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Learning This Month

Phonics/Spelling
Fry Sight Words- Read and Spell 100-300 Sight Words.
Assess Spelling Abilities

Grammar
Demonstrate familiarity of the conventions of
standard English grammar and usage.

Reading Strategies Writing
Choose Reading Material Write Routinely
Read Routinely Build Stamina
Build Stamina Assess Writing Abilities
Assess Reading Abilities

Health Math
Social/Emotional Health Numeration
Place Value
Science Assess Problem Solving
Caves

Social Studies
Communities
Landforms
Readers Corner
How to Help at Home


Mathematicians Corner
How to Help at Home

Students are learning to read and write numbers
with three, four, five, and six digits. They are learning
to compare and order numbers. To do this, students
have to understand the concept of place value
that the value of a digit depends on its place in the
number. For example, in the number 7,349, the digit
3 is in the hundreds place. Its value is 300. Ask your
child to name the place and tell you the value of
the other digits in this number. Explore the value of
digits in other numbers.

New Math Vocabulary
Digits Expanded form Ordinal number
Place value Word form Compare
Standard form Period Order



monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday
1
Labor
Day
Holiday
2 3 4 5

8 9 10

11
Patriot
Day
12
15

16 17 18 19
22 23 24 25
Early
Release
11:15
26
No School:
Teacher
Workday
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Box Tops
Oct. 17.

Constitution and Citizenship Week


The Patriotic Post
Mrs. Muoz, 3
rd
Grade
September 2013
2

Are you a Bucket Filler?

Each of us has an invisible bucket.
It is constantly emptied or filled,
depending on what others say or
do to us.

Each of us also has an invisible
dipper. When we use that dipper to
fill other peoples buckets by saying or doing things to
increase their positive emotions we also fill our own
bucket.

A full bucket gives us a positive outlook and renewed
energy. Every drop in that bucket makes us stronger and
more optimistic.

But when we use that dipper to dip from others buckets
by saying or doing things that decrease their positive
emotions we diminish ourselves.

An empty bucket poisons our outlook, saps our energy, and
undermines our will. Thats why every time someone dips
from our bucket, it hurts us.

So we face a choice every moment of every day: We can
fill one anothers buckets, or we can dip from them. Its an
important choice one that profoundly influences our
relationships, productivity, health and happiness.























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Watch Us Learn!





CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.7
Conduct short research
projects that build
knowledge about a topic.


CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.1
Engage effectively in a
range of collaborative
discussions (one-on-one, in
groups, and teacher-led)
with diverse partners
on grade 3 topics and
texts, building on others'
ideas and expressing their
own clearly.


CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.7
Use information gained
from illustrations (e.g.,
maps, photographs) and
the words in a text to
demonstrate
understanding of the text.


CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2
Write informative and
explanatory texts to
examine a topic and
convey ideas and
information clearly.

3HE4c
Demonstrate ways to
show respect for self and
the uniqueness of
others.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.4
Read with sufficient
accuracy and fluency to
support comprehension.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.10
By the end of the year,
read and comprehend
informational texts,
including history/social
studies, science, and
technical texts, at the high
end of the grades 2-3 text
complexity band
independently and
proficiently.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.4.A
Read grade-level text with
purpose and
understanding.