Placido’s PostMarch 13, 2014

What’s New in Third Grade?Attendance Competition!

We have started an attendance competition! Every two weeks, any class that has great attendance will receive a

special popcorn party! Please try to be sure your student is here and on time each day! This is even more important since we are making up a lot of time with all of our snow

days this year!

Upcoming Dates

3/21 – End of 3rd 9 Weeks Grading Period3/24-3/28 – Book Fair3/25 – Literacy Night3/27- Jump Rope for Heart3/31-4/4 – Spring Break!4/10 – Report Cards Home4/14 – Rescheduled Author’s Visit

What We’re Learning

Reading – Finding the theme in a text. Unit 4 Test on Wednesday!Social Studies– Regions of the United StatesWord Work – Words with the “h brothers” (ch, ph, wh, th, sh)Writing – Revising and Editing our Nonfiction BooksMath – Using the distributive property of multiplication to find the area of a shape.Notes

We are still collecting boxtops! Help us win next 9 weeks boxtop competition by sending them in with your

student! These go a long way in buying extra books and supplies for our classroom!