Third Grade Weekly
Newsletter
MARCH 21, 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 legends and
orcas. Students will write an essay
using the text from this week’s
lesson.
Math
We will begin studying geometryfocus quadrilaterals, 3D shapes,
angles, lines and polygons
Homework:
Read 20 minutes every night
Math worksheet
Spelling: write words 3 times, abc
order, sentences, and study
We will continue our unit on the
Reconstruction of the South.
Science:
We will begin Science again in May.
Spelling List/
Vocabulary
1. sure
2. own
3. minute
4. awful
5. nothing
6. careless
7. selfless
8. helpless
9. thoughtless
10. useless
11. lovable
12. laughable
13.respectable
14. usable
15. treatable
Upcoming Dates:
1. everything
2.finally
3. sometimes
March 2-April 184. really
SC Ready after
school program
5. only
on March 2nd.
6. lamp
The program will
7. stamped
run 3 days a week
(M, W, TH) from
8. clamp
2:30- 4:15 and
9. damp
end on April 18th.
10. champion
March 28-April 1
11. branch
Spring Break
12. local
April 4 Report
13. state
card
14. county
15. mayor