Spelling city and tumble books

On the left side of this page you will notice educational and fun web-sites for your child. Spelling city is a web-site that will host our spelling words each week. There are many fun games to play that teach your child his or her spelling words. Click on the words spelling city and then click on the tab find a spelling list. Next, type Ryan Williams in the box that appears. My name should appear. Finally, click on lesson 9 and your child will now be able to play games with his or her spelling words for the week.

The next web-site I would like for you to visit is Tumble Books. This is truly a fantastic web-site for you to visit with your child. Click on the link and then type in cravensteacher and books for the username and password. You will notice a drop down box in the top left hand corner that you can customize to find books of your choice.

Have Fun and enjoy-and who said learning had to be boring!

New for the 18th of October

The 3rd Grade News
October 18, 2010

Important Information:
We hope everyone had an enjoyable Fall Break!
Thank you to all of the parents and guardians who came to Parent and Teacher conferences. If you were unable to make the conference we would still like to hear from you.
Keep bringing in your box tops and labels.
Math this week: finishing up subtraction and moving into multiplication
Science this week: plants
Social studies this week: community workers
Language Arts this week: adverbs
Spelling test every Friday.
Vocabulary: The rap When I grow up – test on Friday
Please make sure to sign your child’s agenda every night.
*All of the students are working on different reading levels in third grade. It is important they read for 15 minutes nightly.

Thank you,
Your 3rd grade teachers

Sorry for the delay

After Fall Break you will begin to notice some new and exciting posts from the third grade. I apologize for the delay, but I promise to work diligently on updating our third grade blog. Please hang in there as I get accustomed to my new grade level.

What a Year!

Thank you to all of the parents and students who made this a wonderful year. I have been teaching for 11 years and this class of students ranks right up there with some of my best classes. I am truly excited to announce that I am teaching 3rd grade next year, and I can't wait to have your children again in two years!
Have a safe and terrific summer! Please make sure your child does at least 10 to 20 minutes a day of reading over the break.

sorry

It has been real crazy around here and I am sorry about not updating the blog. Report cards will go home on the last day of school. Please make sure your child reads something every day over the break. If they read at least 20 minutes a day over the break they will come to school ready to learn with very little loss of learning. Have a safe and fun summer break and I hope everyone comes back to Cravens next year! I have truly loved teaching all of your children this year!

Limo ride

The limo will be here this Wednesday the 10th to take some fabulous readers to McDonald's for a free sundae! These 16 students completed their word folders which consisted of over 1,000 words and 600 word phrases.

Upcoming events

This week if everything goes right and behaviors are good we will be going to BBQ festival on Friday.
Yellow group is getting their new Open Court Big books today.
Blue group is closing in on finishing their second anthology.
Congratulations to Aaliyah Leech for finishing her word folder.
The Hot Peppers won the second annual math bowl last Friday.