THIRD GRADE NEEDS YOUR HELP!

The Brown Bonanza is quickly approaching (Feb. 6th) and we are in need of some donations. Each grade level is putting together a themed basket to auction during the event. The 3rd grade theme is "Sports Fans". You can help by sending in items for the basket that relate to sports. With your help we can have the best basket to auction!!
Thanks from all the third grade teachers:)

Spelling: Because this is a short week, students took the pretest today and were given their spelling pages. They are due back on Thursday and the final test will be Friday. We will return to our normal schedule next week. The list is on Spelling City for practice.

Social Studies: We will be focusing on Martin Luther King, Jr. activities this week. We'll be looking and making timelines and activities that stress dealing with conflicts with words instead of force.

Math: We are continuing to work on telling time. We will finish up the chapter with a quiz on Friday.

Reading: We are coming to the end of the inferrencing unit and will finish it soon. Students listened to the new story (Sayings We Share) for the week today.

Top Readers

Drum roll please....yes, we do this in class as well:) Our top readers for the month of December are as follows: Jack with 531 minutes, Sam with 481 minutes, and Nick with 398 minutes. Great job guys! Our total reading minutes (at home) was 4,216. Quite a bit lower that the previous months but not unexpected with holidays and travel.

Check out our "Cooperative Snowpeople". Your child worked with a group to create these beauties. A lot of creativity went into them. If you are in the building, you should come see them up close. One is named Mr. Mike and has a tie and a briefcase. Another one is a lady with a purse and a head full of leaves for hair.

Winter party fun

Our winter party was a lot of fun. In the slide show, you'll see the kids working on a craft or in teams racing with cotton balls on spoons. We'd like to thank everyone who had a hand in planning, donating, or helping. We really look forward to our class parties:)