Week of 1/14/13 - 1/18/13

Happy New Year and welcome back to “normal.” It was good to get back into a routine and I hope the students are feeling the same way. We have our “Matter Matters” in school field trip on Monday. Scientists will come into our classroom and show us some experiments using matter. It should be fun and interesting!

This is the last week of quarter 2. We are halfway through the school year; I am amazed at how quickly it has gone by!  

Coming up next week:

Spelling: Pretest on Monday, Lesson 14; test on Friday. Cursive HW due Tuesday. Two challenge activities OR wb page 252 (Vol I) & ABC order due Thursday.   Spelling bee practice will be on Thursday.

English: We will start dabbling in our text book this week and begin adjectives while we work on our autobiographies.

Reading: We will be writing an extended responses on Night of the Pufflings. We will also be continuing our lessons on facts and opinions. There will be a fact & opinion quiz on Friday.

Social Studies: We are continuing chapter 3, “People Move from Place to Place” this week. There will be an open book/open notes graded review on Lesson 2 on Tuesday and one on Lesson 3 on Friday. Tentative test date for chapter 3 is Friday, 1/25. Also, be on the lookout for a letter and planning sheet regarding the 3^rd grade culture day. Letters will be coming home on Tuesday.

Science: Our chapter 11, Properties of Matter, test is scheduled for Tuesday. We'll start chapter 14 (our next chapter) on Thursday with lesson 1, What Is Heat?

Mrs. Klacza's Math Class: We will not have math on Monday due to our Matter Matters field trip. Tuesday we will “wrap up” chapter 20 with lessons 7 & 8 on problem solving and temperature. We will review the entire chapter on Wednesday and have our test on Thursday. Chapter 21 will follow. We've learned about customary measurement, and now it's on to the metric system!  Please make sure your child is practicing his/her multiplication facts!   Lots of retakes on Monday...

Important Dates:

1/14 - “Matter Matters” in-school field trip
1/17 - Practice Spelling Bee in classroom

1/18 – End of Quarter 2

1/21 – Martin Luther King Jr. bday – Day off
1/24 - Mrs. Klacza's Spelling Bee
1/28 - 3rd grade Bee

1/30 – Early Dismissal day – 11:00 for PV

Have a great weekend! Mrs. Klacza