Next Week

Congratulations to Donovan and Logan!
Our class nominated students to represent our class in student council and then we voted on the students who were nominated. Our girl and boy representatives will be Donovan and Logan!! I know they will do a great job representing our class!! 

Report Cards

Your child has his/her report card in their Friday folder. Please keep the report card, sign the envelope and return. If your child made the A or A/B Honor Roll they will go on the morning show on Thursday, November 3rd. 

Halloween
Please do not let your child wear his/her costume to school on Monday. We talked about this as a class already. We also discussed how I would prefer they not bring in candy on Tuesday. If they have a couple pieces in their lunch box that is fine. 

Reminder: Pictures
Please send in the pictures you do not wish to purchase with your child or payment for the ones you want to keep. Thanks! 

Parent University
Please click on Parent University to learn about an opportunity on November 29th at LCEU where you can learn how to help your child at home with reading, writing, math and homework. 

Math- We will wrap up Module 2 with a test on Thursday. Please encourage your child to continue to practice their multiplication facts.

Language Arts- We will wrap up our animal stories and will work on putting the final touches on them to make them fabulous! Each student will share their story with a student from Miss Rosenberg's class in the next couple of weeks. We continue to work on our mentor sentence from Grace for President with the focus on adverbs. We will also start focusing on how to locate text features and how to gain meaning from them. 

Science- We will wrap up our discussions on Rain Forests with a test on Wednesday. We will start discussing water habitats. (oceans, swamps, estuaries, rivers, ponds, lakes etc.)

Social Studies- We will continue learning about the European Explorers who explored South Carolina. The students will create a paper slide show on one of the explorers we studied. 

Butterfly Camouflage

The students colored a butterfly to make it blend in to our classroom environment. Below are some of the most creative ideas. Logan, Shane and Zhane explain why they chose the spot to place their butterfly. Can you find each butterfly? 

Shane Bagwell

I camouflaged my butterfly to make it very colorful because the crayon picture is. I chose that place because I thought it was really unique and no one would see it.

Zhane Walker

My butterfly is on the calendar. I put it there because I thought it was a creative place. Also because nobody thought of that spot.

Logan Buckley

I chose this spot for my butterfly because I thought the lines on the butterfly would look really blended in with the poster. 

Next Week

Wearing our pink to support Breast Cancer!!!

Math- We continue working in Module 2, Place Value and Problem Solving with Units of Measure. We will continue focusing on rounding to the nearest ten and hundred and adding and subtracting two and three digit numbers. The students will have a quiz over Lessons 12-14 on Tuesday. We will continue to review multiplication facts during our fluency portion of math each day. Please encourage your child to practice their facts at home through flash cards or games.  

Language Arts- The students will continue working on their stories about the animal I "turned" them into. We will also focus on making predictions when reading a story or book. We will start a new mentor sentence from the book Grace for President with the focus being on adverbs. 

Science-We continue learning about the Rain Forest. 

Social Studies- We will start discussing exploration in South Carolina. We will focus on different explorers such as Hernando deSoto, Jean Ribault, and Juan Pardo and their reasons for exploration. 

A Look Ahead

Amazing Me Project

The students did a great job sharing what makes them amazing to other LCEU Gators, parents and grandparents. Below are some of the amazing projects from our class...

More Boosterthon Fun Run Pictures

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Math- We continue working in Module 2, Place Value and Problem Solving with Units of Measure. We will focus on rounding to the nearest ten and hundred and adding two and three digit numbers. The students will have a quiz over Lessons 9-11 on Tuesday. We will continue to review multiplication facts during our fluency portion of math each day. Please encourage your child to practice their facts at home through flash cards or games. 

Language Arts-We will be working on the writing process with a narrative writing. I turned each student into an animal of their choice and they started writing the "main event" that happens in their story as their animal. Some students are doing a great job of tying in what they have learned in science with habitats and even social studies with Native Americans.  Next week, we will focus on what a great beginning will look like and revising our main event. We will finish up our mentor sentence from When Lightning Comes in a Jar, which focuses on verbs. 

Science- We will start discussing the characteristics of the rain forest. We will also discuss plants and animals that can be found there, how they adapt to their habitat, and different food chains in the rain forest. 

Social Studies- We will finish talking about the three Native American tribes that live in SC with a test on Thursday.  

Boosterthon Fun Run

We had a great time at the Fun Run this morning! I think your child will sleep good tonight! I know I will! :)

Xavier held the flag with his father at his side for the National Anthem.  

Getting excited to start the Fun Run! 

Ratacizak's Rockin' Racers

Decomposing Liters

We started talking about capacity with milliliters and liters today during math. The students decomposed a liter. This hands on activity should really help them understand how big a liter is versus a milliliter and how many milliliters are in a liter. 

Amare and Logan work together to measure out 100 mL for each cup. 

Monika and Nate focus on pouring only 100 mL in their cup. 

Taylor and Marett pour the 100 mL of each cup back into the liter bottle to see how many times it takes to fill it to 1 L. 

Boosterthon

We kicked off Boosterthon with a pep rally this afternoon! Please look in your child's binder for more information. Third grade will run at 8:30 am Wednesday, October 12th in the bus loop!