Over the next two weeks, my Reading class will be reading Rocks in His Head, and America’s Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle. Students will also continue reading their chapter books in a small group. Our students did an amazing job on our book reports and the Digital Day Activities. These activities can be found on our blog: http://blog.elanco.org/nhgrade3/  In writing, we finished our final copies of our persuasive essays and we will continue to practice effective writing strategies.

In Social Studies, we will continue learning about the many aspects of economics and use a variety of activities and resources to further our understanding. Our next unit will be weather. Also, AJ Wessel will be sharing what he has learned on his trip to China!

Math: We will continue working on Fractions and our Multiplication and Division Fact Fluency.

Dress your Best Day is Friday, March 27th 🙂

Announcements:

Great job to our Language Arts class who participated in Digital Day Activities! Here is a link to the Edublog of our activities: http://blog.elanco.org/nhgrade3/ . Also, great job completing your first book report projects and presenting them to the class. I really enjoyed seeing all of our creative projects.

3/19/15-ELANCO District Wide Family Game Night at GSGH from 6:00-8:00.

3/20/15-Breakfast and Books Club at 8:00.

Language Arts: We will start Unit 4 Week 2 and have our tests on Friday, March 20th. We will also finish our penpal letters.

Content: We will continue to study Economics. AJ will present a project on his trip to China!

Math: We will continue practicing Unit 5: Fractions.

Over the next two weeks, my Reading class will be reading The Man Who Invented Basketball, and Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest. Students will also get to present their book report projects to a small group. In writing, we will finish our final copies of our persuasive essays. On Friday, March 13^th, Mrs. Hilt will be coming to our class to assist us with technology activities for National Digital Learning Day.

In Social Studies, we will continue learning about the many aspects of economics and using a variety of activities and resources to further our understanding. Our next unit will be weather.

What’s Happening Next?

• 3/20/15 Breakfast and Books Club – meet at 8:00am
• 3/25/15 End of the 3^rd Marking Period
• 3/26/15 Mr. Lambert’s Last Day Teaching
• 3/26/15 Mrs. Gaffney’s First Day
• 4/14/15 Language Arts PSSA testing
• 4/15/15 Language Arts PSSA testing
• 4/16/15 Language Arts PSSA testing
• 4/17/15 Language Arts PSSA testing

Language Arts: We will be starting Unit 4 this week. Our Book Report Projects are due this Friday March 6th.

Content: We will be working on Dental Health Posters and starting Economics.

Math: We will be taking our Unit 5 pretest and practicing our skills in Unit 5 this week. Unit 5 focuses on fractions as numbers on the number line.