Third Grade Weekly
Newsletter
MARCH 14, 2016
Social Studies:
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. This week our
focused text will be nonfictionbiographies Harriet Tubman, Abigail
Adams and Thomas Edison. Students
will write an essay using the text from
this week’s lesson.
Math
Tuesday will be our unit test on
identifying fractions, number line,
sets and how to compare equivalent
fractions.
Wednesday, we will begin studying
geometry-focus quadrilaterals.
Homework:
Read 20 minutes every night
Math worksheet
Spelling: write words 3 times, abc
order, sentences, and study
We will begin our unit on the
Reconstruction of the South.
Science:
We will begin Science again in May.
Spelling List/
Vocabulary
1. really
2. usually
3. probably
4. finally
5. especially
6. friendly
7. suddenly
8. quietly
9. geometry
10. biography
11. angle
12. square
13.rectangle
14. rhombus
15. parallel
Upcoming Dates:
March 17
1. everything
Stem/Math Night
2.finally
5:30
3. sometimes
4. really
5. only
6. lamp
7. stamped
March 2-April 188. clamp
SC Ready after
9. damp
school program
10. on
champion
March 2nd.
program will
11. The
branch
3 days a week
12. run
local
(M, W, TH) from
13. 2:30state4:15 and
14. end
county
on April 18th.
15. mayor
March 28-April 1
Spring Break