Upcoming Service Projects:  We have three opportunities to help others this holiday season.
**Can Drive-Bring in cans that will be donated to the local food bank (October 25-November 9th).
**We are creating a class basket to that POQA will sell as a fundraiser in December.  Our class basket’s theme will be “Kid Movie Night”.  Ideas: kid movies, candy, popcorn, sodas, juice, blankets, etc.
This basket should be catered towards the children.  Please donate items to put into our class basket by .  
**Third Grade Service Learning Project: We have the opportunity to help some Refuges with school supplies. We need are collecting: 1-1 1/2 inch binders, spiral notebooks, composition notebooks, fine tip Expo markers, pencils, lined paper, highlighters, personal pencil sharpeners, gently used books, glue sticks, and 1 centimeter graph paper.
 
Homework:

Reading
Of course, reading is the most important part of our homework! All of us should be reading 20 minutes a night, 5 nights a week. Please print off the Sort and Reading Log to record how many minutes your child read each night. Please sign and return it on Friday.

Math
Print off these math pages for estimation review:
Monday-Happy Halloween!!! 🙂
Tuesday-estimation-3
Wednesday-estimation-4
Thursday-estimation-word-problems1

Spelling
This week the students will be working on long e, a, and o sounds with the /ai/, /ea/ and /ow/ /oa/ patterns again. The words are just a little bit longer, with the suffix /-ed/ added to the end, or compound words with that pattern.
Please print off this sort: 2-7-sheet1
The students will use this sort to practice the indicated patterns. Quest has asked us to have the students type their spelling word sort each night, but I would like to keep homework quick and simple.  Just have your children sort the words.  They do not need to type or write the sort.

Monday-Sort words by indicated patterns ( /ee/, /ea/, and /oddballs/-all other patterns)
Tuesday-ABC Sort (Sort the words by initial letters.)
Wednesday- Speed Sort (Sort the words as quickly as they can.)
Thursday-Glue sort (Glue the words down in the indicated vowel pattern.)
**Please make a note on the Sort and Reading Log that a sort was done each night.**