January 20th-23rd

Hello Families of Room 2!
Listed below are the important reminders and objectives for our week.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks!

Important Reminders:

• Math test on Wednesday!
• Friday is Ability Awareness Day.  Third grade will be listening to guest speakers and participating in activities during the afternoon.
• Friday is also the 100th day of school!  All of third grade is celebrating by watching 101 Dalmatians and making pancakes!

Weekly Objectives:

Writing:  This week we are going to work on using paragraphs to organize our categories and consider transition words that fit with those categories.  We will also work on choosing powerful words that make our persuasive speeches effective.

Reading: During reading this week, we will continue to work on understanding the theme of a book.  We will then focus on the differences between theme and main idea!

Social Studies:  This week we will continue Chapter 8: Our Government.  We will focus on the three branches of state government and describe what each branch does.

Math:  This week in math, we will continue Chapter 6: Multiplication and Division Patterns.  We will review for our test on Tuesday and on Wednesday, January 21st we will have our Chapter 6 test.

Have a great week!