Ward’s What’s Happenings?
McLees Academy of Leadership
Week of September 9, 2013
LeaLeader
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Fall Pictures!! Our class will have our picture day on
September 13. Be sure to dress and wear your best
smiles! Photos will have proofs sent home and
Reading: What better way to start third grade than to
read/connect with a character in third grade as well? We will
be reading How to be Cool in the Third Grade novel unit. These
books will stay at school. RAH logs are done DAILY!!
Writing/Grammer: Your leaders will be continuing cursive
writing and learning/applying the “Writing Process” and
“Writing Traits” to their writing pieces.
returned.
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Read, read, read every night. Don’t forget to record
it on your RAH logs.
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Ice Cream is sold EVERY Friday.
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We will have a Social Studies Test on FRIDAY over
the “Regions of South Carolina.” Notebooks should
be studied nightly. That includes reviewing the
maps.
Math: .We are continuing our new unit on “Number Sense.” We
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Be on the lookout for your child’s Social Studies
Notebook coming home. It is so important this year
will be learning the Addition and Subtraction Properties, using
mental math to add and subtract, and finally rounding numbers to
the nearest 10 and 100.
that your child stays up to date on the studying of
their notes. There is a great deal of notes in the
third grade Social Studies curriculum.
Social Studies: We are continuing our fun unit about South
Carolina. Your leaders will learn about the regions of our beautiful
state and the characteristics for each region. Be sure to study the
notes daily.
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Don’t forget to check out my webpage. It is
ALWAYS a work in progress, however I do provide
websites for learning/practicing third grade skills
and spelling words. Enjoy!!
Science: .We are studying the seed/plant lifecycles. Ask
your child about their new planting activity.
Spelling Words (prefix un- which means “not” and the suffix –able which means able to do. We also have the -ink
chunk)
breakable, lovable, unhappy, unknown, unlikely, unable, think, stink, blink, shrink
Challenge Words (Worth 2 extra points each on Friday! Do study them all week!)
usable, unsinkable, shrinkable, unthinkable, unspeakable
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