The Wonderful World of Third Grade

4-16 through 4-20

Happy Earth Week!

Our Week:

If you are ordering from Scholastic this month the orders are due tomorrow.  There will be one more Scholastic order in the month of May.

Thursday will be a Missions dress-down day to celebrate Earth Day.  Third Grade will wear the Earth Day shirts we created last week. 
All of the donations will be donated to a Parish family that lost many items in a house fire due to smoke damage.

Students will be learning about the rain forests through books and movies as we pledge to take care of our wonderful planet earth!

Third Grade finished our fifth Chapter book of the year, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM, as a class!  We will be watching the movie version this week to compare and contrast the book with the film.

This week’s Simple Solutions are lessons #89 through #92.

Spelling Unit #27 is posted on Spellingcity.com and the test will be on Friday.

In reading we will be finishing the National Geographic Magazine for the month of April.  Students will read focus on vocabulary and comprehension. 

In language arts we will be continuing our celebration of National Poetry month.  Students will hear many poems and work on creating their flipbooks.

In Math we will finish Chapter 6 with our test on Thursday.

In Religion students are finishing Chapter 16, with a quiz on Wednesday.

In Social Studies we are continuing our economics unit.  This week students will choose how to use their flexible income.

In Health we will begin our unit on development and the body systems.  This week students will create a timeline and review the lifecycle.