Week of February 9, 2015

Announcements:
  • The field trip is on Tuesday!
  • Our Valentine’s Day party is on Friday
***************************3rd Grade Homework Organizer**************************

Directions: Always keep this in your homework folder. Each day place a check in the box when you finish your homework. Have a parent initial the column and bring back this sheet every day in your homework folder. Students are required to read 20 minutes a day. Please record reading time on the attached document or on the Google document. It needs to be up to date every Friday. Reading Log 

Red Group- Green Sort 5

Green Group- Yellow Sort 49

Yellow Group-Yellow Sort 23

Orange Group- Yellow Sort 17


Monday

ABC sort
Have your child explain the sort rule to you and put their words in alphabetical order.
Tuesday
Speed Sort
Time your child doing the sort three times. 
Wednesday
No Peeking Sort
Read the sort words to your child aloud (without showing them) and have them write them under the correct rule column with the correct spelling. Thursday
Glue Sort
Glue down the rules and the sorts that follow those rules

Valentine’s Party

We are going to have an amazing Valentine’s Day party on February 13th!!!! We will be playing minute to win it games and passing out Valentines. We need some supplies before the big day so if you can bring something that would be wonderful!

We need:
-23 boxes of conversation hearts
-2 or 3 packages of candy corn (red, white, and pink ones)
-chocolate kisses
-Valentines plain M&Ms
-Twizzlers
-23 heart shaped sugar cookies (they have to be store bought)
-Pink or white frosting
Sprinkles

P.S. Let me know if you would like to come in and help! The party will be from 1:45ish- 3:00.

Week of February 2, 2015

Announcements:
  • Field trip permission slips need to be handed in this week.
  • The Sage writing test is this week. Please make sure students get plenty of rest and a good breakfast on the morning of the test.
***************************3rd Grade Homework Organizer**************************

Directions: Always keep this in your homework folder. Each day place a check in the box when you finish your homework. Have a parent initial the column and bring back this sheet every day in your homework folder. Students are required to read 20 minutes a day. Please record reading time on the attached document or on the Google document. It needs to be up to date every Friday. Reading Log 

Red Group- Green Sort 4

Green Group- Yellow Sort 48

Yellow Group-Yellow Sort 22

Orange Group- Yellow Sort 16


Monday

ABC sort
Have your child explain the sort rule to you and put their words in alphabetical order.
Tuesday
Speed Sort
Time your child doing the sort three times. 
Wednesday
No Peeking Sort
Read the sort words to your child aloud (without showing them) and have them write them under the correct rule column with the correct spelling. Thursday
Glue Sort
Glue down the rules and the sorts that follow those rules

Valentine’s Day

It’s that time again, the time where I ask for volunteers for a class party! 🙂 So far we are going to pass out Valentine’s and put on a couple of Just Dance videos on from YouTube. Anything else is extra. If you would like to come and do an activity or craft let me know. We can also have food on that as long as I know before hand.

Students who want to bring Valentines need to bring one for everyone in our class. We have 23 students (no one likes to be left out!). If they want to give a select number to other students in other classes that is fine with me.

Thanks,
Ms. Young

**Sage Writing Next Week**

This year, we have to administer the SAGE Writing Assessment earlier in February.  (The SAGE Language Arts and Math Assessments will be given in May.) We have been working really hard at school on writing informative and opinion pieces to prepare.  This is all pretty new to our class because we’ve never taken the end of year test before third grade.  
FYI: Our SAGE Writing Test sessions are on next Tuesday, February 3rd and Wednesday, February 5th.  Please make sure your child has a nice big, healthy breakfast with lots of sleep!  

I am attaching another permission slip today(I know, another one…) for chewing peppermint gum during SAGE Testing. Studies show that the peppermint calms the students and helps them focus during long tests. Please read and submit the permission slip with your child before next Tuesday, February 3rd. Thanks for all your help and support!


Week of January 26, 2015

Announcements:
  • Our next field trip permission slip will be handed out this week. We will be going to the children’s theater in SLC.
  • We have a special pre-Superbowl inference activity planned for Friday which is going to be tons of fun!
  • The Sage writing test is next week and we will be working extra hard on our writing this week.
  • Last week’s math test went great!! I was so proud of all the hard work!
  • This next chapter (chapter 9) is one of our most challenging, but I know it is going to be great. If you have any question, please don’t hesitate to shoot me an email.
  • Thursday from 3:30-4:30 will be this month’s SEPs. Emails will go out Monday. 
  • Friday is a dress down day.
  • All the sorts are correct this week 🙂
***************************3rd Grade Homework Organizer**************************

Directions: Always keep this in your homework folder. Each day place a check in the box when you finish your homework. Have a parent initial the column and bring back this sheet every day in your homework folder. Students are required to read 20 minutes a day. Please record reading time on the attached document or on the Google document. It needs to be up to date every Friday. Reading Log 

Red Group- Green Sort 3

Green Group- Yellow Sort 47

Yellow Group-Yellow Sort 21

Orange Group- Yellow Sort 15


Monday

ABC sort
Have your child explain the sort rule to you and put their words in alphabetical order.
Tuesday
Speed Sort
Time your child doing the sort three times. 
Wednesday
No Peeking Sort
Read the sort words to your child aloud (without showing them) and have them write them under the correct rule column with the correct spelling. Thursday
Glue Sort
Glue down the rules and the sorts that follow those rules