January 25

Religion:  Next week we will be celebrating Catholic Schools Week. Here is the schedule for the week:

Monday, January 28: Celebrating Your Community-Wear a shirt representing a community/program you have been involved in (team, Girl Scouts, Battle of the Books, Choro, etc) and uniform pants. Tuesday, January 29: Celebrating Your Students- Spirit Wear with your choice of bottoms. The students will be going to a movie to celebrate! Wednesday, January 30: 11:20 Dismissal Celebrating The Nation-Dress Up for Jesus! Thursday, January 31: Celebrating Vocations- Wear school appropriate clothing that represents something about St. Francis of Assisi Friday, February 1: Celebrating Faculty, Staff and Volunteers- Pajamas!

**Friday will also be our Volunteer Luncheon. So many of you help our school to be the best it can be. Please come and let us celebrate you!

Writing: Next week we will focus on Onomatopoeia with our Mentor Sentence. The students will focus on revising their first drafts of fiction. They will also try to come up with meaningful endings to their stories.

Math:  Our next unit will focus on geometry. The vocabulary we will focus on for next week will be quadrangles and polygons. The students will be expected to know the characteristics of each type we review. They will need to give the most specific name they can for the polygons.

Spelling: Week 17 Sounds of ew & ue (new & blue) / Verb Endings - s, es, ed, ing

The spelling section of the website contains all of the weekly lists and the choice words in case your child misplaces their words.  You can also find a copy of LSCW if you need it.

Science/SS: Students will continue working on their presentation posters for their Inventions. Please join us for the Invention Convention on Friday, February 1 from 12:15-1:00.

Comprehension: We are starting to work on the comprehension strategy of wondering and questioning. We are writing down our thoughts as we read, and we are reading to see if our predictions actually happen in our stories.

January 18

Religion:  Next week we will continue to discuss parables and how to find symbols in them to learn about God's kingdom. The students will read the parables and also watch short videos depicting them.

Writing: This week we focused on quotation marks with our Mentor Sentence. We are continuing to draft our own fiction stories. This week the students used the character's words and actions to help the reader understand the story better.

Math:  Next week we will be reviewing Unit 5. The test over the unit will be on Wednesday, January 23. Our next unit will focus on geometry. There will be a lot of vocabulary to review and learn. This is a fun unit with lots of hands-on activities to help the students understand the concepts. We will start with lines, line segments, rays, angles, parallel and intersecting lines, and triangles.

Spelling: Week 16 Sounds of OO (moon and took) / Verb Endings - s, es, ed, ing

The spelling section of the website contains all of the weekly lists and the choice words in case your child misplaces their words.  You can also find a copy of LSCW if you need it.

Science/SS: Students will be watching "Our Friend Martin" in observance of Martin Luther King Jr Day on January 21. A reminder that the Blank Poster Board and edited Planning Sheet are due on Thursday, January 25. Invention Convention is Friday, February 2 from 12:15-1:00.

Comprehension: We are continuing to enjoy our class novel, Stone Fox. This week the students choose specific passages from the story and explained why that part of the story stood out to them. We will finish the book next week.

January 11

Religion:  Next week we will begin a mini unit focused on parables. We will read the Parable of the Mustard Seed together and try to figure out what Jesus wanted us to learn about the Kingdom of God through the story.

Writing: Mentor Sentence: Using Quotation Marks
The third graders are continuing to work on fiction stories. They are quite excited about it! This week we worked on describing our characters with their dialogue and actions.

Math:  We will continue working with larger numbers in Unit 5. There will be some introduction of decimals and fractions as well. The students will be expected to know their place value to the millions as well as low as the hundredths place.

Spelling: Week 16 Sounds of OO (In moon and took) / Verb Endings - s, es, ed, ing

The spelling section of the website contains all of the weekly lists and the choice words in case your child misplaces their words.  You can also find a copy of LSCW if you need it.

Science/SS: Students will watch "Our Friend Martin" in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. A reminder that the Blank Poster Board and edited Planning Sheet are due on Thursday, January 24. Invention Convention is Friday, February 1 from 12:15-1:00.

Comprehension: This week we started reading a class book called Stone Fox. We will use a myriad of comprehension strategies while working on this text. This week we worked on creating discussion questions for a chapter.