Welcome to Mrs. Sloan's

Third Grade Classroom

Announcements

We are very busy in Third Grade learning many new things! We have researched saints and have each reported on a saint special to us in Religion. In Math we conducted surveys of the entire school, used tally charts, made bar graphs and then analyzed our data. In Science we have done some hands on learning about plants and in Social Studies we are learning about different cultures. We are also learning about main ideas and details, word origins and tons of vocabulary in Reading. We are looking forward to multiplication and cursive handwriting soon!

Third graders are becoming responsible and independant, just ask us how!

Reading Lists (please click)

Supply List (please click)

Homework

Third graders will have homework every night, Monday through Thursday. Homework is meant to be a review or extra practice of the day's school work. Each student should be able to complete their homework independently and in 40 minutes or less. If you find that your child is having difficulties please write me a note and attach it to the homework, chances are if your child is having a hard time, others are too, and I will then go over the material again in class. All assignments will be written in planners by your child, to be brought home each night. Planners are a great way to study spelling words each night, and to become organized students. I will not be posting nightly homework here, this will be where I post long term projects. If you have any concerns about homework please send me an email or note.

Scholastic Book Club

To order online from Scholastic Book Clubs just click on this link: www.scholastic.com/parentordering

Once you are there you will set up your own user name and password.

You may also send paper orders into school with payment.

We will order from Scholastic monthly, I will send home flyers and deadline information in our weekly newsletters.

Favorite Web Links

Here are some great websites to visit:

I've just added these 2 math sites, to help us with our math facts:

To practice addition and subtraction facts go to www.coolmath4kids.com and play some really fun games.

To print out worksheets to practice your math facts go to www.superkids.com and go to educational tools and then math worksheets, print them out and practice.

For third graders past and incoming the Scholastic website has lots of fun games based on interesting books go to http://www.scholastic.com/kids/stacks/games/

For those that like an adventure visit The Magic Tree house site and interact with some of your favorite stories. http://randomhouse.com/kids/magictreehouse/

For cool Science and Social Studies games and activities visit National Geographic for Kids at http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

Keeping you updated

I will post weekly newsletters and important papers for you below, just click on the newspaper link at the

bottom of this page.

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