Mrs.

Goodnight’s Third
Grade News
Micanopy Area
April 12, 2010
Cooperative School

 Welcome back! I hope that you had a wonderfully relaxing

break. It’s time to get back into the swing of things. Are
you ready?

Weekly Assignments
Monday-
Math- p. 101 Snack
Spelling- practice test; write misspelled
words 3 x’s each
Read- 30 minutes Schedule
Tuesday- Week of 4/12
Math- p. 102
Spelling- 2 x’s each
Read- 30 minutes Monday – Zachery
Wednesday-
Tuesday-Tristan
Math- p. 105
Spelling- Rainbow Spelling Wednesday – Isabella
Language Arts- paragraph of the week Thursday– Mrs. G
assignment; details attached
Thursday Friday– Caleb
Math- p. 106
Spelling- practice test *We have 19 students.
Read- 30 min

Vocabular SPELLING LIST - VCV WORDS

Upcoming y/ *The link below is an excellent
Events/Dates Spelling resource that provides fun
practice for each week’s
to Remember Words spelling list. Scroll to the
4/15 Report story titled, “Boom Town” on
Cards go home the web page for this week.
4/18 Parent
delicious http://3rdgrade.pbworks.com/
Harcourt-Trophies-Spelling
Work Day filling belong future
4/23 North pastries hotel behind
focus tiger
Florida Farm crumbs miner become
Days Field Trip tasty pupil motel
4/29 State *scrumptiou begin baker
Floats due s music cabin
ocean
Bi
Social Studies-
This week students will continue their geography Math – Week of 4/12
unit. During their studies, students will learn to This week Third
identify where they live in terms of city or town, Graders will begin
county, state, country, and continent. Then students Chapter 18, Classifying
Plane and Solid Figures.
will begin learning the location of each of the 50
Students will focus on
states and their capitals. Please quiz your child on the characteristics used
these facts to help them memorize this information. to identify solid figures.
This month’s book response has been
incorporated into our geography unit. In lieu of Vocabulary-
reading a whole book for this month’s project, each
child has picked a state to research in further depth. face- a flat surface of a
Most of the research will be conducted in class solid figure
during computer lab. edge- a straight line where
However, I highly encourage you to take part in 2 faces meet
your child’s research during this project. You may corner- where two or
more edges meet
assist your child as he/she searches the internet to
plane- a flat surface that
find pictures or other items that he/she can use to goes on and on
create the float or simply to explore the state in plane figure- is a closed
further depth. As a culminating activity, students figure in a plane
will create a float representing the state that he/she
studied and present it to the class. Then we will
parade our floats around the school to show them to
the other classes.
READING- Parent Work Day,
Sunday, April 18th
THIS WEEK STUDENTS WILL READ, “BOOM TOWN.”
AS THEY READ, THEY WILL FOCUS ON IDENTIFYING FACT AND
OPINION, DEVELOPING VOCABULARY, AND REREADING TO This is a great way to earn
CHECK FOR COMPREHENSION AND IMPROVE FLUENCY. volunteer hours!
There are a variety of things
BELOW IS A LINK TO RESOURCES THAT WILL REINFORCE THE
SKILLS/STRATEGIES THAT YOUR CHILD IS WORKING ON IN
MACS needs your help with
CLASS EACH WEEK. CHECK IT OUT!!!
this day!
http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/trophies/  wash the third grade
grade_3.html windows (inside & out)
 help build flower planters
 pressure wash the
sidewalks & building exteriors
Writing-
Paragraph of the week-
Topic- favorite outfit
Due- Friday
Macs Cares
Reminder- Our class is creating a pink Meredith Goodnight
themed (for breast care awareness) Third Grade Teacher
basket that will be auctioned off at m.goodnight@micanopyarea
the spaghetti fundraiser on May 7th. school.org
Please send in items to help us to 352-466-0990
create a basket worthy of raising a
lot of money!!!