~Third Grade News~

Mrs. Eichmeier

“When given the choice between being right or

being kind, choose kind.” --Mr. Browne

Reminders & Notes…

Please make sure your child has the necessary clothes for winter outdoor recess.

(hat, gloves, jacket, boots, and snowpants.)

Classroom Wish List Items for December:

empty cereal boxes, ziploc bags sandwich size

Classroom Christmas gift exchange will be on December 21st. We will do a 5$ book exchange instead of a toy item. Please wrap your book and bring it to school no later than December 20th. Thank you!

Christmas Snacks
For December 21st
Sweet Treat- James
Sweet Treat- Lila
Healthy Treat- Kaden M.
Healthy Treat- Beau
Juice bags/boxes- Jasmine M.
Napkins/Plates- Caeden P.

Christmas Concerts will be on December 20th at 1pm and 6pm at the High School Gymnasium.

Spelling: Long U Patterns: u_e, ew, oo, ue

Reading:

*Christmas Theme Literature Circles

*Review synonyms, antonyms, adverbs

*Fluency-year end goal 100 words per minute. *Accuracy- year end goal 97%

*Retelling in your own words- a cut score of 30

-WONDER-

We were so excited and lucky to see the movie WONDER! The kids absolutely loved it! It was and will continue to be a great example of friendship, love and kindness. We will continue to reference this message in our daily classroom and I encourage you to do the same in your home. Our world could use a little extra kindness everyday! Thank you for allowing me to take your child to this movie! I hope it’s something they carry with them always!

Guided Reading Folders :

Reading folders will only come home if your child needs to finish an activity or needs to read a chapter not finished in class during November and December. We are beginning our Literature Circles. Students selected their new books yesterday...all books have a Christmas or winter theme.

Accelerated Reader: We are doing 3 points a month for our AR reading goal. Everyone will meet this goal with the books we have read at school.

Book It Reading Logs for November are due. December Reading Logs were sent home Wednesday. Read each night for 20 minutes.

Writing:

Opinion Writing, Book Reviews

Math:

Beginning strategies for multiplication

Repeated Addition, Counting by 2, 3, 4, 5, 10

Math facts practice

Science:

Create your own model of a Native American home.

This went very well and student projects were super neat! It took creative thought, planning, trial and error, resilience, teamwork and stamina. We will definitely create more opportunities to show and build these stills in the future.

Social Studies:

Reading a Map

Native American Tribes

Lewis & Clark...Sacajawea -Exploring the West!