Third Grade News Week of November 6th, 2011 Goodnight's Gators m.goodnight@micanopyareaschool.

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Important Dates to Remember 11/11 Veteran's Day; Hug a veteran! 11/22 Thanksgiving Feast 11/23-11/25th Thanksgiving Holidays

Reading
This week students will read the selection, Little Grunt and the Big Egg. Students will continue to work on word relationships (synonyms, homophones, homographs, and antonyms). They will also study irregular plural nouns. Thurs. Making connections between school and home

Homework & Snack

Subject Mon Reading Read 30 min. Math p.5253 Tues. Read min. Wed. 30 FCAT 13

L. Read 30 is very helpful in promoting retention of minutes material for children. Below you will find a link to a Harcourt Trophies site that is organized by theme and story and provides p.57-58 extra practice with the vocabulary and comprehension skills that we are working on in class. :) We are currently working out of Theme 2 and working on the skills covered in Little Grunt and the Big Egg. Thurs.Ayden http://www.vrml.k12.la.us/3rd/homework/rea ding/trophy3/voc/voc.htm

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Spelling 3x's each

Sentences Test tomorrow! Hannah

SNACK DAYS

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Spellilng Words- Words with /oi/ joyful moist noise boiled choice spoil employ destroy voice royal soil pointy joint annoy loyal

MATH Students will continue Chapter 3, Solve Multiplication &

Division Problems. Please encourage your child to spend at least ten minutes a day using flash cards to memorize the multiplication facts 0-10 or use one of our online resources such as www.multiplication.com or Fact Dash located under the chapter resource tab via our online math text.

Writing-

topic- descriptive paragraph about fall; using strong verbs and specific nouns