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Thank you for attending Back to School Night.
It was so wonderful to meet you all and talk about the wonderful things we will be learning this school year.


HOMEWORK FOR THE WEEK OF September 11th - September 15th

Spelling Lists: The students will now have Spelling Menus on the back of their Reading menu. Students will select ONE activity for each day and write the spelling homework in the reading journal to keep things organized. Spelling tests will be on Monday mornings. So students have a whole week with the words and the weekend to study the words. Spelling tests will have the words and two sentences where spelling and punctuation are important.

THIRD GRADE

1. high
2. every
3. near
4. west
5. dress
6. best
7. next
8. else
9. checked
10. grand
11. stand
12. punish
13. monarch
14. migrate
15. butterlfy
16. nectar

FOURTH GRADE

1. rolled
2. fingers
3. except
4. speed
5. couldn't 
6. questions
7. catch
8. itself
9. button
10. bargain
11. certain
12. orphan
13. fountain
14. oxen
15. latitude
16. longitude
17. compas
18. absolute
19. equator 
20. compensation

MATH HOMEWORK

THIRD

Monday: 1-7

Tuesday:  Review for Test

Wednesday: No homework because Math Test in Class

Thursday: 2-1

FOURTH

Monday: 3-5

Tuesday: 3-6

Wednesday: Review for Test

Thursday: No homework because Math Test in Class

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CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

3RD GRADE- MATH

This week students will be completing Chapter 1 in place value. They will have a practice test on Tuesday and the online in class test on Wednesday. Starting on Thursday we will begin Chapter 2 of addition and subtraction means and properties.

4TH GRADE - MATH

This week students will be completing Chapter 3 in Place Value with a practice review test on Wednesday and an online in class test on Thursday. On Friday we will move on to addition and subtraction of whole numbers. 

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3RD GRADE- READING

Students have begun using the Benchmark textbook in class. They will be working on Unit 1 Government for the People. We will be working on annotation key details and finding main ideas. Rereading to find text evidence. Short vowels. Sequence. Comparing and Contracting from two texts on the same topic. 

4TH GRADE- READING

Students will be working in Unit 1 of Government in Action. We will be working on annotation key details and finding main ideas. Rereading to gather text evidence. Long and short A. Use genre features to compare and contrast two texts on the same topic. 

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3RD GRADE - SCIENCE

Students will be learning about the different habitats including forest, dessert, ocean, pond, grassland, and tundra. 

 4TH GRADE - SCIENCE

Students will be learning about the parts of an Ecosystem including nonliving and living.