Weekly Newsletter 9/29-10/3

September 29th- October 3rd
What are we doing this week?
HORN ·         This week in Math we will work on our Graphing Math Menu. ·          Students will also complete the Graphing Unit Assessment. ·         On Friday, students will be given a vocabulary assessment from our graphing unit. Study aide for that test will come home Monday 9/29.   ·         Students have been observing minerals and taking a closer look at them outside. We’ve discussed how they make up different rocks, the rock cycle, and luster. This week we will take a closer look at the process of weathering by completing a hands on activity as well as engage in a rock cycle scavenger hunt as a review for all we’ve learned thus far.	WOODS ·         This week we continue our novel study of the book Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner. Our focus skills during this unit are to respond in writing to our close reading of the text, and to understand our vocabulary terms in context. We will use a format that we will refer to as IRSC to help us with the responding! IRSC stands for Indent, Restate Question, Supporting Details and Evidence, and Closing Sentence. Participating in a novel study will also provide student with excellent opportunities to learn and practice critical thinking skills and literary discussion skills!   ·         We will practice identifying pronouns. ·         Students will also receive a new spelling list that includes words with tri-graph igh and that have suffixes. Here’s the Spelling City link for practice: spellingcity.com/paine3. We are currently on the Unit 2 Lesson 1 list.
HOMEWORK
WOODS: -Students must read for 20 minutes each night & record the number of pages they have read in the Agenda/Husky  Pad. Remember, we are now having students to log their at home reading in the very last section of the Agenda. Students should be recording the title of the book they read and the pages they’ve read.   HORN: Students must complete 30 minutes of Dreambox this week at home. Additional (low amount of problems) homework may be given if the teacher sees the need for practice of a particular skill. Remember Dreambox records time from Sunday to Saturday.
Tests HORN: Graphing Unit Assessment will be given at the conclusion of menu. Students will also be given a vocabulary test for our math terms that we learned during the graphing unit. List of terms will go home Monday and test will be Friday.   WOODS: Spelling Test on Thursday.

 

The Week Ahead…		Upcoming Events
Math	·         We will begin Multiplication Unit.	·         Club Day is Wednesday! ·         Trussville Walking Tour-October 10th ·         Don’t forget to send your child with Box Tops as you collect them from your favorite brands!
Science	·         We will continue our Rocks and Minerals Unit.
Reading	·         Continue Stone Fox Novel Study!
Language/Writing	·         Edit and revise 2nd draft of original Narrative Writing pieces! ·         Identify pronouns

Spelling Words

sky, dry, sly, why, myself, spied, spying, crying, cried multiplying, reply, replies, apply, applied, carrier, easier, high, right, fright, nightlight

Vocabulary  Words

proceed, mend, harness, irrigation, plow, mature, gully, harvest, bushel, derringer, ricocheting and lunge.

proceed	To move forward, to carry on	mend	To repair or fix
harness	Straps for a horse which connect to a plow	irrigation	A system used for watering plants in a field
plow	A tool used for cutting into the earth to prepare it for planting	mature	Ripe or full grown
gully	A small, steep valley created by flowing water	harvest	To gather crops when they are ripe
bushel	A unit of measurement for grains, fruits, etc.	derringer	A small gun
ricocheting	Skipping or bouncing off of an object	lunge	A sudden forward movement toward something

 

Weekly Newsletter September 22-26

Weekly Newsletter September 22-26
What are we doing this week?
HORN ·         This week in Math we will finish up a mini-lesson on how to represent a large amount of data on a bar graph. We will also begin investigating a line plot and how it is different from a bar graph and pictograph. The word “interpret” will be added to our math vocabulary wall and we will discuss it in context with the graphing unit. Students will spend a couple of days interpreting various data from graphs and answering questions with a partner. ·         The student work on the layers of the Earth is up in our room and we are proud of our work! Students worked hard to create their posters and decorate them! This week we will continue to learn all about the 3 different types of rocks and the rock cycle. We will begin with inventing our own definition of sedimentary rock, metamorphic rock, and igneous rock via research on iPads. Students will also learn about minerals this week. After we’ve read in our Science books about minerals, and taken some notes in our Science journals, students will participate in a minerals scavenger hunt!	WOODS ·         This week we are beginning a thrilling novel study of the book Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner. Our focus skills during this unit are to respond in writing to our close reading of the text, and to understand our vocabulary terms in context. We will use a format that we will refer to as IRSC to help us with the responding! IRSC stands for Indent, Restate Question, Supporting Details and Evidence, and Closing Sentence. Participating in a novel study will also provide student with excellent opportunities to learn and practice critical thinking skills and literary discussion skills! ·         We will continue to practice forming possessive nouns. ·         Students will also receive a new spelling list that focuses on reviewing long vs. short vowel sounds with doubling and dropping rules. Here’s the Spelling City link for practice: spellingcity.com/paine3. We are currently on the Unit 1 Lesson 6 list.
HOMEWORK
WOODS: -Students must read for 20 minutes each night & record the number of pages they have read in the Agenda/Husky  Pad. Remember, we are now having students to log their at home reading in the very last section of the Agenda. Students should be recording the title of the book they read and the pages they’ve read.- Students will also be required to practice a using the IRSC format to respond to a question in a paragraph either Wednesday or Thursday night. HORN: Students must complete 30 minutes of Dreambox this week at home. Additional (low amount of problems) homework may be given if the teacher sees the need for practice of a particular skill. Remember Dreambox records time from Sunday to Saturday.
Tests HORN: No tests this week. WOODS: Spelling Test on Thursday.

The Week Ahead…		Upcoming Events
Math	·         Math Menu for graphing unit ·         Depending on where we are in Math Menu, we may have a performance task.	·         Book Fair Family night Tuesday September 23 3:00-7:00. ·         Wednesday September 23 is the 3rd grade assembly at 8:15. ·         Friday Freeze is this Friday ·         Field Trip Money and Chaperone Fees will be collected this week! ·         Don’t forget to send your child with Box Tops as you collect them from your favorite brands!
Science	·         We will continue Earth and Space science.
Reading	·         Novel Study!
Language/Writing	·         Form Possessive Nouns ·         Continue original Narrative Writing pieces!

Spelling Words

cutting, bigger, dropping, hopping, hoping, shopper, sloping, slopping, liking, liked, braking, closing, shiny, shining, trader, bony, graded, muted, tuned, blaming

Vocabulary  Words

proceed, mend, harness, irrigation, plow, mature, gully, harvest, bushel, derringer, ricocheting and lunge.

proceed	To move forward, to carry on	mend	To repair or fix
harness	Straps for a horse which connect to a plow	irrigation	A system used for watering plants in a field
plow	A tool used for cutting into the earth to prepare it for planting	mature	Ripe or full grown
gully	A small, steep valley created by flowing water	harvest	To gather crops when they are ripe
bushel	A unit of measurement for grains, fruits, etc.	derringer	A small gun
ricocheting	Skipping or bouncing off of an object	lunge	A sudden forward movement toward something

Mistake

Hey Parents!


I made a mistake on last week's Weekly Newsletter. We aren't studying two/three dimensional figures and we aren't studying area/volume yet. Sorry for the mix-up.


Laney Horn

September 15-19

Weekly Newsletter September 15-19
What are we doing this week?
HORN ·         This week in Math we will talk about how large amounts of data are represented on a pictograph. We will use our own data from class birthdays to create our own bar graph. We will also talk about how to record large amounts of data on a bar graph. This encourages students to focus on the scale and interval on a graph and know why they are important. After a discussion on interval and scale, we will create a bar graph for all of the birthdays on our Purple Hall at Paine Intermediate. (This forces students to focus on how they will create a scale and interval that will represent a large amount of data).   ·         Students have had the chance to conduct two separate experiments using the Scientific method. Ask them about the Gobstoppers! This week we will be finishing up a Graphic Organizer from a nonfiction story as well as creating a poster illustrating what we’ve learned about the inner Earth. Upon completing our poster we will begin talking about one of Earth’s materials, ROCKS! We will learn all about the 3 different types of rocks and the rock cycle through watching videos, taking notes, and reading articles.	WOODS ·         We will begin an exciting narrative nonfiction unit built around the story Bat Loves the Night by Nicola Davies. This informational text presents information in the form of a story.  This story begins on p.200 of our Storytown book (with the bulldog cover). . We will use the reading skill of sequencing to help us comprehend the text. This unit will also provide several opportunities for our kids to interact with various nonfiction texts about bats in order to build background knowledge about our topic. This will also allow students to apply the knowledge they constructed last week about nonfiction texts and their features! ·         We will discuss practice forming possessive nouns ·         Students will also receive a new spelling list that focuses on words silent consonants. We will also look at words with diagraph ph and the (f) sound. Here’s the Spelling City link for practice: spellingcity.com/paine3. We are currently on the Unit 1 Lesson 5 list. ·         To stay fresh on the Map Skills we learned in a previous unit, we will discuss Continents and Oceans during a portion of our Daily Schedule called Daily Geography.
HOMEWORK
WOODS: -Students must read for 20 minutes each night & record the number of pages they have read in the Agenda/Husky  Pad. Remember, we are now having students to log their at home reading in the very last section of the Agenda. Students should be recording the title of the book they read and the pages they’ve read. -Students will receive a Continents and Oceans sheet on Monday to complete at home. It is due FRIDAY.   HORN: Students must complete 30 minutes of Dreambox this week at home. Additional (low amount of problems) homework may be given if the teacher sees the need for practice of a particular skill. Remember Dreambox records time from Sunday to Saturday.
Tests HORN: No tests this week.   WOODS: Spelling Test will be on Thursday; Vocabulary and Sequencing Quiz on Friday; Continents and Oceans Quiz Friday.

 

The Week Ahead…		Upcoming Events
Math	·         We will begin discussing tables and how they relate and can be used to create a graph. ·         We will investigate line plots and talk about the similarity between it and a number line. ·         We will add a new word to our Math vocabulary “Interpret”	·         .Picture Day is September 17th!   ·         Field Trip Money and Chaperone Fees will be collected this week!   ·         Don’t forget to send your child with Box Tops as you collect them from your favorite brands!
Science	·         We will continue Earth and Space science.
Reading	·         Read and comprehend  multiple Nonfiction texts. ·         Determine the sequence of a text.
Language/Writing	·         Form Possessive Nouns ·          Continue original Narrative Writing pieces!
Social Studies	·         Correctly identify the Seven Continents and Five Oceans.

Spelling Words

gnat, gnarl, gnome, sign, knee, knock, knit, knife, knot, write, wrinkle, wrist, wrong, thumb, lamb, plumber, phrase, phone, gopher, graph

Vocabulary  Words

blanketed, surrounded, plummeted, inverted, nocturnal, effort, dozes, swoops, detail, and fluttering.

blanketed	to be covered by something	swoops	to dive or dip downward
surroundings	the area around something	detail	a small feature
nocturnal	to sleep during the day and be active at night	fluttering	to move through the air lightly and quickly
effort	working hard	plummet	to drop suddenly from a great height
dozes	to take a short nap	inverted	when something is turned upside-down or inside-out