Ward’s What’s Happenings?
McLees Academy of Leadership
Week of November 11, 2013
LeaLeader
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Grandparents lunch will be Thursday, Nov. 21. It will
begin for third grade at 11:20. Please look over the
TAN Form sent home on Friday, Nov. 8 in your
Reading: We will begin another Reading Novel Unit called, 7 X
9 = Trouble. What a fun way to connect with our character
learning his facts along with your leader learning theirs. 
child’s folder. Please return the form if your leader
is participating. Thank you!!
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Our class is in FIRST place for the Read for a
Gamecocks Ticket. Part 2 started up again on
November 4. Let’s keep it up!!! We want to stay in
Writing/Grammer: Your leaders will be continuing cursive writing
first place!!! Remember, even if you don’t want your
and learning/applying the “Writing Process” and “Writing Traits” to
their writing pieces. We are writing Narrative (story) Writing piece.
ticket, I can take them and use them. 
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I will be sending home a research project with the kids.
Your leader has chosen a biography to do the project on.
Most of the project will be done at school, however they
can do some at home. If you look on my webpage, I have
Math: . We will be working on Multiplication. It is important your
biography website links that you can use as well for more
child practices their facts up to 12. I will teach them the
Multiplication Rap and strategies to multiply. This week and next we
will be learning numerous strategies for why/how we multiply.
resources. Be sure to keep and send in the rubric back with
the finished project. It will be due at a later date. They
will work on this in class as well. No worries.
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Social Studies: Continue reviewing the many notes sent home.
Graded papers were sent home today, Friday,
November 8. I will have the grades in the
computer ASAP. I do have them in my paper
hard copy grade book. Sorry for the
inconvenience.
Science: We will begin our Motion Unit. Position words
such as “above, behind, next to, below, etc..”
Spelling Words
awful really tough enough impossible terrible problem only again several
Challenge Words (Worth 2 extra points each on Thursday! Do study them all week!)
distance above below underneath straight
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