Miss Tosti Grade 3 Room 6
Welcome to 3rd Grade!
Contact Information: KTosti@sfaschool.com
Welcome to Grade 3 Room 6
Reminders:
- 8 am mass will be Wednesday, February 29th. Please be here by 7:45.
- We are beginning our review for the Terra Nova Test that will be in March.
- If you have not returned your Progress Report, please do so this week.
- We are also starting to write everything in cursive, please be sure to check your child's work at home!
Some useful websites for your brochures are:
http://www.census.gov/schools/facts/
http://www.kids.gov/k_5/k_5_states.shtml
http://www.kidrex.org/ (this is a "kid safe" search engine!)
Homework 2/23
Reading: study for test
read for 15 minutes
Spelling: study for test
Math: FIM
- review 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 times tables AND DIVISION. Try to say them in under 45 seconds!
** Practice times table here! http://www.mrnussbaum.com/speedmath/index.html
Science: review the water cycle (know how to explain the steps of the water cycle using the words evaporation, condensation and precipitation)
Test Schedule
Reading- "Gertrude Ederle" test Friday
Spelling - suffix test Friday
Science - Water cycle test Friday
Religion -
http://www.sadlierreligion.com/webelieve/
A Look into the coming week:
Reading
Story - "Gertrude Ederle"
Target Skill - Fact and Opinion
Spelling Pattern - suffixes (-er, -or, -ess, -ist)
Grammar - contractions
Math
Fractions- comparing and equivalent
reviewing mulptplication and division facts
Religion
Finish Chapter 12
Science
Water Cycle - Evaporation, Condenstation, Precipitation, runoff
Benchmark 3 Writing Rubric
5 = 100%
well focused, clear ideas, use of transition words, engaging, varied sentences, good word choice
4 = 92%
focused ideas, mostly clear, some transitions, fairly engaging, most sentences are complete and varied
3 = 86%
genreally focused, somewhat clear, few transitions, some sentences are complete
2 = 78%
strays from topic, not detailed, somewhat organized, incomplete sentences