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 the end of November.
**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
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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: 2-8-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.**