Our story this week, Angel Child, Dragon Child, tells of the challenges a little Vietnamese girl faces when she moves to America. Her life is changed by the acts of friendship she receives from the people around her. Summarizing and visualizing are two important skills for good readers. Ask your third grader to summarize a TV show or movie you have watched together. Model summarizing for them by reporting how you spent that day. Putting important ideas into a few choice words is a terrific skill to have. This week, remember to spend some time helping your third grader review the vocabulary that will be on their reading test on Friday. The definitions came home with this newsletter.

We begin our writing lessons with a poem that compares the past with the present. Your third grader needs to bring in a picture of them at the time they were in kindergarten or first grade by Wednesday.

 HOMEWORK

MONDAY

Math 12B

Reading vocabulary paper

Use science book glossary to write definitions for 11-13 vocabulary words in science notebook

TUESDAY

Math 13B

Spelling paper

Science paper

WEDNESDAY

Math 14B

Spelling paper

THURSDAY

Review spelling for test

Review vocabulary for test

Math 15B

MATH       

We will work with fractions, counting money, and learning to add in our heads. For a clear explanation of how to do mental math, come the Parent Coffee Monday night.

We have had a lot of fun breaking open seeds and flowers to see how they are made. This week, we take a closer look at conifers.

Our parent coffee is Monday, August 30^th, 6:30 p.m. here in our classroom. We will be covering field trips and other events for the year, classroom helpers, and curriculum issues. I look forward to seeing you.

Remember to bring water bottles especially on Mondays and Thursdays for P. E.

VOCABULARY

jangled

twittered

gleamed

scrawled

margins

darted

SPELLING

1. 1.     eighty
2. 2.     playing
3. 3.     acorn
4. 4.     they
5. 5.     safety
6. 6.     mistake

1. 7.     lady
2. 8.     explain
3. 9.     neighbor
4. 10.                         delay
5. 11.                         break
6. 12.                         skateboard
7. 13.                         afraid
8. 14.                         maybe
9. 15.                         forgave
10. 16.                         training
11. 17.                          steak
12. 18.                         weigh
13. 19.                         months
14. 20.                         because

IMPORTANT DATES

Parent Coffee Monday, August 30^th 6:30 p.m.

Picture Day Wed. September 1^st

Football sign-up due Wed. September 1^st

Spelling test and Reading test Friday

In Bible this week, we consider how Jesus lived and grew as a child.  

Spellingcity.com

          We are working to get the spelling words on Spellingcity.com. To access the third grade words, please follow the directions below:

• Go to

www.spellingcity.com

• Select the blue tab at the top of the page, “Find a List”
• Search by “Teacher” and type “CCS” in the “Enter Search Term” box
• Click on “CCS Third Grade” under the “Teacher Name” and the click on “List 1-ACSI’ (or the current list number)