Transcript Reading/Language Arts

3rd Grade Academy
TEAM NOTES
Personalized Learning Parent University Night is this Thursday, Nov. 12, at 6:30 p.m.
If you haven’t RSVP’d already, please do so as soon as possible! You child is very excited about their class being chosen to pilot this program,
and we want you to be a part of this exciting new adventure, too!
Yearbooks
Yearbooks are now on sale! Order before December 20 to receive the Early Bird Discount of $18. To preorder, send in cash or money order to your child’s teacher or
order online with a credit card at http://ybpay.lifetouch.com using the ID Code: 10663015. Yearbooks will also be on sale next week during both STEM Nights.
www.pendalearning.com
Students have username and password in their agendas. (CLASS WITH MOST PENDA POINTS EACH MONTH WINS!)
www.mobymax.com
Look for username and password in your child’s agenda.
www.brainpopjr.com
username: sawgrassbay
www.spellingcity,com
search schools, type “sawgrass bay elementary”, find Third Grade, scroll to bottom, locate
upcoming testing dates, play FREE games with your vocabulary and spelling words
password: sawgrass
Sawgrass Bay School Website http://www.lake.k12.fl.us/site/Default.aspx?PageID=6923
STEM – Mrs. Miller
Learning Goal Math – Area of a closed figure
At the end of the year, your child will take a timed test on
multiplication facts. They need to start practicing their tables
at home.
Learning Goal Science – The Scientific Method – Students will
put their science boards together.
Reading/Lang. Arts – Mrs. Fulton
In Reading this week, we will be focusing on
point of view by determining the point of view of
the main character or the narrator in a story.
Here are some questions to ask when you are
reading with your child:
1. How does the character feel about …? (something
2.
3.
4.
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videos. To access my page simply go to the Sawgrass Bay
website:
http://www.lake.k12.fl.us/sbe
5.
that happened in the story)
What in the story shows that this is how they feel?
How do you know? What did the character do?
What lesson did the character have to learn in the
story?
What is the character’s point of view about this
lesson? (Is it important, impossible, crazy, etc.?)
Is your point of view about this lesson the same or
different than the main character’s? Why?
Next, click on classrooms, 3rd grade, and Mrs. Miller.
In Language Arts, we will be finishing up with
verbs (verb tenses, irregular verbs, and noun-verb
agreement) with a quiz on Monday. Then we will
be working on adjectives. Your child should know
the basics of what a noun, verb and adjective
are!
UPCOMING TESTS
IMPORTANT DATES
Reading/Language Arts –
Mon., 11/10 – Grammar Quiz – Verbs
Wed., 11/12, Spelling Test (first word “ice”)
Math – Friday, 11/14 – quiz on Area
Tue., Nov. 11 – NO SCHOOL – Veteran’s Day
Wed., Nov. 12 – Personalized Learning Parent
University Night, 6:30 p.m.
Thurs., Nov. 13 – STEM Night – 5:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Book Fair – Nov. 5 – 13, open during Stem Night
Science – Final science project grade
Thanksgiving Break – Nov. 24 - 28
HOMEWORK
STEM HOMEWORK
11/10 – area
11/11- NO SCHOOL
11/12 – area
11/13 – area
READING/LA HOMEWORK
All of the Smart 7 Strategies have to be used to get credit
for homework!
Mon., 11/10 – Diego Rivera, Famous Artist, p. 61 (Making Inferences)
Tues., 11/11 – No School
Wed., 11/12 – Lost in a Backpack, p. 62 (Making Inferences)
Thurs., 11/13 – Not-So-Speedy Sam, p. 169 (Making Inferences)