrow
Reading: Reading log

*Math study guide is just pgs. 24-25 copied from the book. I had students bring home their books as well in case they need to reference any past lessons for help. The study guide is in a very similar format as the test. We will go over all correct answers tomorrow!