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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Tutoring

Math Tutoring will be continue until Math TAKS. If you have been attendingon Tuesday's the schedule is as followed:

April 7 3:15-4:15
April 14 3:15-4:15
April 21 3:15-4:15

Thursday's schedule is as followed:

April 9 3:15-4:15 (This may move to Wednesday April 8, I will let you know)
April 16 3:15-4:15
April 23 3:15-4:15

Homework April 6-10, 2009

Work on Sunshine Math throughout the week

Monday: work on Adding coins

Tuesday: Work on Values of coins

Wednesday: Work on Going Fishing (Fractions) and Work on Community: contributions of important people

Thursday: Homework packet is due

Friday: NO SCHOOL

Wednesday: Passover
Friday: Good Friday
Sunday: Easter Sunday

Homework March 30-April 3, 2009

Work on Sunshine Math throughout the week

Monday: Work on Practice 13-4: Comparing Fractions on the Number Line

Tuesday: work on Practice 13-3: Locating Fractions on the Number Line

Wednesday: work on Comparing Fractions

Thursday: weekly reader

Report cards and Reading TAKS results go home on Wednesday

Homework March 23-27, 2009

There is no homeowrk this week.

Thursday, March 26, 2009: Menil Field Trip

Friday, March 27, 2009: Science day. Please remember to bring in your $5

Friday, March 6, 2009

Reminders

A few reminders:

Sunday, March 8: Spring your clocks 1 hour forward

Tuesday, March 10: Practice Math TAKS for all of 3rd grade

Friday, March 13: Early Dismissal 1:00 and ice cream party for selling the most raffle tickets in 3rd grade (our class as a whole!)

Thursday, March 26: Menil Field trip. If you would like to go please let me know

Friday, March 27: Briargrove Science Day

Homework March 9-13, 2009

Monday: Work on Dividing Delicious Doughnuts

Tuesday: Work on Movin in (division)

Wednesday: Work on Beautiful Moo-sic (sotry problems)

Thursday: Work on Sweet Tooth (Division)

Work on Weekly Reader throughout the week. I will be using it as a social studies grade.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Homework February 23-27, 2009 Black History Project

There will be no homework this week. I want the students working to finish their black history projects which are due this Friday.

Black History Report and Research Quilt

Your child is to select an important and influential African American that has contributed to our country. They are to research them with books from the library and information off the internet. All of the research and actual report needs to be done at home. If there are extenuating circumstances, I will allow them to do some research here but during recess time.

What to do? They will look up important information about their person. You can use the provided template to help with looking up the information. They need to turn this information into a paper 1-2 pages in length telling us about their person, making sure to include why they are important and what they did.

Presentation: The students can choose how they would like to present their information. Some suggestions might include a poster, diorama, dressing up like the person, etc. It is their choice as to how to present.

Last activity will take place in class. We are going to make a quilt where they will choose the most important information to put on the square and then put them together to make a research quilt.

On Monday the 9th, I want to know who you are doing.
Then on Tuesday the 17th, I am going to check your research. So please bring what you have up until that point so I can help if necessary.

The report is due on Friday, February 27th and the presentations will begin on March 2.

Some people could include but not limited to: Michael Jordan, Colin Powell, Martin Luther King, Jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron, Duke Ellington, Barbara Jordan, Rosa Parks, Mary Mcleod Bethune, Jesse Jackson, Maya Angelou, Chuck Berry, Walter Payton, Dr. J (Julius Irving), Mohammed Ali, Jackie Joyner- Kersee, Kareem Abdul-Jabar, Oprah Winfrey, Booker T. Washington, Benjamin Banneker, George Washington Carver, Thurgood Marshall, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Langston Hughes, Sammy Davis, Jr.