Sausville's Class Notes

Week of March 30

 Happy Spring to everyone!

One more week until Spring Break!  After our break, it is one more week until the CRCT! 

 

 

 

 

 

If your child has access to a computer, the homework this week will be as follows:

Monday:  Do 20 questions of ELA on studyisland.com section 3a-Subject/Verb agreement and adjectives.

Tuesday:  Do 20 each of 3b-nouns and 3c-pronouns.

Wednesday:  Do 20 of 3d-complete sentences.

Thursday:  Do 20 each of 3f-capitalization and 3g-punctuation.

I will check Study Island reports each evening, beginning on Tuesday and will make study groups as necessary.  I will use the test results from Monday night on Tuesday and so on.  Thanks for your help with new homework assignment.  I will include the information in the agenda on Monday.

Calendar of Upcoming Events

Week of March 30  Book Fair

Tuesday, March 31  Authors' Night

Friday, April 3  "Hard Times Party"  wear old clothes and bring an apple for snack

Saturday, April 4-Sunday, April 12  SPRING BREAK

 

 

 

 

Week of February 23

 

Upcoming Events

March 2     Dr. Seuss' Birthday Celebration.  Thanks to parents who have volunteered their time to read to the class.  There's still time to sign up to share a favorite picture book or favorite Dr. Seuss book. 

March 3    EARLY RELEASE---Students home at 12:20.  Visiting author-Michael Finklea will be signing books for students who purchase a book.  Look for information in the Thursday folder.

March 4    Fifth Grade Writing Assessment--Our Special Areas time changes to 8:50 for today.

 

Writer's Workshop News

Students are working on writing the scripts for book commercials in Writer's Workshop.  Their job is to advertise the book to other students on film.  They are revising several times to craft the best impression for their book. We will also write other pieces to persuade readers to accept their point of view.

 

COMING ATTRACTIONS in MARCH

Author's Night!

Zoo Field Trip! 

 

 

 

January 30, 2009

PERFECT ATTENDANCE AWARD

Thank you to all parents!  Our class had 100% attendance for conferences this week! 

Calendar of Upcoming Events

January 29  Six Flags Reading Club begins

February 2  Groundhog Day/Jump Rope for Heart begins

February 3  Relay for Life Fundraiser Box Supper--5:30

                    PTA Meeting/CRCT Question & Answer Session--6:30

February 4  Early Release Day/Students dismissed at 12:25

February 10  Jump Rope for Heart ends--all donations due

February 13  Six Flags Reading Logs due/Valentine Exchange

 

I wanted to let you know that the correct georgiaoas.org log in number is in your child's agenda for parents who received numbers on Monday or Tuesday. 

If you attend the CRCT Information meeting next week, your student will receive a homework pass from me.  He/she will also be entered into a drawing for a CRCT practice book from SchoolBox.

Six Flags 6 Hour Reading Club information went home in Thursday folders.  Students have through February 12 to complete 360 minutes of recreational(at home) reading and return their completed form.  They will receive a free ticket to Six Flags for their reading.  Signed forms are due on February 13. 

Our class will exchange Valentines.  We will do this at our recess time on Friday, February 13.  Spelling words for the week will be classmates' names.

Just a heads up way ahead of time....The theme for our class basket for the Spring Fling Auction is BARBIE.  We will be asking for donations of Barbie stuff to fill our basket very soon.

                  

Happy 2009!

It is good to be back into the rhythm of school.  I hope everyone had a terrific winter break.  Your generosity and thoughtfulness made mine especially merry.  Thank you so much for sending your child rested and ready to learn every day. I am looking forward to seeing you at conferences this month.

January 2009 

1-19-09  No School

Martin Luther King Holiday

1/26-1/30  Conference week

Students leave two hours early each day

Chapter book Goal:  25 Chapter books by the end of the year

FROSTY LOSS PREVENTION

Please label all coats/jackets/sweaters/gloves with your child’s name to help prevent loss.       

We are focusing on reading fiction texts this nine weeks.  Students are learning a strategy to recall the plot of their story chapter by chapter.  They will receive grades for demonstrating this skill.  You can help by having them tell you the following information at the end of each chapter.

Somebody:

Wanted

But:

So:

Then:

 

Don't forget--Students can practice the CRCT online at home--log on to www.georgiaoas.org and use the ID and password from the October letter.  I will be giving that information to you again during conferences.  Also students can practice reading skills at www.studyisland.com using their school username and password.

 

 

 

 

Math Goals:

Continue practicing addition, subtraction, and multiplication facts for automatic recall.  This instant knowledge will help them tremendously in Math for YEARS to come!

Measurement to the nearest quarter inch, perimeter, and area

Fractions

 

Decimals

 

Multistep word problems

Thanksgiving Feast Invitation

You're invited to Third Grade's Thanksgiving Feast

at Big Shanty Intermediate School

on Tuesday, November 18

at 11: 27 a.m. in the Big Shanty Cafeteria

Week of November 3

A big THANK YOU to everyone who sent in canned goods for the Thanksgiving baskets.  We collected over 50 canned food items. We will keep collecting canned goods for filling baskets for our community for Christmas, so keep us in mind whenever you are grocery shopping. 

Calendar of Upcoming Events

November  4     Election Day/No school for students

November  7     Junior Achievement

November 11    PTA meeting:  Third Grade is performing

November 21    PIE Day--more information to come

Parents:  Please let us know if your child will be at the November 11 performance as soon as possible. 

Keep working multiplication facts.  Try learning one set at a time, and then combining two sets, then four sets and so on.  Try this link for fun multiplication practice:multiplication.com

This nine weeks we will be reading non-fiction texts.  Every student has a goal of at least one AR non-fiction book per week during class.  They are still reading chapter and picture fiction books at home.  The third grade reading standard is for every student to have read 25 chapter books at their reading level by the end of the year. Please remind students to write in agenda each day the starting and ending page and the time spent reading.  If it is a chapter book, only include the title once a week.

Special Areas schedule for this week:  Wednesday--meet in cafeteria for practice, Thursday--meet in cafeteria for practice, Friday--PE   

Students are now able to use www.studyisland.com for Reading practice.  They should use their school username and password.  I will print their individual passwords on a sticker and place it in their agenda.  Look for it by the end of the week.  The first thing they would need to do is to take the pretest and then they can choose any skill to work on.

9/29/08 Spelling Lists

Scarlet spelling patterns:  a-crash, i-dish, aCe-gate, iCe-pipe, ?

Scarlet words:  crash, dish, gate, pipe, plant, brisk, place, prime, flag, chimp, vase, whine, cramp, skim, stage, slice

Turquoise spelling patterns:  a-draft, al-salt, aw-crawl, au-fault, ?

Words:  draft, salt, crawl, haunt, sand, false, drawl, taught, laugh, blank, stalk, hawk, fault, watch, stab, cause

Goldenrod spelling patterns:  VCV open sylllable-clover, dipper-VCCV doublet, ?

Words:  clover, dipper, bacon, coffee, apple, gallon, frequent, migrate, solo, tuna, mammal, soccer, funny, crisis, glider, tunnel

Everybody words:  until, form, food, keep, children

Homework:  Make flashcards, write words in alphabetical order, divide words into syllables, write sentences that use all your spelling words.

VOCABULARY CHALLENGE:  LEARN THE MEANING OF ANY WORD THAT YOU DON'T KNOW. 

Week of September 29

Happy Fall!  Fall testing is complete and we are finally back on normal schedules. Thank you to students and parents for their hard work!

We are entering our third week of differentiated spelling.  You can help your child by talking with them about the different spelling patterns in their words and monitoring their spelling homework. They have a sort in their Thursday folder this week.  The patterns will be listed with the words in their agenda.   

Calendar of Upcoming Events

October 1  Mile Run--students wear tennis shoes

October 2  Chattahoochee Nature Center--don't forget to pack lunch/drink if you declined a school lunch.  Students should wear tennis shoes, play clothes, and bring a jacket/sweatshirt. 

October 7  PTA/Family Math Night---sounds like fun!

October 8  Picture Day

October 15  Early Release Day

Special Areas schedule for the next two weeks: Wear tennis shoes on PE days

9/29-10/3     M-ART, T-PE, W-PE, TH-PE, F-PE

10/ 6-10/10  M-Music, T-ART, W-PE, TH-PE, F-PE

Correction

Please note that Labor Day Holiday is September 1, 2008, not September 8. 

Week 2 is almost gone!  The first nine days have gone flown!  We are beginning to settle into the reading, writing, math, content areas and specials routines.  The class has visited the media center.  Our first computer lab visit will be on September 4.  Math compacting started on Tuesday of this week.  Fall will be here before we know it!

Calendar of Upcoming Events

Fundraiser Starts   8/21

PTA Open House   9/4  6:30 PM

Labor Day Holiday  9/1

Field Trip to Vulcan Quarry  9/15--meet Science standards for rocks/minerals

Cognitive Abilities Testing  9/17-9/19

ITBS  Testing    9/22-9/29

Our Performing Arts Field Trip this year will be to see a live performance at the Jennie T. Anderson Theater.  The show is based on the ride of Paul Revere.  We are scheduled to see the show in February.  Please consider making a donation to Cobb County School District's Performing Arts to support the wonderful programming planned for all students.

Unit Essential Questions for the 1st Nine Weeks:

1.  What role has ancient Greece has in shaping the way the United States is today?

2.  What are the similarities between rocks and minerals?

3.  What is the relationship between a digit's position and its value?  How do I recognize and show numbers up to ten thousand?  What strategies can I use to figure out how much time elapsed from the start to the end of an activity?

4.  How do I read and comprehend traditional literature?

5.  How do I write to share my opinion about what I read?

Question of the Week: What are morning procedures?

Answer:  Morning procedures are the things your child does everyday when they arrive at school.  If they are eating breakfast, they come in, put their pack on their desk, and go immediately to breakfast.

Breakfast (optional)

Unpack everything---no going back to pack later.

Hang up pack and get reading bag.  Hang bag on chair.

Restroom break/fill water bottles.

Sharpen two pencils.

Morning work---right now consists of Mountain Language and Math, will be adding spelling

As you can see, students begin preparing for their day quickly and start working right away.

Wish List for the Classroom:  tennis balls, playground kick balls, jump ropes, frisbees  (If you have a good source for any of these items, donations would be greatly appreciated by the kids.)