Homework 11/25

Reading: 
NO RRJ this week!
Fried Worms due Tuesday 11/26 (finish the book) 4 important thoughts

Writing: Write for 5-10 minutes 

Math: problems 1-7 

Other: 
Dress warm tomorrow!
No school Wednesday-Friday! 

Homework 11/22

Reading: 
If you are in Fried Worms (finish book by  Tuesday 11/26 with 4 important thoughts)

Math: None

Writing: None

Other: Chili Cook-Off Tonight! Come support your favorite teacher or parent! :) 

Homework 11/21

Reading: 
Read for 10-15 minutes 

Book Club: 

How to Eat Fried Worms (4 important thoughts) Finish book by Tuesday 11/26 

Hit Away Kid (4 Think Marks) Finish by Monday 


Writing: 
Write for 5-10 minutes 


Math: Clock worksheet


Other: Scholastic book orders due tomorrow

Homework 11/20

Reading: 
RRJ due:

Book Club: 
The Hundred Dresses (4 Think Mark Post-it Notes) Chapters 4-7 by Thursday 11/21

How to Eat Fried Worms ( 4 important thoughts ) Chapter 11-22 by 11/21

Hit Away Kid (4 Think Mark Post-it Notes) Finish book by Monday 11/25 

Callie read Chapter 5 by tomorrow 

Writing: Write for 5-10 minutes 


Math: Numbers 1-4 

Publishing Party

We have been working so hard on our personal narratives. We finally finished them! We decided it would be a great idea to celebrate our writing with a publishing party! Students took turns reading their pieces to partners and to the whole group! We had a blast! Here's a look at all of our fun! 

                                    

Personal narratives are graded. Students received an email from Miss Gardner letting them know their grade, and some feedback. They all turned out great! 

Pet Party

This year we have been working hard to fill our bean jar. Every time we get a compliment from another teacher Miss Gardner fills it with a scoop of beans. We finally filled it a couple of weeks ago.  Our class sat down and had a vote on how we would like to celebrate. The vote was almost unanimous. We decided to have a Pet Party.  It fit in perfectly with our science curriculum because we had just finished learning about vertebrates.  

                                  

We decided it would be a great idea to invite the other third grade classes to see all of the animals. We had a blast. Miss Gardner's dad brought in two chinchillas and two snakes! We even got to hold them! 

Homework 11/19

Reading: 
RRJ due: 

Book Club: 
The Hundred Dresses (4 Think Mark Post-it Notes) Chapters 4-6 by Thursday 11/21
How to Eat Fried Worms ( 4 important thoughts ) Chapter 11-22 by 11/21
Hit Away Kid (4 Think Mark Post-it Notes) Chapters 1-4 by 11/20 

Writing: Write 5-10 minutes 

Math: Problems 1-9 

Other: Tomorrow is our Blue Ribbon Assembly. Please make sure that you are wearing something that you can easily put a t-shirt over. 

Book orders for November are due by Friday. 

This Week in Third Grade 11/18

Reading:  In reading we will be focusing on reading nonfiction text. By the end of the week students will monitor themselves by stopping and thinking about the information they have just read. They will begin to organize the information while they are reading.

Writing:  We will begin writing expository text this week! Students are going to be looking at different mentor texts to see how authors use text features and various structures to entertain and inform their readers.

Math: We finished our unit on money, and we are starting to learn about time! On Friday we talked about telling time to the nearest minute, and we will continue this throughout the week. We will even learn how to calculate elapsed time later this week!

Science: We just finished talking about the different ways scientist classify animals by their characteristics and behaviors. This week we will focus on how some of those characteristics and behaviors are actually inherited from their parents, where others are learned or acquired.

Social Studies: This week will end our conversations on local government, and begin to focus on state government.

Other:
Inflatables will be at Sappington through Tuesday.

On Wednesday, we will have an assembly to celebrate our Blue Ribbon Award. Students will be given a t-shirt Wednesday morning to wear to the assembly. Please make sure that your child is wearing something where it will be easy to slip a t-shirt over, or change very quickly. 

Friday is Sappington's 2nd Annual Warm Up the Night! The chili tasting will begin at 5:30 PM. Make sure you come out and watch the teachers take on SPTG in the volleyball game that starts at 6:30 PM.

Homework 11/18

Reading: 
Book Club: 
The Hundred Dresses (4 Think Mark Post-it Notes) Chapters 1-3 by tomorrow
How to Eat Fried Worms ( 4 important thoughts ) Chapter 11-22 by 11/21

RRJ due:

Writing: Write for 5-10 minutes

Math: do circled problems

Other: This weekend  is the chili cook off. Come root for your favorite teachers (or your parent)!

Homework 11/14

Reading: 
Read for 10-15 minutes
Fried Worms: Chapters 1-10 with 4 important thoughts by tomorrow
Hit Away Kid: Chapters 1-4 with 4 post- it notes by November 20
Hundred Dresses: Chapters 1-3 with 4 post-it notes by November 19

Writing: 
Write for 5-10 minutes

Science Projects

In science we have been learning about the different ways scientists classify animals. One thing scientists look at is whether or not an animal has a backbone. Animals that have a backbone are called vertebrates. Scientists can classify vertebrates to even small groups based on their traits. Here are some things we learned:

Homework 11/13

Reading: 
Read for 10- 15 minutes 
RRJ due: 

Things Will Never Be The Same: Finish book by tomorrow. Use 3 post-its 

How to Eat Fried Worms: Chapters 1-10 with 4 important thoughts due Friday

Writing: Write for 5-10 minutes 
have a topic to write about for tomorrow 

Math: Write down the exact time that you ate dinner on a piece of paper. 

Other: Enjoy your early release day! :) 
- Writing party tomorrow
- Pet party on Friday! 

Homework 11/12

Reading: 
Read 10-15 minutes
RRJ due:

Writing: 
write 5-10 minutes
finish publishing your writing

Math: Math test tomorrow! Make sure you study!

Other: Early release day tomorrow!

This Week in Third Grade 11/11

Reading: We will begin focusing on nonfiction. This week we will specifically be looking at text features and how we use them to help us read.
Writing: We are finishing up our published pieces. We will have a publishing party on Thursday. Students will read their writing to one another and celebrate all of our hard work and effort.

Math: We are finishing up our money unit this week. We will have our test on Wednesday. We will begin our time unit on Friday

Science: We are going to continue to focus on the difference between vertebrates and invertebrates. Students presented their vertebrate projects this week. Be on the look out for the video soon!

Social Studies: The students did a fantastic job on their rights and responsibilities social studies tests! We are beginning our unit on government this week!

Other: 
WE HAVE AN EARLY RELEASE DAY THIS WEDNESDAY! PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR STUDENT KNOWS HOW THEY WILL BE GETTING HOME! 

It wouldn't be Saint Louis without funky weather. We are going to see dramatic temperature changes throughout the week. Please make sure that your student comes to school dressed for the appropriate weather. The weather change means cold and flu season is approaching

Homework 11/11

Reading: 
10-15 minutes
Turkey RRJ due: 

How to Eat Fried Worms (Chapter 1-10) with 4 important thoughts
Things Will Never be the Same (Finish book) with 4 sticky notes by Thursday

Writing:
Write for 5-10 minutes 
Try to finish publishing your personal narrative if you have not. 
Be thinking about what you want to write for your expository text

Math: 
Numbers 1-10 on your Study Guide 
Finish as much as you can beyond that 

Other: 
Early Dismissal on Wednesday at 1:40
Wear a coat to school tomorrow

Homework 11/8

There are no Friday folders!! 

Reading: 
No homework. 
Next week is a Red Week for RRJ. 

Math: 
Circled Problems

Writing: 
No homework

Other: 
WEAR RED, WHITE, AND BLUE ON MONDAY. MAKE SURE YOU WEAR SOMETHING WITH POCKETS. 

Reading: 
No RRJ

Cam Jansen Snow Day Mystery:  Finish book (2 post-its) by Friday 

Frindle: Finish book (5 post-its) by Friday

Things Will Never Be the Same: Finish book (3 Post-its) by Friday 

George and Martha (3 post-its) by tomorrow

Nate and Zack (2 post-its) by tommorrow

Writing: tomorrow is the last day to polish your personal narrative 

Math: 6.2 circled problem 

Science: Vertebrate project

Social Studies: Test Friday 

Food Art

Today we were pleased to welcome Executive Chef Ralph Garcia from Chartwells. Chef Ralph talked to us about the importance of eating fruits, and that with a little imagination it can be a real blast!

 Students were given a variety of fruits, and for the first time ever, we were allowed to play with our food to make artwork!

Check some out some of our very own Food Art!

The best part was, we were allowed to eat it afterwards!

Oh, and Chef Ralph wanted to make sure knew the correct way to peel a banana! From the bottom side of course! 

Homework 11/6

Reading: 
No RRJ

Cam Jansen Snow Day Mystery:  Finish book (2 post-its) by Friday 

Frindle: Finish book (5 post-its) by Friday

Things Will Never Be the Same: Finish book (3 Post-its) by Friday 

George and Martha (3 post-its) by Friday

Nate and Zack (2 post-its) by Friday 

Writing: tomorrow is the last day to polish your personal narrative 

Math: 6.2 circled problem 

Science: Invertebrate project

Social Studies: Test Friday 

RAM'S Service Learning!

On Tuesday, some RAMS employees came to Sappington and asked us to help them with a project. We made around one hundred holiday cards for our military oversees!

The RAMS employees were understanding and very encouraging! They loved getting to know us while we worked.

As we were finishing, we had a couple surprise guests come in... Rampage and offensive guard Barrett Jones! In the words of Mr. Hamby it was "AWEEEEESSSOOOMMEE!!"

Homework 11/5

Reading: 
Read for 10-15 minutes
NO Reading Response Journals this week! 

Cam Jansen Snow Day Mystery:  Chapter 5-6 (2 post-its) by Friday 

Frindle: Finish book (5 post-its) by Friday

Things Will Never Be the Same: Chapter 6-8 (3 Post-its) by Thursday

Writing:  
Write for 5-10 minutes.
Work on editing your piece. We will polish them tomorrow.

Math: 
Do the circled problems. Remember that equivalent sets means to write another way to make that amount.

Social Studies:  Test on Friday 

A SPOOKtacular Halloween!

Despite the dreary weather, we had a great Halloween! We worked together with partners to create fun Halloween poems using adjectives, nouns, and verbs. They turned out fantastic! 

It was clear that the parade was going to be the highlight of our day! Everyone was so excited. After getting ready we grouped together to take a class picture. Then we were ready to roam the hallways for some parade fun! 

After the parade we came back to our room for our Halloween party put together by our lovely room parents! 

We had a blast coloring our trick-or treat bags and estimating how many pieces of candy were in the container! We saw just how great of character we had here at Sappington when the student who won the contest shared his candy with the whole class! How awesome is that??

We are looking forward to our next celebration! 

This Week in Third Grade 11/4

Thank you to those of you who came to parent teacher conferences! I am so glad that I have a group of parents who are so supportive of their students.

Thank you to those of you who helped out with our Halloween parade and party! I hope that everyone was able to enjoy their evening despite the weather.

Reading: There will be no reading response journals due this week. Students will have assigned reading homework for their book clubs that they are participating in. Check in with your student to make sure that they are completing their assigned reading.

Writing: We are finishing up our personal narrative pieces. We will begin writing informational pieces next week!

Math: This week we will be learning about money! Beginning Monday we will be focusing on counting money. This would be a great week to have your student count the coins in a change jar or piggy bank.

Social Studies: We will continue to learn about the rights and responsibilities we have as citizens. We will have a test later this week.

Science: We will begin learning about living things this week. Specifically focusing in on classifying animals.

Other: 

THIS WEEK IS BAKED GOOD POTTERY WEEK! Stop by Baked Goods Pottery and paint something fun!

Tuesday is a Rams Spirit Day. We will be having visitors come in to do a service learning project with our 3rd- 5th graders!

Our student of the week chose to have a "Stuffed Animal Day" on Tuesday. 

SPTG will have a meeting on Tuesday in our school library at 6:45PM. Mr. Triplett and Dr. McKenney will be there to discuss enrollment growth.

On Wednesday we will have a Food Art Chef come in to work with us. Please continue to send back media release permission slips.

On Thursday we will have school store.

Homework 11/4

Reading: 
NO Reading Response Journals this week! 

Cam Jansen Snow Day Mystery:  Chapter 5-6 (2 post-its) by tomorrow

Frindle: Chapter 13 with (3 post-its) by tomorrow

Cam Jansen Dinosaur: Chapter 1-2 (2 post its) by tomorrow

Things Will Never Be the Same: Chapter 6-8 (3 Post-its) by Thursday

Writing: 
Write for 5-10 minutes

Math: 
ONLY do the highlighted directions for numbers 1-3 on the front and 1-2 on the back. 

Social Studies: None 

Science: None

Other: Rams Spirit Day tomorrow! 
Bring a stuffed animal to school tomorrow! 
Ask your parents to check their email