Mrs.

Goodnight’s Third
Grade News
Micanopy Area
March 22, 2010
Cooperative School

 FIELD TRIP to Natural History Waterways and Wildlife of Florida

Program on Tuesday, March 23rd. We will be leaving MACS at 9:15 a.m.
sharp. Students will be return to MACS by our regularly scheduled
lunch...

Weekly Assignments

Snack
Monday-
Math- p. 97; Sunshine Math XXI
Spelling- Practice Test; write misspelled

Schedule
words 3 x’s each
Read- 30 minutes

Tuesday- Week of 3/22

Math- Study your multiplication facts
Spelling- 2 x’s each
Monday – Mrs.
Read- 30 minutes
Goodnight- on field trip
Wednesday- Tuesday – Del
Math- p.98
Spelling- Rainbow Spelling Wednesday – Dillion
Language Arts- paragraph of the week Thursday– Cory R.
assignment; details attached Friday– Raven
Thursday
Math- p. 99 *We have 19 students.
Spelling- Practice Test
Read- 30 min

Dates to
Vocabulary/Ex SPELLING LIST - VCCV PATTERN
Remember cowboy garden
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Spelling horses tender
3/23 Florida corral window
Words
Museum of winter basket
Natural History- ranchers always fifteen
field trip profit cactus lasso
tending market until
corral Monday
stray
*market
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Math – Week of 3/22
This week students are Your child is beginning a chapter on probability—the
going to the Natural likeliness of an outcome. Problems in this chapter deal
History Museum to with certain and impossible events, most likely and
learn more about least likely outcomes, telling whether a game is fair,
Florida’s Wild Life and and predicting outcomes.
Water Ways. Ask your
child to share what he Vocabulary-
or she learned with you event- something that happens
after the trip. During certain- describes an event that will always happen
class, each child will be impossible- describes an event that will never happen
possible outcome- something that could happen as a result
expected to write about
of an action
at least two things that
they learned on our
field trip.
READING- Notes
STUDENTS ARE READING THE SELECTION,
“YIPPEE-YAY!” THIS WEEK. DURING READING, STUDENTS
WILL FOCUS ON IDENTIFYING MAIN IDEAS AND DETAILS,
USING REFERENCE MATERIALS, AND DEVELOPING
VOCABULARY. THE WILL ALSO BE IDENTIFYING MAIN AND
HELPING VERBS.

THE NEXT BOOK RESPONSE WILL REQUIRE EACH THIRD

GRADER TO RESEARCH AND LEARN ABOUT ANOTHER STATE
IN THEUSA. THEN SHARE WHAT HE/SHE HAS LEARNED IN
A REPORT THAT WILL BE PRESENTED TO THE CLASS. AS A
CULMINATING ACTIVITY, STUDENTS WILL CREATE A SHOEBOX
SIZED FLOAT WITH ITEMS REPRESENTING THE STATE THAT
HE/SHE STUDIED. DETAILS REGARDING THIS ASSIGNMENT
ARE ATTACHED.

Writing-
Paragraph of the week Meredith Goodnight, Third Grade Teacher
m.goodnight@micanopyareaschool.org
352-466-0990