A Look at Next Week...

Friday Folders

Your child is coming home with a stuffed Friday folder. Please make sure you look through it carefully for important information! 

Fossil Frank & Diamond Dell

Please look for a orange sheet of paper in your child's Friday Folder with information about two visitors that third grade will be hosting. The money for these in-school field studies is due November 17th. 

Multiplication
I started "Fast Facts" in math. The students will start with their 2's and when the pass their 2's they move to their 3's all the way to their 12's. Please encourage your child to practice memorizing their facts at home. 

Andrew, Kushi and Bennet play BOOM to practice their facts.

Math- We will be working on estimating differences and will review Module 2. The students will have a test on Thursday. 

Language Arts- We will be reading the story "My Very Own Room". They will have a test over this story on Friday. They will also be pretending to be scarecrows and writing persuasive letters to a farmer with an opening for a scarecrow. They are interesting so far! 

Science- We will start discussing changes to habitats. (ex. landslides, floods, droughts, volcanic eruptions etc.)

Social Studies-  We continue discussing Native Americans that lived in SC. (Cherokee, Catawba and Yemassee) 

A Look Ahead...

School Pictures

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Math- We continue to practice addition with regrouping and rounding. We will also practice subtraction with regrouping and finding estimated sums and differences. The students will have a quiz on Thursday over Lessons 15-17. 

Language Arts- The students will have a test on "Wolf!" on Wednesday.  We will focus on revising and editing our writing. 

Science- We will wrap up water features with a test on Friday. (oceans, estuaries, lakes, ponds, rivers, streams)

Social Studies- We will start discussing Chapter 3 on Native Americans. 

Enjoy the long weekend! 

Comunigator and Region Projects

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Region Projects

The students are doing a good job presenting their region projects this week!! 

A Look at Next Week

Pretty & Handsome in Pink

Important Information About School Next Week...

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Student Council

This is the first year third grade will have representatives in the school's student council. We discussed what qualities a person needs to represent our class and then everyone voted. We have a girl and boy representative and a girl and boy alternate. Congrats to Ethan and MollyJane, who will be our class representatives, and Anna and Harrison as our alternates!

Author Visit 

Kevin Kurtz came to LCEU on Tuesday. He spoke to the students about being an author and read his book, A Day in the Salt Marsh. We are learning about water features in science right now so it was perfect timing! 

Sydney and another third grade student pose with Kevin Kurtz. 

School Pictures

Your child's school pictures should be in his/her folder. Please read the directions on the back of the envelope so you know what to do if you choose to purchase or not purchase them. 

BOOSTERTHON DATE CHANGE

Due to the ongoing efforts by the LCE family to meet the immediate and significant needs of the Greater Columbia community, we have decided to reschedule our Boosterthon Fun Run fundraiser that was to take place later this month. Please mark your calendars for Jan. 13 for our kick-off pep rally and Jan. 22 for the Fun Run. We will provide more information closer to those dates.

Math- We will continue practicing rounding to the nearest 10 and 100. We will also work on addition with regrouping.  Math Newsletter 1  Math Newsletter 2

Language Arts- Our reading story for next week is "Wolf". We will focus on sequencing. We will also discuss nouns, verbs, subjects and predicates. The reading test will not be until the following week.  

Science- We will discuss fresh water habitats next week. (ex. lakes, rivers, ponds, streams)

Social Studies-The students will present their Region projects. They are due on Monday. Please remind your child to practice presenting at home. 

Enjoy your weekend!!

A Look Ahead...

Measuring Capacity

We decomposed a Liter of water into 10 parts today so the students understand that there are 1,000 mL in 1 Liter. They did a great job of using the LIFESKILL of Cooperation with their Learning Club to complete the task. Thanks for donating the empty 2 Liters for this lesson! 

MollyJane pours 1 Liter of water into a bottle while Mason holds it steady. -Khushi 

Claire, Mitchell and Anna decomposed 1 Liter of water into 10 separate cups. -Ethan

 Math- We continue to focus on using mL and L to find capacity. We will start rounding numbers to the nearest ten and hundred. The students will have a quiz on mL/L and time on Wednesday. Math Newsletter 1  

Language Arts- Our reading story for next week is "Wolf". We will focus on sequencing. We will also discuss nouns, verbs, subjects and predicates. The students have a spelling test on Tuesday.

Science- We will discuss salt water and fresh water habitats next week. (ex. oceans, lakes, rivers, estuaries, ponds, streams)

Social Studies- We will wrap up our unit on the regions in SC with a test on Thursday. We will start learning about the Native Americans of SC. The students were assigned a SC Region Project this week that is due on Thursday, October 15th. I hope you already know about the project. :)

Stay dry this weekend! I'm so ready for some sunshine!! 

What's on the Agenda for Next Week?

I enjoyed meeting with everyone for Parent Teacher Conferences this week and last. Thank you for taking the time to meet with me and including your child in our conference together. 

I'm in need of five 2 Liter Bottles for math next week. If you have any empty, clean ones at home, please send them my way! Thanks! 

Math- We started time this week. The students will practice telling time and finding elapsed time. We will also start discussing metric units of capacity. (mL and L) The students will have a quiz over time on Thursday.  Math Newsletter1  Math Newsletter 2

Language Arts- We will work on writing a personal narrative next week. The students received their spelling words on Wednesday. Their test will be on Tuesday, October 6th. They can practice at Spelling City. 

Science- We will focus on plant and animal adaptations in the Temperate Forest and Arctic Tundra this week. The students will complete a mini research activity in class on an animal from one of the habitats we have studied in class.

Social Studies- We will continue to discuss the 6 Regions in SC. The students will have a quiz over the Blue Ridge, Piedmont and Sandhills regions on Wednesday.

Relaxing and reading in the Media Center...

Half Day Transportation

Please make sure your child writes in his/her agenda how he/she is getting home tomorrow since we dismiss at 11:30 am! Thanks!