Oct. 6, 2008
Third Grade Weekly Newsletter
Dear Parents and Students,
Please be reminded that this week Thursday and Friday there is NO SCHOOL for students.
Don't forget to show some school spirit on Spirit Wear Day this Monday the 6th.
We will have an All School Mass on Tuesday. As always we welcome your presence with us! We sit on the right side when you face the altar, next to the choir.
Curriculum Highlights for the week;
Reading/Language Arts- Read article, "Champions of the World". Skills; making predictions, compound words, prefixes, use a search engine. Writing-Journaling Grammar-Run on sentences. Reading Unit #1 Test and Listening Test #2 this week.
Spelling- No list words for this short week! Spelling Unit word recognition test this week. Words for the previous week follow this week's word list.
Religion-Prayer Unit. Ch. 26-Praying the Hail Mary and the Rosary. Fr. Nathan will visit the classroom this week too!
Math-Ch 3-Money;counting coins and bills, problem solving-making change. Timed test #4.
Science-Life Science Unit. Food Pyramid, foods of the Bible
Social Studies-Ch 2;Communities and Geography-natural resources and preservation
Art- No class due to short week
Bonus:JOKE OF THE WEEK. 
Earn an extra credit point by reading this newsletter and trying to answer the following joke/riddle; Email or write your answer to me for Monday.
Here is the answer to last week's riddle;What kind of music do rabbits like? Hip Hop!
This week's riddle/joke;A Halloween riddle-What do ghosts serve for dessert?
Have a Great Week!
Mrs. Parks
Spelling words for week of Sept. 29th
1. music
2. broom
3. soup
4. fruit
5. huge
6. drew
7. truth
8. pool
9. goose
10. excuse
11. dew
12. juice
13. crew
14. group
15. produce
16. ceiling
17. eager
18. including
19. scene
20. section
words in orange are vocabulary words
