October 30th - November 3rd

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REMINDER: Tuesday is a MINIMUM DAY! The students will be released at 1:00 P.M. We will be having a parade at 8:30 a.m. Parents are encouraged and welcomed at the parade. It is a minimum day and due to the time constraints there will not be a class party. Please do not send food or treats to school. Thank you. The students will be having regular work and assignments for the school day.

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SPELLING

3rd Grade:
along, bought, close, something, seem, laughed, lady, enough, graph, paragraph, photograph, history, village, future, hometown, settlers

4th Grade:
extend, keyboard, monitor, vowel, portal, tunnel, against, pastel, numerical, fatal, oval, towels, chapel, tinsel, distributive, compatible, consumer


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SCIENCE

This Friday will be a Chapter 2 test for both grade levels. We will have a review day on Thursday. We will be starting Social Studies next week.

3rd Grade - Chapter 2
Lesson 1: When Environments Change
Lesson 2: How Do Living Things Compete?
Lesson 3: How Do Living Things Change Environments?

4th Grade - Chapter 2 Interactions of Living Things
Lesson 1: How Do Organisms Depend on Each Other?
Lesson 2: How Are Organisms Adapted to Survive?
Lesson 3: How Do Organisms Compete?

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MATH

 3rd Grade

Monday: 6-1 The Distributive Property

Tuesday: 6-2 3 as a Factor

Wednesday: 6-3 4 as a Factor

Thursday: 6-4 6 and 7 as a Factor

4th Grade

Monday: 7-1 Arrays and Multiplying 2-Digit Numbers by Multiples of 10

Tuesday: 7-2 Using Mental Math to Multiply 2-Digit Numbers

Wednesday: 7-3 Using Rounding to Estimate

Thursday: 7-4 Using Compatible Numbers to Estimate 

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October 23rd - October 27th

Welcome to Red Ribbon Week!
Reminder to all students to wear red on Tuesday.
We will be having a Red Ribbon Assembly on Tuesday.
Wednesday is red hat or crazy hair day.
Thursday is the Harvest Festival!

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REMINDER: Next Tuesday is a MINIMUM DAY! The students will be released at 1:00 P.M. We will be having a parade at 8:30 a.m. Parents are encouraged and welcomed at the parade. It is a minimum day and due to the time constraints there will not be a class party. Please do not send food or treats to school. Thank you. The students will be having regular work and assignments for the school day.

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SPELLING

3rd Grade:

1. firelight 
2. heartbeat 
3. hillside 
4. mountaintop 
5. thunderclap 
6. treetops 
7. underwater 
8. woodstove
9. convey
10.  mood 
11. aspects 
12. companions
13. kindhearted
14. reluctantly
15. vanished

4th Grade:

1. chicken
2. enchanted
3. fantasy
4. fifteen
5. invented
6. mixture
7. princess
8. insights
9. participation
10. portrayed
11. requires
12. topic
13. improve
14. contrast
15. obliged 
16. puzzled 
17. earnestly 

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SCIENCE

Continuing with Chapter 2 in both grades. They each have three lessons. We will be working on these lessons for the next 2 weeks.

3rd Grade - Chapter 2
Lesson 1: When Environments Change
Lesson 2: How Do Living Things Compete?
Lesson 3: How Do Living Things Change Environments?

4th Grade - Chapter 2 Interactions of Living Things
Lesson 1: How Do Organisms Depend on Each Other?
Lesson 2: How Are Organisms Adapted to Survive?
Lesson 3: How Do Organisms Compete?

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MATH

 3rd Grade

Monday: 5-5 10 as a Factor

Tuesday: 5-6 Multiplying by Multiples of 10

Wednesday: 5-7 Problem Solving: Two-Question Problems

Thursday: Chapter 5 Practice Test in Class

4th Grade

Monday: 6-5 Multiplying by 1-Digit Numbers

Tuesday: 6-6 Problem Solving

Wednesday: Chapter 6 Practice Test in Class

Thursday: Chapter 6 Test Online in Class

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October 16th - October 20th

SPELLING

3^rd Grade

island, unwind, sacrifice, provided, might, fighting, myself, cried

even, freedom, honey, hungry, leave, pieces, queens, screamed

4^th Grade

admitted, ordinary, crocodile, gigantic, lying, right, sixty-six, terrified

abundant, communicate, refused, used, adult, continued, uncover, usually

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SCIENCE

Continuing with Chapter 2 in both grades. They each have three lessons. We will be working on these lessons for the next 2-3 weeks.

3rd Grade - Chapter 2
Lesson 1: When Environments Change
Lesson 2: How Do Living Things Compete?
Lesson 3: How Do Living Things Change Environments?

4th Grade - Chapter 2 Interactions of Living Things
Lesson 1: How Do Organisms Depend on Each Other?
Lesson 2: How Are Organisms Adapted to Survive?
Lesson 3: How Do Organisms Compete?

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MATH

 3rd Grade

Monday: 5-1  2 and 5 as Factors

Tuesday: 5-2 9 as a Factor

Wednesday: 5-3 Multiplying with 0 and 1

Thursday: 5-4 Patterns for Facts

4th Grade

Monday: 6-1 Arrays and Using an Expanded Algorithm

Tuesday: 6-2 Connecting the Expanded and Standard Algorithms

Wednesday: 6-3 Multiplying 2- Digit by 1-Digit Numbers

Thursday: 6-4 Multiplying 3- and 4- Digit Numbers

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READING

October 9th - 13th

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MATH

3rd Grade

Monday: 4-5 Problem Solving: Writing to Explain

Tuesday: In class Chapter 4 Practice Test

Wednesday: Online Chapter 4 Test

Thursday: 5-1 2 and 5 As Factors

4th Grade

Monday: 5-5 Using Rounding to Estimate

Tuesday: 5-6 Problem Solving: Reasonableness

Wednesday: In class Chapter 5 Practice Test

Thursday: Online Chapter 5 Test

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SPELLING

3rd Grade

1. upon
2. thought
3. strong
4. story
5. bust
6. stream
7. street
8. distance
9. least
10. hundred
11. east
12. zero
13. nothing
14. amount
15. string
16. straight

4th Grade

1. hours
2. twenty
3. products
4. happened
5. whine
6. measure
7. remember
8. early
9. utensil
10. mortal
11. vocal
12. mental
13. neutral
14. anvil
15. council
16. abundant
17. thrive
18. canopy
19. nutrients
20. resist
21. retain

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Science Update: Students in 3rd Grade took their Chapter 1 test on Friday, and so did 4th grade. I am working on grading them and will return them as soon as possible. 

We will be now starting Chapter 2 in both grades. They each have three lessons. We will be working on these lessons for the next 2-3 weeks.

3rd Grade - Chapter 2

Lesson 1: When Environments Change

Lesson 2: How Do Living Things Compete?

Lesson 3: How Do Living Things Change Environments?

4th Grade - Chapter 2 Interactions of Living Things

Lesson 1: How Do Organisms Depend on Each Other?

Lesson 2: How Are Organisms Adapted to Survive?

Lesson 3: How Do Organisms Compete?

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READING

October 2nd - 6th

REMINDER: Picture day is on Tuesday, October 3rd!! Students have free dress day for picture day.
Thursday is our first spirt day and it is Sports Day! Students are encouraged to wear something that represents their favorite sport.

Parents, I have resent home two forms that were handed out in the beginning of the year. The park permission slip and the District form about student names in programs. They were misplaced and I apologize if you are filling this out for a second time, but we need them.

Spelling Words:
3rd Grade 

1. trade
2. start
3. city
4. earth
5. hope
6. stone
7. follow
8. broke
9. sign
10. tiny
11. whole
12. wave
13. current
14. electric
15. science
16. round

I hope you don't follow the broken signs to the city fair.
I said I would trade with you the whole bag of apples from the start.

4th Grade

1. twelve
2. across
3. today
4. during
5. metaphor
6. simile
7. quiz
8. however
9. proposal
10. dental
11. gerbil
12. nasal
13. postal
14. hemisphere
15. climate
16. inverse
17. population
18. rainforest 
19. taiga

Today I sat across from the class pet gerbil during the quiz on the taiga.
What is the climate of a southern hemisphere rainforest?

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MATH

3rd Grade

Monday: 4-1 Multiplication as Repeated Addition

Tuesday: 4-2 Arrays and Multiplication

Wednesday: 4-3 The Commutative Property

Thursday: 4-4 Writing Multiplication Stories

4th Grade

Monday: 5-1 Arrays and Multiplying by 10 and 100

Tuesday: 5-2 Multiply by 10 and 100

Wednesday: 5-3 Breaking Apart to Multiply 

Thursday: 5-4 Using Mental Math to Multiply 

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