What’s Happening This Week? – Jan. 28 – Feb. 1
3rd grade edition
Reading:
Reading:
• Author Study: Roald Dahl
• Books: The BFG
• Genre: Fiction
• Comprehension Skills: Using
the text to confirm answers
Writing/Reading:
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Genre Study: Persuasive Writing
6-trait focus: - organization, word
choice, and sentence fluency
The kids are really getting into their letters
to smokers encouraging them to stop
smoking!
Spelling Words:
sometimes
pickup
dishwater
notebook
upstairs
football
sunshine
outdoors
hallway
timeout
doorway
sunset
bookcase
everyone
everything
Math
Patterns, Algebra, and Expressions
• We will be focusing on finishing
number patterns, verifying their rules
with algebraic expressions, and
algebraic expressions.
Social Studies
We are learning about how our
state and government works. We will be
learning about the three branches of
government. We will be reading about
citizenship this week as well.
Grammar:
Object Pronoun - takes the place of one or
more nouns in the predicate of a sentence.
Subject pronouns include me, you, him,
her, it, us, them.
A SUBJECT PRONOUN COMES AFTER THE
VERB!
Examples:
Why does my brother always pester me?
The mom went to the store to buy him a
poster board.
Vocabulary:
vocabulary words will be in your
reading packet for the Roald Dahl book studies.
CALENDAR & NOTES from Mrs. Merillat:
Just when I thought it was going to get warm again… here goes the
cold front! I hope we can stay healthy this time around!
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February 12 and 13 – Half Day release for parent teacher conferences
February 18 – No School
March 8 – Last Day of Spring Quarter
JANUARY BIRTHDAYS!
Ashley – January 8
Naomi – January 18
SCHOLASTIC BOOK ORDERS
I have a new link on my website that gives directions on how to order books from our
Scholastic Book Club class account online. You just need to have the class activation
code and your credit card to do so. So… check out my website if you are interested in
ordering books at any time!
AR HOME CONNECT
You can access your child’s AR information by going to the Jacobson website and click
on the library link. Mrs. Cartan has the information on there!