Third Grade Weekly Newsletter February 1, 2016 Science: Curriculum Corner ELA To help prepare for the South Carolina Ready Test, we are combining our reading and writing. What we read in shared reading we will also be writing about. Our focus will be teaching students to be close readers and be able to think and write about the text. Math We will continue working on division, but we will also be working on how to solve division word problems. . Our unit on rocks will begin this week. We will look at the different types of rocks and how they are classified. Spelling List/ Vocabulary 1. Color 2. Country 3. Soil 4. weigh 5. Women 6. Coloring, 7. colored, 8. countries 9. soiled 10. weight 11. Weighing 12. woman, 13. men 14. man 15. many Upcoming Dates: Homework: Read 20 minutes every night Feb. 1-Hat Day (Reading Our Way to a Million) Math worksheet Feb. 3-PS Progress Report Spelling: write words 3 times, abc order, sentences, and study Feb. 11-PTSO Valentine’s Day Dance Feb. 15- No school for students Feb. 18-PTSO “Love”-5:30