THIRD GRADE GOSSIP

October 17, 2012

Announcements! Announcements! Announcements!

Thank You:

Joyners Beautification Day: For coming out to help at Joyners Beautification Day! The school is looking especially wonderful now thanks to all of your efforts! COG-AT Testing: For making sure that your child was on-time and prepared for the COG-AT Testing last week. Next week is Spirit Week!: Patriotic Monday: Wear stars, strips and/or red, blue, and white Tourist Tuesday: Wear your fanny pack, camera, binoculars, favorite souvenir t-shirt, etc Wacky Tacky Wednesday: Mismatch Favorite Team Thursday: Jerseys, t-shirts Joyner Spirit Friday: Blue and gold or Joyner t-shirt

Updates:

Case 21: Next week Wednesday, the students will be taking a county wide test called Case 21 for reading. This is a test that will be given in small segments each quarter in order to help the students prepare for the EOGs. It is not considered to be a part of their grade. Testing will occur in the morning so please make sure that you have your child at school on time, having already eaten breakfast, by 8:30 next Wednesday. They will test for a second time in math on Monday, October 29th. Reminders:

Communication: Just a reminder that all of the latest happenings are posted on our third grade blog http://jyjthirdgrade.blogspot.com that is updated weekly. Mrs. Orr has also started posting our bi-weekly newsletter on there. Make sure you check it out!

October 19 : Early Release (12:30 dismissal) October 22nd - 26th: Spirit Week October 24th Case 21 Testing October 26th: Joyner Jamboree (5:30 8 PM) October 29th: Case 21 Testing October 31st: Teacher Workday (No school for students.) November 6th: Teacher Workday (No school for students.) November 7th: Report cards issued November 12th: Veterans Day (No school) November 21st 23rd: Thanksgiving break
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Mark Your Calendars:

Review: 2D/Plane Polygons:

Math

Reading
In reading, weve been continuing to examine a characters point of view (how they think or feel) from different texts. We have studied the opposing views of two different characters in the same text, how our point of view can be different from a characters, and even how a characters point of view can change from the beginning of a text to the end of a text. We are looking forward to starting our study on fables, folktales, and myths next week and within those genres, specifically focusing on lesson and message. If you havent already sent in a family story for this unit, and you are interested in doing so, please send it in by next Monday (October 22nd). Thanks for your help! I.B.Unit: No Bones About It
In Science, weve started our study of the human body by looking closely at bones. We have been discussing the three main functions of bones to support, protect, and help us move. We are moving towards discussing muscles (which contract and extend in order to make the bones move) and joints (the places where two bones meet that allow people to bend.)

In math, we have been diving deep into geometry these last two weeks. Students have been studying types of lines (parallel, perpendicular), types of angles (acute, obtuse, right), polygons (triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon, etc.), and types of triangles (acute, obtuse, right, isosceles, scalene, and equilateral) in order to be able to classify and categorize different polygons.

New: Unknowns

Unknowns: 242 89 = or 89 + = 242

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242

Writing
The students are continuing to learn the writing process (prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing) through writing a personal narrative. They have practiced revising their work (adding or subtracting words in order to make a piece of writing stronger), editing (Capitlization, Understanding, Punctuation, Spelling), and are moving towards the peer conferencing/publishing stage. Its quite exciting!

Science