Placido’s Post

1. Placido’s Post March 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! What We’re Learning Upcoming Dates 3/21– End of 3rd 9 Weeks Grading Period 3/24-3/28 – Book Fair 3/25 – Literacy Night 3/27- Jump Rope for Heart 3/31-4/4 – Spring Break! 4/10 – Report Cards Home 4/14 – Rescheduled Author’s Visit Reading – Finding the theme in a text. Unit 4 Test on Wednesday! Social Studies– Regions of the United States Word Work – Words with the “h brothers” (ch, ph, wh, th, sh) Writing – Revising and Editing our Nonfiction Books Math – 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! 