Important Information 9/27/10

• Please don't forget to send a coat to school with your child as our days are getting chillier.

• The science test date has changed-see below.

• There will be no homework except for reading this week.  If you want to work with your child at home, you can always review for our upcoming tests in science and math. In science you can review vocabulary and science tools notecards, the scientific method and inquiry skills.  Any Homelinks pages up to 1.12 can be used to review for math.

The week of October 4 will be our assessment week.  The schedule is as follows:

Monday - Ohio Achievement Practice Assessments - reading only
Tuesday  - Science Test
Wednesday -  Ohio Achievement Assessments   - reading only
Thursday - Math Test
Friday - Spelling Test

Scientific Method

Should know what the steps mean and the order:

1)  Observe and ask questions

2)  Form a hypothesis

3)  Plan an experiment

4)  Conduct an experiment

5)  Draw conclusions and communicate results

Science Inquiry skills

Should know what these terms mean:

Observe

Compare

Predict

Use numbers

Measure

Gather, record, display & interpret data

Infer

Classify/order

Use time/space relationship

Identify and control variables

Plan

Communicate

Formulate or use models

Homework 9/20/10

Math - Homelinks 1.11
Science - Review for test using notecards made in class.  Notecards should be in a blue envelope. Please keep in Take Home folder.
Spelling - Get spelling test signed by a parent and return in Take Home folder.

Newsletter 9/14/10

Reading/Writing/Language Arts

This week we continued working on Wisdom Books.  This week’s story was The Empty Pot by Demi.   “A long time ago in China there was a boy named Ping who loved flowers.  Anything he planted burst into bloom.  The Emperor loved flowers too.  When it was time to choose an heir, he gave a flower seed to each child in the kingdom. ‘Whoever can show me their best in a year’s time,’ he proclaimed, ‘shall succeed me to the throne.’  Ping plants his seed and tends it every day.  But month after month passes, and nothing grows.  Ping must go to the emperor with an empty pot.”  Ask your child how the story ends.

Math

We worked on the following skills:

·         adding, subtracting and skip counting with the calculator

·         place-value

·         representing amounts of money with coins using dollars and cents notation

·         Comparing and estimating with amounts of money

Science

We discussed components of the scientific method and experimented making large bubbles from a bubble wand made of straws and string.  Thanks to Morgan for bringing in the straws! We will have our first Science test on Tuesday, September 28. 

Thanks to Judith Cohen’s assistance, our newsletters and homework assignments are now available at http://larmeni.blogspot.com/.  Please check there for other information including Second Step lessons.  Unless you notify me, you will no longer receive hard copies of the newsletter.

                      

Ohio state tests for third grade in reading only starts the week of October 14.  Children who pass the test in the fall are not required to repeat this part of the test in the spring.  Please make sure your child gets a good night’s sleep each day this week.

                    

Wednesday, Sept. 22: Erev Succot, NO SCHOOL

Thursday, Sept. 23: Succot- NO SCHOOL

Friday, Sept. 24: Succot- NO SCHOOL

 Hoshanah Rabbah - 2:00pm dismissal

Thursday, Sept. 30: Shemini Atzeret - NO SCHOOL

Friday, Oct. 1: Simchat Torah - NO SCHOOL

                    

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Homework Week of 9/13

Monday

    Spelling Unit 2  

    Homelinks 1.8   

    Read15 minutes
Tuesday

    Spelling 3x each on notecards   

    Workbook Plus Sentence Review  

    Read15 minutes
Wednesday

    Spelling  Double Puzzle 

    Homelinks 1.9   

    Read15 minutes
Thursday

    Spelling study for test       

    Workbook Plus Sentence Review   

    Read15 minutes