Brown's Blog

August 2011

Thank you all for a wonderful first week. I appreciate everyone coming for Open House and your eagerness to assist when needed. Your children have worked hard their first week learning the rules and completing all I have asked of them. I do hope everyone is getting some much needed rest this weekend. Monday we will be off to another busy week. We will begin Sort 2 in Spelling. Please know you can access Spelling City through the Web Link Notebook on GM's homepage. Go to 3rd grade and click on SpellingCity_3rd. All of the sorts have been loaded. Feel free to use this as optional practice. In math we will be taking daily addition timed tests ( Visit First in Math and get those flash cards!!) and reviewing place value. Our writing focus will be descriptive/narrative. I am going to begin with the Social Studies Unit on Greece and then move onto Science and cover Rocks and Minerals.We will be going to the Media Center on Tuesday morning for Orientation. The students will also be taking the STAR test to get their AR levels. We get to visit the Computer Lab that day as well.Homework packets will be coming home on Monday and my Weekly Reports will begin coming home Friday the 26th. As always if you have any questions feel free to send me an e-mail. Here's to another great week!Mrs. Brown

Essential Questions for the first 9 weeks.

Essential Questions for the first 9 weeks: How do I become a great reader? How do I write to describe? How do I write a personal narrative? What is the relationship between a digits position and it's value? What is the relationship between addition and subtraction? How can I determine the amount of time that passes between 2 events? How is multiplication related to repeated addition and arrays? What are the similarities and differences between rocks and minerals? What role has Ancient Greece had in shaping how the United States is today?