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  • Learning for the Future: Everyone, Every Way, Every Day
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Mailing Address

  • Fort Rucker Elementary School
  • Bldg 21037, Red Cloud Road
  • P.O. Box 620279
  • Fort Rucker, AL 36362

Principal: Ms. Barbara Doherty

Phone: (334) 598-4408

Fax: (334) 598-6784

What's Happening in Room 321 Mrs. L.H.'s Class
Learning for the Future: Everyone, Every Way, Every Day

February 22-26 , 2010

Reading-

Key Strategy: Making Inferences

This week, our Literacy Place story The Case of the Runaway Elephant provides many opportunitis for students to make inferences from story clues, picture clues, ad prior knowledge.  Throughout the text, the author gives clues that the reader has to piece together to figure othe the solution to the mystery.

In reading groups, we are using graphic organizers to aid our reading comprehension as we focus on fluency, summarizing, predicting and inferring.

( ELA standards: Accuracy and Fluency 3E1a.4: Read aloud independently from guided reading level P books that they have
previewed silently on their own, using intonation, pauses and emphasis that
signal the meaning of the text.)

Reading Groups:

Skippy Jon Jones

The Thief Lord

Holes

Robert and the Embarrassing Secret

(3E1c: Comprehension and Analysis of Literary Text
Students read and respond to a wide variety of significant works of
children’s literature. At Grade 3, students read a wide variety of fiction,
such as classic and contemporary literature, historical fiction, fantasy,
science fiction, folklore, mythology, poetry, songs, plays, and other
genres.)

Grammar

Our grammar focus this week is adverbs.  Our mechanics focus is the apostrophe in possessives.

(3E2c: English Language Conventions
Students write using Standard English conventions appropriate to the
3rd grade level.)

Writing

Big Six Trait: The focus trait this week is Idea Development, with a secondary focus on word choice.   We continue to work on taking our stories of adventures with imaginary friends through the writing process to publication.

Spelling

Words with -r- controlled vowels--See list to lower right.

(3E2c.8: Spell correctly one-syllable words that have blends (such as walk, play,
blend), contractions (such as isn’t, can’t), compounds, common spelling
patterns (such as qu-; changing win to winning; changing the ending of the
word from –y to –ies to make a plural, such as cherry/cherries), and common
homophones (words that sound the same but have different spelling, such
as hair/hare).

Math

Multiplication!  We have learned the zero property and the identity property of multiplication this week to go along with the commutative property we learned earlier. Everyone understands the concept of multiplication as repeated addition. We have also represented equations in arrays and as equal groups.  Now it's time for the dirty work of memorizing the facts!

(3.M.1h:explain and solve problems involving the multiplication of two whole numbers where factors are 99 or less.)
Example: Multiply 36 times 52.  Explain your method.

Science

 We are learning about the animal kingdom and life cycles of its members.

Students have each selected an animal of interest on which to write a report.

S6b: gains an understanding that the details in the life cycles of organisms
are different for different types of organisms.

S6d3. describe how growth, death, and decay are integral aspects of living
systems by providing evidence from readings and observations.

Homework:

Read Literacy Place story for twenty minutes three nights each week.

Read and complete the Home/School Connection one night (due on Fridays)

Complete 100 points worth of activities from the weekly Spelling Contract.

Math as assigned in planner.

Read your assigned pages for reading group.

 

Our Continuous School Improvement Goals:

All students will improve reading comprehension across the curriculum.

All students will improve written communication across the curriculum.

 

 

 

 

 

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Teacher Contact

  • Phone:  (334) 598-4408

A Look Ahead

Terra Nova testing is next week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday!

 

Class Rules

  1. Respect yourself and others.
  2. Follow directions and procedures.
  3. Turn in neat work on time.
  4. Keep hands, feet, and objects to yourself.
  5. Speak kindly.

All class and school rules can be summed up by: "Do the right thing."

Daily Schedule

  • 7:30 Walk to classrooms or breakfast
  • 7:35 Math Warm-Up, Problem of the Day, Analogies
  • 7:50 Morning announcements and Pledge of Allegiance
  • 8:00 Math
  • 9:00 Unit (Science, Social Studies, Health)
  • 9:30 English/Language Arts Whole Group Instruction
  • 10:00 Read Aloud/Restroom/Snack
  • (T-Spanish)
  • (W- Library 10:10-11:10)
  • (Th-Computer Lab 10:00-11:00)
  • 10:20 ELA/ Handwriting/ Writing
  • 11:20 Lunch and recess
  • 12:15 Reading Groups
  •           Wednesday 12:30-1:00 Guidance
  •   1:15 Special Areas
  •     M- Music
  •     T- PE
  •     W- Library
  •     Th-Art
  •     F- Spanish
  • 2:15 End of Day Business
  • 2:25 Dismissal

 

  • Spelling Words:
  • aren't
  • partner
  • hard
  • chart
  • farm
  • start
  • large
  • more
  • before
  • horse
  • north
  • morning
  • care
  • stare
  • warning
  • charming
  • score

 

Continuous School Improvement Plan CSIP

Through the Children's Eyes

Goal One:

Improve my writing across the curriculum

How we meet this goal:

We use the BIG SIX when we write. We talk about voice and ideas and things like that. Ideas are like what you want to write about. Voice is a word choice so that when you use the words the person who is reading it can feel like he is in that situation. We also use conventions, organization and sentence fluency to help us in our writing.

 

Goal Two:

Improve my reading across the curriculum

How we meet this goal:

We get in a group with about four other students and we read a book of our choice. Then we write a summary in our journals, answer questions about the book, or use a graphic organizer to tell about what we read.

 

 

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