3rd Grade: Mrs. Giesler

We will be starting our math unit on multiplication this week. The students will be learning their multiplication facts and be tested over them each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. As they pass each timed test, they will advance in the “Multiplication Milky Way” to the next number and earn a fun sized candy bar each time.  After they have passed their 12’s, they will earn a full sized candy bar! If you would like to participate by donating either a package of fun sized candy bars (Milky Way or other favorite) or a package of full sized candy bars to the classroom for this project, we would greatly appreciate it!

We will be changing the format of our spelling test beginning next week (January 25, 2012).  As many of you know, the same format was implemented in second grade near the end of the school year.  The test will be multiple choice and will be given as a pretest on Wednesday with Smart Response Clickers.  Students will have to distinguish between correct and incorrect spelling of their weekly spelling words. If students receive 100% on the pretest they will be exempt from the paper test on Friday.  However, all students will continue to take the dictation test on Friday.  This format will help prepare students with the proper test taking skills for the spelling section of the M.A.P. Test.  The more the students are exposed to this format the less anxiety they will experience during the state testing.

Language:  M.A.P. practice, write the walls, conference with students on their writing piece, quotation marks

Math:  symmetry, tetrominoes, congruency, slides, flips, turns, graphing temperatures

Social Studies:  opportunity cost, bartering, taxes

Reading:  Sequencing, daily 5, guided reading with nonfiction, poetry for fluency, expanding vocabulary,

MCTEACHER NIGHT:  We will be having a McTeacher Night on January 23rd from 4-8pm at the Willard McDonalds!!!  Class with the most attendance will win a happy meal party!

MCDONALDS’ COOKIE SALES:  We are preselling a baker’s dozen of McDonald’s chocolate chip cookies in the office before McTeacher Night.  If you want to preorder your cookies, please send your money in to your child’s teacher.

SUPER TIGER CELEBRATION:  Will be on January 25th at 2:30

COSTUMES FOR COMMUNITY:  This month we will be celebrating costumes for community on Friday, January 27th.  Our theme is backwards day! 

We will be changing the format of our spelling test beginning next week (January 25, 2012).  As many of you know, the same format was implemented in second grade near the end of the school year.  The test will be multiple choice and will be given as a pretest on Wednesday with Smart Response Clickers.  Students will have to distinguish between correct and incorrect spelling of their weekly spelling words. If students receive 100% on the pretest they will be exempt from the paper test on Friday.  However, all students will continue to take the dictation test on Friday.  This format will help prepare students with the proper test taking skills for the spelling section of the M.A.P. Test.  The more the students are exposed to this format the less anxiety they will experience during the state testing.

Language:  M.A.P. practice, Write to a prompt, follow writing process, homophones

Math:  Perimeter, telling time, using calendars, and 2 dimensional shapes

Reading:  Inferring, poetry for fluency, expand vocabulary, fiction reading in guided reading, daily 5

Social Studies:  Supply, demand, scarcity, cost benefit, and choices

NO SCHOOL for students Monday Jan. 16th.

MCTEACHER NIGHT:  We will be having a McTeacher Night on January 23rd from 4-8pm at the Willard McDonalds!!!  Class with the most attendance will win a happy meal party!

MCDONALDS’ COOKIE SALES:  We are preselling a baker’s dozen of McDonald’s chocolate chip cookies in the office before McTeacher Night.  If you want to preorder your cookies, please send your money in to your child’s teacher.

SUPER TIGER CELEBRATION:  Will be on January 25th at 2:30

COSTUMES FOR COMMUNITY:  This month we will be celebrating costumes for community on Friday, January 27th.  Our theme is backwards day! 

Language:  Writing conventions, capitalization, punctuation end marks

Math:  measurement:  U.S. and metric units, ounces, pounds, perimeter

Reading:  beginning/ending sounds in words, nonfiction story elements, poetry for fluency, expanding vocabulary, guided reading.

Social Studies:  Economics: consumers/producers.

We have put out our nonfiction writing in our hallway for display.  If you get  a chance come by and use a post-it to compliment a student on their writing.  We have posted what the students have been working on so if you could comment on those things it would be great!  There are even post-its out by the writing for you!

Language:  Grammar:  suffixes, Writing:  Martin Luther King

Math:  Division

Reading: story elements with fiction, poetry for fluency, and vocabulary

Social Studies:  Economics: resources, goods, services, production

Language/Science:  finish writing our 3 paragraph informational essays on spiders.

Math:  Assess counting the class,

Reading; book  Holidays Around the World,  video on holidays, read Snowflake Bentley

Video:  “Polar Express”

Book Exchange:  Please have your child bring a gently used from home that he or she no longer wants to keep.  Please gift wrap it and have your child bring it on Monday, December 19.  We will exchange the books on December 21, so everyone will have a new book to read over the break.

Super Tiger: December 20th 2:30 pm

Winter Party:  December 21st 9:30-10:15 am

Friday, Dec. 16th box top reward!!

Language:  Write the walls, Non-fiction reading and writing.

Math:  Multiplication, story problems

Reading: focus main idea, poetry for fluency, M.A.P. practice, connections, vocabulary

Science:  writing about spiders

** Santa’s Workshop begins next Tuesday!

**December 8th will be our Reading Night 3:30-7:00, forms and $5 are due no later than Dec. 6th

Language:  pronouns and the writing process

Math:  subtraction problems up to 3 digit with regrouping

Reading:  Main idea, poetry for fluency, vocabulary, use word parts to find meaning.

Science:  Erosion, volcanoes/earthquakes, resources

SUPER TIGER CELEBRATION 2:30 on Nov. 30th

Language:  Sentence Fluency, pronouns,

Math:  More travel problems, estimation, compare length/height, comparing quantities, Who has more?

Reading:  M.A.P. practice, compare/contrast, poetry for fluency, vocabulary study, accuracy practice with stretch the word.

Science:  Soil, Earth’s layers, volcanoes/earthquakes

Language:  thankful paragraphs  NO SPELLING OR DICTATION

Math:  timed subtraction, telling time assessment, game:  How Far From 100?, travel problems

Reading:  T’was the Night Before Thanksgiving, compare/contrast

Have a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving!!!

Language:  finish final copy of The Three Little Pigs story, adjectives, Thanksgiving writing- rough draft, revise, edit, final copy.

Math:  capture 300 game, mental math, stacking strategy for addition, collections match game.

Reading:  MAP activity with compare/contrast, fluency with poetry, vocabulary work, good fit books, guided reading focus on compare/contrast.

Science:  rocks and minerals