Download Third Grade Newsletter Date: 02/20/17 Week of February 20 – 24

Third Grade Newsletter
Week of February 20 – 24, 2017
Date: 02/20/17
Spelling List
Subject Summary
Math:
 Reviewing Properties of Multiplication
 Working on all multiplication facts through 9’s
 Missing factors
 Area and Perimeter
 Telling Time to the nearest minute
Spelling words /k/ and /kw/ sounds:
Thursday 02/23/17 multiplication facts test on
5’s and 6’s.
Tuesday 02/28/17 multiplication facts test on
7’s.
NEXT WEEK CHAPTER TEST
Language Arts-(Reading, Grammar, and Spelling):
Our story this week is an Informational Text
"A Tree Is Growing" along with Poetry text
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".
This weeks lesson will be focused on Text and
Graphic Features, Domain Specific Vocabulary,
and Questioning. We will also work with the Verb
Be, helping verbs and word roots.
POPCORN FRIDAYS will begin this Friday. For
50 cents your child can buy a bag of popcorn, a
note is coming home today also.
shark,
squeeze,
check,
squeak
queen,
quart
circus,
quick
flake,
coldest
crack,
Africa,
second,
Mexico
Vocabulary Test:
pollen- tiny yellow grains made by flowering
plants
store- to put away for later use
clumps- groups or bunches of things, especially
plants and dirt
passages- narrow paths or channels
absorb- take in or soak up
throughout- all the way through
coverings- the outsides of things, usually serving
as protection
spines- sharp pointy growths
tropical- having to do with the warm areas of
the earth near the equator
dissolve- to seem to disappear when mixed with
liquid.
This Week’s Tests/Homework
Monday
Presidents Day
NO SCHOOL
Tuesday
HW packet will
come home.
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Spelling/Vocabulary/Reading
test
HW packets due