Dear Families

We had a fabulous first full week together and we are looking forward to many more weeks together!!

There will be a D3 Day (Dress Down for 3.00) this Wednesday, September 23.

We will have a Religion Quiz on Thursday as well as a Math Test, Spelling Test, and Vocabulary quiz on Friday. Please take the time to review so as to meet with success in all of these subject areas.

We will be learning to use the digital format known as Flipgrid this week. The children will then be able to post assigned projects through videos. Instructions will be sent home this week after the children have been instructed how to navigate this program.


All classwork and homework is posted daily in Google Classroom. Please make sure to log in each day to check on assignments and to view any class or school announcements. The children will be practicing their log in skills on their Chromebooks this week.

  What's Happening in 3-2 This Week!

Religion
This week we will complete our work on Chapter 1 "God's Call". focusing on the idea of how God calls each of us by name. We will also about the Old Testament story of Ruth and Naomi and how they were called by God. There will be a quiz on Thursday based off of the notes given to the children in their Green Notebooks. Please help your child to prepare for this assessment

Math
We will complete our first chapter in Math by focusing on rounding in the tens and hundreds place, problem solving and reviewing all the concepts from this chapter. There will be a test on Friday pertaining to these topics as well as place value, comparing numbers, and ordering numbers.

Spelling
The children will be assigned the following words this week:
1. step, 2. mess, 3. head, 4. crops, 5. stop, 6. rock, 7. clock, 8. sock, 9. pond, 10. jumps,
11. shut, 12. luck, 13. slump, 14. bugs, 15. mug
There will be spelling test on Friday along with grammar sentences.

Vocabulary
The words for this week are:
1. courage, 2. disappointment, 3. precious, 4. pride, 5. remind, 6. symbols,
7. traditions
Please study these words and their definitions daily. They can be found in their yellow notebooks.

Reading
This week we will be focusing on the Essential Question "What can traditions teach us about cultures" when reading the stories "The Dream Catcher" and "Yoon and the Jade Bracelet" in our readers. A vocabulary quiz and practice reading comprehension assessment will be given on Friday. Please make sure to review with your child their vocabulary words and definitions found in their yellow notebook on a daily basis as well as the story "Yoon and the Jade Bracelet" so that they will meet with success on their assessment.

Grammar
We will work on distinguishing between command and exclamation sentences as well reviewing statement and question sentences.

Science
In our unit about forces and motion, we will be discovering what forces act on an object and observing an objects motion.

Social Studies
We will be learnng about communities in our world.

Have an amazing week!!