The Wonderful World of Third Grade
12-5 to 12-9

Please send your child’s Santa Shop money on Wednesday morning.

For December students will be required to take and pass one AR test,
on a chapter book.
These tests can be taken prior to break or the first days back after break.

We will not have any Simple Solutions this week.

Our play is on December 12th at 1:30 & 7:00.  We will be practicing at school this week, please continue to practice your child’s lines this week. 


This week in religion students will continue to learn about the Jesse tree and the Advent season.  Students will also celebrate St. Nicholas Day.  We will be celebrating the Immaculate Conception Mass on Thursday at school.  This is a Holy Day of obligation, and we will not attend Mass on Friday as a school.

In Math we be reviewing subtraction and taking the quiz on chapter 3 on Thursday.   Students will also be practicing their multiplication.  Timed-tests will be on Thursday.  Thirty minutes of IXL is due on Friday.

This week is Spelling List #13.  All of the words are posted on Spelling City, and the test is on Friday.

In Science students will begin to work on comparing and contrasting ecosystems.

In Social Studies students will use the character traits associated with Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer to create an acrostic poem.   We will also work on the continents and oceans with a mapping project.

In reading we will be focusing on comprehension strategies finishing our December National Geographic.

In Language Arts students finish their Christmas legends.  We will also look at story elements and cause and effect.

Have a wonderful week!