Thursday, January 28, 2010

Weekly Newsletter 1/25/10

**NOTES TO PARENTS**

This Wednesday is our 100th Day of school. This is a VERY important funding day for our school. It is important that your child is at school and on time that day. We will have special activities and a free cook out for lunch that day. This is also a free dress down day for the students.

February 5th is Mid-quarter. If your child has a 75% or lower in any subject you will receive a progress report. Otherwise you will not receive a progress report.

Love of Reading week is the week of February 8th through the 12th. If anyone would like to volunteer to read to the class please let me know by Friday. We will have a couple of guest readers in our room this week as well.

Thank you to all the parents that sent in supplies for the classroom. We are still in need of pencils and crayons.

There will be NO homework on Wednesday.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at misty_fite@yahoo.com or 721-4205.

** WHAT WE ARE LEARNING**

In Phonics, we will work on the continental a.

In Math, we will be writing a fraction to show a part of a whole, subtracting facts 5 and 6, adding three-digit numbers, and identifying ordinal position.

In writing and language arts, we will review our adjectives and adverbs unit and test on Thursday.

In Science, we will continue to learn about rocks and minerals.

In Social Studies, we will continue to learn about Rome.

Spelling List
Monday – Write words three time each
Tuesday – Write words in a sentence
Wednesday – Write words in ABC order
Thursday – Study
Friday –Test

1. all
2. walk
3. also
4. talk
5. always
6. almost
7. already
8. water
9. small
10. watch
11. warm
12. called
13. false
14. wanted
15. warning
16. quarter
17. August
18. because
19. fault
20. drawings

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Weekly Newsletter 1/19/10

**NOTES TO PARENTS**

I hope everyone had a nice 3-day weekend.

We are in need of a few supplies for to get us through the rest of the school year. If you can help us out with any supplies it would be greatly appreciated. We are in need of pencils and crayons. Our remaining supplies will get us through the rest of the year.

Wednesday, January 27th is our 100th Day of school. This is a VERY important funding day for our school. It is important that your child is at school and on time that day. We will have special activities and a cook out for lunch that day.

February 5th is Mid-quarter. If your child has a 75% or lower in any subject you will receive a progress report. Otherwise you will not receive a progress report.

Love of Reading week is the week of February 8th through the 12th. If anyone would like to volunteer to read to the class please let me know by Friday. We will have a couple of guest readers in our room this week as well.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at misty_fite@yahoo.com or 721-4205.

** WHAT WE ARE LEARNING**

In Phonics, we will review sight words.

In Math, we will be telling and showing time to the minute, rounding a number to the nearest hundred, comparing fractions with denominators of 2, 3, and 6, writing a fraction to show a part of a whole, and adding three-digit numbers.

In writing and language arts, we will finish our unit on adjectives and adverbs.

In Science, we will continue to learn about rocks and minerals.

In Social Studies, we will continue to learn about Rome

Spelling List

Tuesday – Write words three time each
Wednesday – Write words in a sentence
Thursday – Write words in ABC order & Study
Friday –Test


1. young
2. earth
3. sure
4. enough
5. bought
6. hour
7. eye
8. move
9. once
10. fought
11. father
12. whose
13. thought
14. brought
15. mountain
16. early
17. learn
18. often
19. heard
20. friend

Monday, January 11, 2010

Weekly Newsletter 1/11/10

**NOTES TO PARENTS**
There will be NO school Monday, January 18, 2010 due to Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday.

We are in need of a few supplies for to get us through the rest of the school year. If you can help us out with any supplies it would be greatly appreciated. We are in need of pencils and crayons. Our remaining supplies will get us through the rest of the year.

Wednesday, January 27th is our 100th Day of school. This is a VERY important funding day for our school. It is important that your child is at school and on time that day. We will have special activities and a cook out for lunch that day.

It is very important that your child be at school and on time. If your child is late to class he/she is not only missing important instructional time but are disrupting others when they come in late. Please make sure your child is on time!!

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at misty_fite@yahoo.com or 721-4205.

** WHAT WE ARE LEARNING**

In Phonics, we will learn about trigraphs and quadrigraphs.

In Math, we will be learning how to subtract two-digit numbers, write numbers to 1,000 using words, add and subtract multiples of 100, multiplying by 2, look for a pattern to solve a problem, and draw a picture to solve a problem.

In writing and language arts, we will continue our review of adverbs and adjectives.

In Science, we will continue to learn about life cycles of animals and plants.

In Social Studies, we will continue to learn about Rome.

Spelling List
Monday – Write words three time each
Tuesday – Write words in a sentence
Wednesday – Write words in ABC order
Thursday – Study
Friday –Test


1. right
2. night
3. might
4. bright
5. catch
6. edge
7. eight
8. itch
9. matches
10. patch
11. pitched
12. scratched
13. snitch
14. stretching
15. twitch
16. judge
17. ledge
18. pledge
19. smudge
20. trudge

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Weekly Newsletter 1/4/10

I hope everyone had a nice relaxing holiday break. I want to thank all the students for making the first semester great. Thank you to all the parents and students for my wonderful Christmas presents. I loved them all.

I hope all the students as well as parents are ready for a very busy and productive second semester.

Everyday the students will take a sample mini-test of a couple of concepts that might be on the AIMS test. I want them to be as familiar with the format as possible.
We will also be working very hard on multiplication. Please work with your student at home on the facts.

Students will be writing a lot this semester. We are working on a project in conjunction with the other 3rd grade classes.

** WHAT WE ARE LEARNING**

In Phonics, we will review the vcv syllable division, accent, and schwa.

In Math, we will be learning how to square numbers, identifying perfect squares, showing three and four-digit numbers using base ten blocks, subtracting facts, following a recipe, and setting a dial and determining elapsed time.

In writing and language arts, we will review adverbs and adjectives.

In Science, we will continue to learn about life cycles of animals and plants.

In Social Studies, we will continue to learn about Rome.

Please remember to sign the paper that came home with your child’s report card. It is important that I get it back to know if you would like a conference.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at misty_fite@yahoo.com or 721-4205.

Spelling List

Monday – Write words three time each
Tuesday – Write words in a sentence
Wednesday – Write words in ABC order
Thursday – Study
Friday –Test


1. over
2. paper
3. music
4. equal
5. study
6. never
7. ever
8. copy
9. given
10. second
11. seven
12. planets
13. about
14. began
15. ago
16. amount
17. report
18. belong
19. Friday
20. thousand