Week of 10/17/2016

Ahoy!

We have a wet and rainy week ahead of us! Here is what is happening in the classroom.

Reading:
This week we are studying a text called Thunder Cake. We have really been focusing on a character and their motivations, this week we will take a turn and look at how actions in a story change the character. Ask your student to retell the story to you!

Math: This is the last week of unit one! We are taking our unit 1 assessment this week and will be doing our unit 2 pre-assessment the end of this week! I am excited to move on and start diving into 3rd grade math!

Writing: This week we are really focusing on writing our realistic fiction narratives. Writing full pieces in 3rd grade is a big jump from writing in second grade. We are working on writing paragraphs in our pieces. We are also working on character/setting/problem/solution plan for our stories. Our workshop model supports having students at different stages of writing, but there is a general timeline that pieces need to be finished. If class time is not used efficiently you may see writing work come home in the purple folder.

Homework Prompt: What would happen if you could fly whenever you wanted? What would it be like? What would you do?

Spelling Words:
they
what
their
said
many
over
our
think
also
those
large
often
together
asked
house
don't

Reminders:
-Read n Quiz is up and running. If you go to the Lacamas Heights website and click on library links you will be able to access the Read n Quiz login page.
-I have 8 people currently signed up for conferences. Please fill out the pink form that went home on Thursday and return it in your child's purple folder.
-Next week is conference week, students will be released at 1:10 everyday.
-This is the last week for our box top competition.
-Friday is the Human Carwash.

Mystery Questions:

1)What three forms of precipitation can fall from the sky?
2)Which continent is the driest on earth?
3)What are forests that experience high levels of rainfall called?
4)Where are there rainforests in the world? Name three locations.
5) What's the record amount of rain ever recorded in Camas, WA?
6) How many inches of rain fell on Clark County this past weekend (Sat/Sun)?

Have a great week!
Miss Irwin