A Look Ahead

Enjoying the cooler weather at lunch today!

Curriculum
Math- We will wrap up Module 1 next week with a test on Friday. There will be a study buddy coming home early in the week. 

Language Arts- We will continue analyzing nonfiction text. The students will continue to exam text features.  The students will work on formulating questions to aid in comprehension. We will continue writing about a small moment with a special person or place. 

Science- We will discuss the Temperate and Tropical Forest Habitats. (food chains, types of animals, characteristics of the habitats etc.)

Social Studies- The students will have a test on SC Regions on Wednesday. The study buddy for this was distributed on Thursday. We will move to Chapter 2 on Native Americans of South Carolina.

Ci Ci's Limo, Lunch and Learn

Eva and Delaney headed to Ci Ci's today for raising at least $300 in the Read Books 2 Raise Bucks fundraiser. Looks like they had fun!! 

Science Review Links

These two links are good to use as a review for the science test on Friday. They know how to use Quizlet, but I haven't showed them Study Stack yet. 

Foodchain Quizlet

Study Stack

A Look Ahead

Kami, Lauryn and Caiden pose in front of the Book Fair


Field Study Fees
Ten dollars has been added to your Parent Portal Account to cover the speakers we will have this year as well as a field trip to the State Museum. The normal cost is $20, but PTO is covering half of all the 3rd graders' fees with funds from the fundraiser!! The 3rd grade team will send home a letter soon explaining what the $10 covers. You can pay it in Parent Portal. 

Curriculum

Math- We continue working in Module 1 on Multiplication and Division. The students will have a quiz over lessons 11-13 on Tuesday. 

Language Arts- We continue working with nonfiction and examining the different text features of this genre.  We will also focus on making connections to texts and synonyms. The students will take a District Writing Assessment on Monday. For this assessment students will read a passage and answer a prompt that goes with the passage. It will involve them having to analyze the text. 

Science- We will wrap up the Grasslands with a test on Friday. Please look for a study buddy to come home next week that lists what the students need to know for this test. They can use their composition notebooks, science book and any papers behind science in their binder.

Social Studies- We continue talking about the regions in South Carolina. The students will work on a Regions Performance Task in class that will be graded. 

Attention Military Gator Families

Attention Military Gator Families!

Sign your child up for our Military Kids Group!

LCEU’s military kids support groups are designed to address the specific needs of students with an active duty parent.  We focus on topics such as deployments, frequent family moves, transitioning into new schools, making friends, etc. These support groups meet once a month, during the school day and are led by the school counselor, Mrs. Skinner. If you would like your child to participate and are not yet signed up, please use the link below to sign up. If you have trouble with the link you may email Mrs. Skinner directly at Jskinner@richland2.org.

*If your child was previously enrolled in the military kids groups, he will be included this year as well.

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 Upper Campus Military Kids Group 2017-18

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**Thank you all for what you do. We are glad to have the opportunity to serve your children as you serve our country!**

A Look Ahead

Book Fair
The book fair is next week. We previewed it today as a class this afternoon. We will go to the book fair as a class on Thursday so students can purchase books.

Disability Training

Each year 3rd graders participate in disability awareness training. The training involves each student rotations through stations that stimulate various disabilities. Take a look below...

Curriculum

Math- We continue working in Module 1 on Multiplication and Division. We have focused on the facts 2,3 and 5 in this module using division and multiplication. If you have multiplication flashcards at home it would be a good idea for them to start "testing" themselves to see how fast they know the answers. 

Language Arts- We will focus on nonfiction texts, text features, and suffixes. We will read Earth Smart from our reading book as well as other nonfiction material. 

Science-We continue learning about different habitats. (animal adaptations, food chains, characteristics of each habitat) We will also discuss process skills (classify, predict, infer, observe).

Social Studies- We will continue to discuss the regions in South Carolina and the different physical and human features of each. 

Stone Soup

Below are links that your student can use to help with the Stone Soup test on Friday.

Listen to Stone Soup

Stone Soup Vocabulary Practice

A Look At Next Week

Think Tank

Students started working on my Think Tank "task" this week. I post a question each week for them to answer. They post their answer on the back of the fish you see in the picture below. This week the question was: 

To make the flag of the United States of America, you need 3 different colors of fabric. How many colors of fabric do you need to make 14 flags? 

They had until today to complete the task, and I will go over the answer on Monday. Make sure you ask your child if they did it and what their answer was. This one is always an interesting "task". 

Pajamas and Read-In

The students enjoyed wearing pajamas today! I did too! 

Mission Statement
We wrote our class mission statement this week! 

Curriculum 
Note: This is all tentative depending on Hurricane Irma. 

Math- We continue working in Module 1 on Multiplication and Division. The students will take Math Map on Tuesday. 

Language Arts- The students will have a reading test over "Stone Soup" on Wednesday. We continue reviewing prefixes and suffixes. We will also discuss character traits. 

Science-We continue learning about different habitats. (animal adaptations, food chains, characteristics of each habitat) We will also discuss process skills (classify, predict, infer, observe).

Social Studies- We will discuss the regions in South Carolina and the different physical and human features of each. 

Update

We have raised almost $600 as a class for Read Books 2 Raise Bucks! 

Tomorrow the students get to chew gum and take their shoes off in class. I suggested they bring socks if they normally wear sandals. They will enjoy this prize after MAP testing in the morning! Friday we will celebrate with pj's and some time for a Read In. 

Read Books 2 Raise Bucks

We are doing great with the fundraiser! We have raised $476 as a class! Everyone looked great in their hats today! Friday is the last day for the fundraiser! 

A Look At Next Week

Our class looked great with their crazy socks, wacky hair and team colors today!!

Team Colors and Wacky Hair 

Crazy Socks

Go Buckeyes!!! 

The students enjoyed the assembly today with Langston Moore and Preston Thorne, authors of #JustaChicken. 

Read Books 2 Raise Bucks

We have raised almost $300 as a class!! The students are allowed to wear hats to school on Tuesday since the school met their goal of $15,000 by Thursday night. The students will also be allowed to wear pajamas to school on Friday, Sept. 8th and we will have a read in. If you would like to come read a book to the class on Friday, please let me know and we can schedule a time. ALERT is on Friday, but they will have a read in with Mrs. Evering. 

Keep reading to raise $! 

Curriculum
Math- We will continue working in Module 1 on Properties of Multiplication and Division. The students will have a quiz over lessons 4-6 on Thursday. 

Language Arts- We will continue discussing text features. We will also discuss suffixes and prefixes and continue working on our mentor sentence from Do Unto Otters. The students will also read the story "Stone Soup" from their reading book.  

Science-We will start our unit on habitats and will focus on the Grasslands. We will continue to discuss science process skills. 

Social Studies- We will talk about the state symbols of SC and beginning looking at the different regions of our state. The students will have a geography quiz on Wednesday. They can use their composition notebooks and papers in their binder to help them prepare.