WEEK OF FEBRUARY 6 – 10, 2012

This week, Discovery School will be hosting the ABSH Spelling Bee, with 25 schools from all over Honduras participating. We are very proud to have Matteo Renda represent us in the Spelling Bee in English, and Dago Sanchez represent us in Ortografia in Spanish. YOU ARE WINNERS and we are sure you will do a great job!!!

Our third graders are working very hard and keeping themselves very busy in class. We are engaging in some very cool projects, all the while learning and having fun. This is what we will be doing this week:

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• Math: we begin our unit on Fractions this week, learning about equal parts, fractional parts or regions, equivalent fractions, comparing, ordering and estimating fractions. You may want
  to use the following websites once the content has been covered in class: http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/FabulousFractions/default.htm

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/fractionflags/fractionflags.html

http://www.aaamath.com/B/g36a_cx1.htm#section2

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/math-games/melvins-make-match/http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/cross_the_river/

http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-3/compare-fractions

http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-3/order-fractions

• R/W Workshop: we continue our unit on descriptive writing by writing on our personal journals in class. We will have a Journal Tea Time (volunterers are welcome!) to share the final product with our 3^rd grade parents after the President’s Day Holiday. The children continue to enjoy Caleb’s Story for Read Aloud, which ties into our descriptive writing unit. New Novels and Packets will be distributed this week.
• Spelling: lesson 22 for this week is about homophones. The quiz will be on Friday.
• Theme: we will warp up our Unit on Chemistry, and introduce our very much awaited unit on the MAYAN CIVILIZATION. We are planning to have our traditional Mayan Museum on the first days in March. Woohoo!
• Handwriting: letters /M/ and /V/ in cursive.

MAP REPORTS will be sent home on Tuesday. If you would like to meet and discuss them, please call the school to set an appointment.

HOMEWORK

Monday	Read your new novel Math paper Pair the homophones of your Spelling list *Practice your facts
Tuesday	Read your new novel Math paper Write sentences using 2 Spelling words in each sentence *Practice your facts
Wednesday	Read your new novel Math paper Spelling sheet *Practice your facts
Thursday	Read your new novel Math paper Stuudy for your Spelling quiz *Practice your facts
Friday	Read your new novel Practice your facts