October 31-November 4

Curriculum October 31-November 4
I hope that everyone had a relaxing and enjoyable weekend. 
We will be collecting Halloween candy to send to the troops along with letters of gratitude and beanie babies.  If there is any extra Halloween candy, please send it in with your child. Thank you in advance for your support.

enVision Math
Monday, we will be using pumpkins to estimate and practice analyzing data.  The rest of the focus of the week will be: The Distributive Property, 3 as a factor, 4 as a factor, and 6 and 7 as factors.

Rigby Reading
We will continue the last week of Theme 5 "Times Have Changed" in Rigby. The comprehension strategies we will continue to focus on are monitor understanding and reviewing synthesizing.

Spelling
The Rigby Spelling list will focus on silent consonants.  The Rigby list words are found, laugh, sleep, something, avoid, choice, destroy, oyster, royal, and turquoise.

The extension list focus is co, com (together). The extension words are coexist, cohesive, coincidence, combine, commiserate, committee, communication, community, compare, and compatible.

Science
We will begin a unit on weather learning about types of weather and weather patterns.

Social Studies
We will begin a unit on the government learning about the different branches and roles of government leaders.

Writing
We will continue our focus on descriptive writing this week.  The students will use personification to bring inanimate things to life.

Have a wonderful week!

October 24-28

Curriculum October 24-28
It has been a pleasure meeting with each of you about your child's progress. I really enjoy how each of you are so involved in your child's education.  Without your partnership, success would not happen.
A special thank to Lisa VanInwegen who has planned our Halloween party on Friday, October 28. Also, thank to each of you for volunteering to send in the necessary supplies to enable the party to be a success.

On Wednesday, October 26, the third grade will have their Tourism Day. You are welcome to attend.  It will run from 1:00-3:30.  You can stop by and see how your child has become "An Expert" on their state.

Last Monday, Colli Lawyer began student teaching in our classroom. Many of you probably have met her before. She previously was a para at Prairie Ridge and has worked with many of your children.  She will be with us through December.

enVision Math
We will complete Topic Five this week.  On Monday, the students will use problem solving to begin designing their own video game.  Tuesday, we will complete 5-7 (Two Question Problem-Solving). Wednesday will be the test review, Thursday will be the Topic Five test, and Friday we will work more on our video games.

Rigby Reading
We will continue Theme 5 "Times Have Changed" in Rigby. The comprehension strategies we will continue to focus on are monitor understanding and reviewing synthesizing.

Spelling
The Rigby Spelling list will focus on the ou, ow, oy, and oi patterns.  The Rigby list is first, fish, live, pick, pouch, allow, ounce, growl, proud, and mountain.
The extension list focus is quad (four). The extension words are quadrangle, quadrant, quadrennial, quadriceps, quadrilateral, quadrilingual, quadrisect, quadruped, quadruple, and quadruplet.

Science
Please remember that the Blazing Insulated House project is due Monday, October 24.

Social Studies
We will continue our geography unit where the students have began doing research on an assigned state.  The culminating Tourism Day is on Wednesday from 12:30-3:30.

Writing
We will continue our focus on descriptive writing this week.  The students will complete their monster writing and begin working on a hands-on comparison/contrast descriptive piece.

Have a wonderful week!

October 17-21

Curriculum October 17-21
I am looking forward to seeing each of you are parent teacher conferences on Wednesday and Thursday. A sheet about your child's strengths and weaknesses will be coming home in your Monday folder. Please fill it out and bring it to your conference. 

enVision Math
We will continue to work on Multiplication this week. Last week, we learned our 2's, 5's, and 9's. This week we will be multiplying by 0 and 1, analyzing patterns for facts, and looking at 10 as a factor.

Rigby Reading
We will begin Theme 5 "Times Have Changed" in Rigby. The comprehension strategies focused on will be monitor understanding and reviewing synthesizing.
Spelling
Due to the short week, there is NO Spelling this week.

Science
Please remember that the Blazing Insulated House project is due Monday, October 24.

Social Studies
We will continue our geography unit where the students have began doing research on an assigned state.  The culminating Tourism Day has been changed to October 26.
Writing
We will continue our focus on descriptive writing this week.  The students will begin a Monster Writing Project with a school in Ohio.  The students will draw a monster, then write a detailed description about the monster.  The writing will be exchanged where the students will have to draw a monster based on their partner's descriptive writing piece. 

Have a wonderful week!

Synthesis Storybirds

The students continued to work on sythesizing within their creative writing. They created their own stories and then synthesized at the end.

The Apple Princess. on Storybird
By: Libby

Synthesis Story"Haunted House" on Storybird
By: Alexa

Synthesis Story"The Scared Knight's Return" on Storybird
By: Ben

Synthesize Story"A Halloween Night" on Storybird
By: Amanda

The Great Dragon on Storybird
By: Lake


The Beaver's Popcorn on Storybird
By: Adam

Synthesis Story"The Hungry Pirate" on Storybird
By: Jake

Synthesis Story"Skater Dude" on Storybird
By: Jackson

The Dog and the CatSynthesis Story on Storybird
By: Abigail

Creepy Cooties Around the World on Storybird
By: Sabrina

A Synthesize StoryA Weird Day. on Storybird
By: Dutch

SYNTHESIZE STORY. on Storybird
By: Nick

Synthesize Story"Crazy Blob" on Storybird
By: Kenzie

synthesizeChristmas day. on Storybird
By: Ava

Synthesis -The weirdest dream ever. on Storybird
By: Josie

Sad Elephant on Storybird
By: John

''Pandas Synthesize Story" on Storybird
By: Dace

Synthesizing Story ''Sneaky Shark'' on Storybird
By: Brady

Animal Point of Views

The kids worked on voice and point of view by putting themselves in the mind of one of the animals in the room.


By: Brady


By: Dace


By: Adam


By: Amanda


By: Jake


By: Jackson


By: Alexa


By: Ben


By: Nick


By: Sabrina


By: Dutch


By: Lake


By: Kenzie


By: Austyne


By: Ava


By: Josie


By: Abby


By: John


By: Libby


By: Ellie


By: Emily

LIbby MVP

Libby is a great friend! She is so funny, pretty, smart, and AWESOME!!! She also loves brownies and cookies! We are so glad that she is MVP. We got to make a creative poster for a creative person!  We think she is a wonderful person and a great person to be around. She also likes KU. Go KU!!!

By Team Leggett Publicists Alexa and Dace

October 10-14

Curriculum October 10-14
Have a wonderful weekend! Enjoy this beautiful weather, once again! Hopefully the rain will hold out.  Please remember that there is no school on Friday.  Parent-teacher conferences are the following week on October 19-20.  If you scheduled a time, you should have already received your conference time confirmation.

enVision Math
We completed Topic 4. We will review Topic 4 on Monday and take the test on Tuesday. The Topic 4 readiness practice test is available for your child to practice.  We will begin Topic 5 on Wednesday.  We will begin the multiplication facts focusing on 2 and 5 on Wednesday and 9 on Thursday.

The timed addition test will be on Wednesday.  In order to receive a plus on the report card, your child needs to score an eighty percent or higher in four minutes.  For subtraction it is five minutes. This will take place on Thursday.

Rigby Reading
We will continue with synthesizing and inferring this week.  This week, the kids completed synthesizing posters for Hispanic Heritage Month and created a synthesizing art project retelling Electrified that we read in our Rigby books.
Grammar- The focus will continue to be on capitalization and punctuation.

Spelling
The Rigby words this week are bus, can't, eat, feet, owner, delight, flown, moan, oath, and brief.
The extension list focus is tri-three.
The words are triangle, triathlon, triceratops, tricycle, trilateral, trilingual, trilogy, trio, tripod, and trisect.

Science
Please remember that the Blazing Insulated House project is due Monday, October 24.

Social Studies
We began a unit on geography. The kids learned about the continents and oceans.  They also made their own map working on directions.  Beginning Monday, the kids will receive a state and a state packet project.  For the next three weeks, we will be working on a state research project here at school.  The culminating event is a Tourism Day on October 27.

Writing
We will continue to work on descriptive writing this week.  We did mini-lessons on word pictures and showing vs. telling.  There will now be a stronger focus on voice using figurative language.  The kids will write from the point of view of one of the living organisms in class to work on voice.  Then, we will take our writing and turn use it for a technology project.

Have a wonderful week!

Hispanic Heritage Synthesis Posters

For Hispanic Heritage Month, the kids researched a Hispanic individual and created a poster on Glogster. From their research, they synthesized a new idea about the individual to go along with what we were working on in reading.


By: Adam


By: Abigail


By: Alexa


By: Austyne


By: Amanda


By: Ava


By: Ben


By: Brady


By: Dace


By: Dutch


By: Emily


By: Jackson


By: Jake


By: John


By: Josie


By: Kenzie


By: Lake


By: Libby


By: Nick


By: Sabrina

Josie MVP!!!

Josie is very nice and helpful. She loves to read books and is very dependable. Josie is very pretty and never lets you down. She is a good artist and a wonderful student. The best thing about her is that she is a caring person. Josie is a SUPERSTAR friend!

By Team Leggett Publicists: Kenzie & Ava