Language Arts- This week and last week... Last week third graders took our third grade state tests.  As a result, we are off -pace with our reading week and so we will be continuing to work on it this week through Wednesday. Thursday and Friday we will begin Unit 2 week 3 which has to do with Elections. 

 Essential Question this week- How do landmarks help us understand our country's story?

This week we read the stories, "A Natural Beauty" and "A Mountain of History".  These are Expository texts which means that it gives the reader facts and information about a social studies topic.  It also includes features such as photographs, captions, sidebars, and maps.  
Within these stories we learned interesting facts about many monuments and landmarks that we find in the United States and what they mean to our country and how they helped to form our country's story.  We are working on Main idea and details within the texts. We are also working on simple and compound sentences. 

We will wrap up these stories on Wednesday by taking the end of the week test.

Math- This week we will wrap up topic 3 and take the test Tuesday. This test will be on paper this time.   Our next Topic we will begin division. 

 Social Studies- This week we will be learning about elections and about the candidates for Presidency. 

Writing- Kids have been working on a Halloween story as well as writing about a Halloween Costume for me. 

Halloween

Thank you to everyone that have been sending in items for our Halloween celebration. Children can come to school dressed for Halloween and we will celebrate in the morning. Kids can change out of their costumes for the afternoon. 

Reminder, Next Monday and Tuesday kids will not have school.