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Gift Basket Fund Raiser

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Hello Friends!

We are in the process of putting together a basket for POQA.  We thought it would be great fun to make a basket for IN STATE University Rivalries.  We are looking for items from BYU, University of Utah, Utah State, and Weber State.  (Please notice that those were put in alphabetical order so as not to upset anyone!)  If you have anything, or see anything that you would like to donate, please do, ASAP.  If you go to one of their games in the next week or so, please see if you can snag an extra FAN FREEBIE to add to our basket.  When the baskets are voted on, the most popular basket’s grade will receive 25% of the proceeds.  Yep, Third Grade wants to win!  

Thanks for all you do!

Here’s information from POQA:
Gift Baskets
Sponsored by POQA
Its competition time! Each grade will be responsible for putting together a basket. The theme is up to the grade to decide. Some possible ideas are listed below.
To make this happen, we need some donations from family/friends. Be creative and fun with the donations to fit the theme you’ve chosen. Feel free to ask companies for donations, purchase items, or re-gift items. All donations are due no later than Wednesday, November 12, 2014. 

We will have the baskets on display Nov 17-20th, 2014.
Voting will take place on the baskets to determine which basket is “People’s Choice” or most popular. Additionally, on the morning of Friday, Nov 21, a drawing will take place from the votes placed in that basket. A winner will be drawn for each basket to take home that day!
Grades in Q1 will be competing against each other. Grades in Q2 will be competing against each other. Essentially, this means there will be TWO “People’s Choice” winners. The grade in each school with the most popular basket will receive 25% of proceeds from the votes in that building. 
Voting will take place as follows beginning on Nov 17 and ending at close of business on Nov 20:
Purchase votes:
$1 per vote
             $10 for 12 votes
             $20 for 25 votes

Homework for the Week of November 3, 2014

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**************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-Yellow Sort 38 
Green Group-Yellow Sort 32
Yellow Group-Yellow Sort 20
Orange Group-Yellow Sort 14

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
  • 20 minutes of reading
  • Division Practice-Only Page 1 is required. Page 2 is optional extra practice.

Positive Me Week

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Oct 27-31

Monday- “Scare Away Poor Health”
Wear crazy socks
Health Questionnaire

Tuesday- “Scare Away Drugs”
Wear Red
“We Scare Away Drugs” – monsters

Wednesday- “Scare Away Bullies”
Show “team spirit” wear jersey or team t-shirt
RAK Bingo board

Thursday- “Scare Away Negativity”
Wear favorite accessory
Frighteningly Amazing books

Friday- “Scare Up Some Fun”
Wear costume
Halloween Parties

Homework for the Week of October 27, 2014

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**************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-Yellow Sort 37 
Green Group-Yellow Sort 31
Yellow Group-Yellow Sort 19
Orange Group-Yellow Sort 13

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

Halloween Party

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Parents,

I need a parent volunteer to be in charge of the Halloween Party on October 31. The party will be from 10:00 until 11:30 that day. I also am in need of some parent volunteers to help with the party during that time. Our parties usually consist of different games, crafts, and activities. If we want to have food I need to have a request in to administration by the end of the week. I passed around a sign up at back to school night, but I know plans change! If you did sign up there, still message. If you didn’t and would like to help, that would be great too! Please email me or comment on this post if you would be willing to help out!



THANK YOU! 
Ms. Young



Homework for the Week of October 20, 2014

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Please remember to bring in a clean, white shirt for our art project!!!!!!!
**************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-Yellow Sort 36
Bowen
Izzy
Hudson
Kaylee
Trinity

Green Group-Yellow Sort 30
JJ
Emilee
Mason
Gavin
Brayden
Madison
Ari
Jetson
Parker
Lyle

Yellow Group-Yellow Sort 18
Ellie
Micah
Kinsey
Daniel
Bella

Orange Group-Yellow Sort 12
Troy
Caden
Gabriel

Monday
ABC sort
Have your child explain the sort rule to you and put their words in alphabetical order.
Tuesday
Time your child doing the sort three times. 
Wednesday
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
  • 20 minutes of reading
  • Practice Multiplication

Announcements for Next Week

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  • There will be no official math homework or Words Their Way spelling sorts next week due to Fall Break.  
  • Students need to read everyday for 20 minutes and study their multiplication facts. This can be done on xtramath.org (my email is nyoung@questac.org, their login is their pin and their first name). or on multiplication.com (click on the games tab, there is no need to make an account).
  • I need every student to bring an clean, old white t-shirt to school on Monday or Tuesday of next week for an art project. This shirt will irreparably damaged 🙂 don’t bring anything you want back!
Thanks so much for all you do to support our class!!!

Multiplication Madness

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We are hitting multiplication really hard in math right now.  Starting after Fall Break (Monday, October 20th) we will begin Multiplication Madness!  Please start drilling and multiplying the multiplication facts with them over Fall Break.  The students are expected to drill their math facts at home also.  The students have to pass off their 0′s to 10′s for a required grade. Every student will be given 10 problems to pass off in one minute. Multiplication facts are a huge part of the third grade math core curriculum. The students will have to spend time at home working on these facts in order to pass them off in the time table we have set.  The students will have the opportunity to pass off their multiplication facts as many times as they can before the celebration.  We will focus on one fact a week, I will have the students mark the schedule in their planners.  Please check the planner tomorrow to make note of the schedule.  Our Multiplication Madness Banana Split Celebration will take place on Friday, January 15th from 2:00-3:00. 
**During Thanksgiving Break and Winter Break, students will need to spend time studying multiplication facts so they are prepared.  Weekends are a great time to work on multiplication facts (since there is no homework).**

Each part of the Banana Split is one of the multiplication facts that needs to be passed off. You will get that part of the Banana Split ONLY if you pass off that actual fact.
0′s – Placemat
1′s- Napkin
2′s – Bowl
3′s – Spoon
4′s – Banana
5′s – Scoop of Strawberry Ice Cream
6′s – Scoop of Chocolate Ice Cream
7′s – Sprinkles
8′s – Strawberry topping
9′s – Scoop of Vanilla Ice Cream
10′s – Chocolate Fudge topping
11′s – Whipped Cream
12′s – Cherry on Top!!!

Homework for the Week of October 6, 2014

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*****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-Yellow Sort 35
Bowen
Izzy
Hudson
Kaylee
Trinity

Green Group-Yellow Sort 29
JJ
Emilee
Mason
Gavin
Brayden
Madison
Ari
Jetson
Parker
Lyle

Yellow Group-Yellow Sort 17
Ellie
Micah
Kinsey
Daniel
Bella

Orange Group-Yellow sort 11
Troy
Caden
Gabriel

Monday
ABC sort
Have your child explain the sort rule to you and put their words in alphabetical order.
Tuesday
Time your child doing the sort three times. 
Wednesday
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 down the rules and the sorts that follow those rules