Monday, September 23, 2013

Pyburn News 9-23-13

EARLY RELEASE ON FRIDAY 1:15

Daily 5 Literacy/Writing: We will continue to work with questions. We will learn about the different types of questions we can ask—Right there in the book questions or think and search questions. We will also work on using our nonfiction text features-- photograph, caption, heading, subheading, sidebar, map, graph, bold face words, etc.
We are going to be finishing our first writing piece (personal narrative) this week. Some students are having a difficult time with using capital letters and punctuation correctly! I think we just forgot over the summer J I know you only have reading and math homework each night as of right now, but please have your student practice writing too. They can write you a few sentences about their day, favorite book, favorite movie, or anything at all. Also when they have a written assignment to go along with their reading in the near future, please be sure they are using complete sentences.  

Math: We worked last week and part of this week on rounding to the nearest ten or the nearest hundred. This is a very abstract and difficult concept for our third graders, so any extra practice at home would be great. We even spent 3 extra days on this and we will be having an assessment on it tomorrow. We will be starting our next unit on Wednesday. This unit is focus on Geometry- quadrilaterals, parallel lines, perpendicular lines, line segments, parallelograms, rectangles, squares, and rhombuses.

Important Reminders:
9/23-10/11 is Dragon Fire Time
Friday 9/27 Field trip money is due ($8.00) and it is Early Release (1:15)
Monday 9/30 Interims go home and we have our in class High Tech High ouch field trip (1-2:30)
10/4 Scholastic orders due
10/18 Early Release
10/28 Teacher Workday  

Scholastic-  code is LD7T9. Please have all orders in by the end of next week (10/4) so I can mail them out

Class/teacher Wish List
-clipboards
-pillows to sit on during independent reading
-prize box items!!!!! (small toys, erasers, pencils, bookmarks, stickers, games, puzzles)
-books for our class library!!!! All levels and genres will be welcomed
-playground equipment (jump ropes, chalk)

Thank you!
Ms. Pyburn

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