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A Look Back
really We had a fantastic
week of learning! The stu-
probably dents got a chance to do a
really neat experiment during
teacher
science after we learned a
inventor little more about matter. We
fried ice! That’s what Bill
hunter Nye the science guy would
tell us we did. What we actu-
player ally did was change water
from a solid to a liquid and
actor
then a gas. What I really
tourist wanted them to see what the
change in the temperature in
leather the matter. We studied how
to read thermometers and
Christmas what to look for on different
types of those tools. The stu-
Arctic Ocean dents now know what the
freezing point is in both Cel-
Indian Ocean
sius and Fahrenheit, as well as
DATES TO
the boiling point to change
REMEMBER
11/25 Early out for
Thanksgiving vacation
A Peek to Next Week
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School—Thanksgiving With Thanksgiving
vacation fast approaching, we will start
11/19 Luigi’s Pizza
a story about Pilgrims. It’s
night called Molly’s Pilgrim and
tells the story of a little girl
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who grows to understand
We’ll have them for
what and who a pilgrim really
Christmas this wayr
is. This story really helps the
N O V E M B E R
water to a gas. They should
be able to explain both of
these to you. We’ve talked a
lot about multiplication and
the properties of multiplica-
tion. We’ll be moving
through this quickly and
learning some more strategies
to solve higher level thinking
problems with multiplication
and division. We will start
timed tests after Thanksgiv-
ing. We are practicing in the
classroom, however the stu-
dents will make flashcards
and use those to practice at
home and at school. Those
notes will come home soon.
During reading, we read a
story called Thunder Cake, by
Patricia Palocco. We focused
on context clues, cause/effect,
students grasp pilgrims in a
different light than what we
traditionally think. We’ll
focus on comparing/
contrasting, vocabulary and
context clues, summarizing
and friendly letters. This
story will take us all the way
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author’s purpose, and se-
quence of events. I also threw
in a favorite word for students
to say…onomatopoeia. It’s a
word that is a sound that
sounds like the word. For
example, boom or moo, are
both onomatopoeia. During
writing, we focused on nouns,
adjectives, verbs, and ad-
verbs. While leaning those
lessons we wrote about our
heroes. The papers are turn-
ing out wonderfully. I’m
touched by these writings.
Classroom Rule:
Have fun at lunch,
but use your best
manners.
to Thanksgiving break! We’ll
also work on learning new
concepts in multiplication and
division, while working on
fact fluency and practice.
During science we’ll continue
working with changes in mat-
ter and sneak in a few science
experiments. We’ll get to
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Next Week Cont.

study a bit about why our
founding fathers wrote the
Constitution and what the
importance of the Declara-
tion of Independence is.
We’ll take a look at how
life was different back then
and how what they did
changed life for us now.
Overall, it’s going to be a
busy week, but it should be
a lot of fun!

Ask Me, I Know!

How is the water cycle What does an adjective
Children need similar to changing describe?
models rather matter?
than critics. What does an adverb
At what degree Celsius describe?
-- Joseph
Joubert does water begin to
What is the answer to a
boil?
multiplication called?
At what degree Celsius
does water freeze?

Appreciation and Reminders

Thank you to every-
one who could be
sending in cleaning
wipes! We try to
keep our room clean
and these help out a
lot!
Please remember to Thank you for helping
sign your child’s as- your child be success-
signment book each ful in third grade!
night.
Don’t forget to sign
and return the math
check-ups that come
home each Friday.

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