Quarter 3, Week 1:

Happy New Year!

Field Trip:

Third grade will be visiting the Musical Instrument Museum on 

January 27th. Permission slips will go out this week and will be 

due back the Friday beforehand. Be on the lookout for an email 

requesting volunteer chaperones. You must have a valid fingerprint

 clearance card to be considered. 

Language Arts: We will begin memorizing parts of a new 

poem this week, The Adventures of Isabel. Recitations will 

be in two weeks. We jump back into spelling as normal. 

We will begin discussing explanatory writing. Finally, we 

begin our new novel, The Trumpet of the Swan. Students 

must bring in their copy as soon as possible as we begin 

Monday with Chapter 1 or very soon thereafter.

Math: This week we will come back and introduce probability 

briefly. There will be a short assessment on Wednesday after 

math groups to check for understanding. Then we will begin

 our fraction unit. We need parent volunteers every week for

 math groups. Please consider helping out :)

History: Students will do a quick review of some key details

 related to the Roman Empire, then continue the study of the

 causes of the Roman Empire’s decline in the West. They will 

also read about Emperor Constantine and the changes that

 he instituted in Roman civilization, as well as the differences

 between the Eastern Empire and Western Empires. This will 

conclude this Unit of study and by the end of the week third 

graders will be introduced to our next Unit of study on the 

Vikings. This Germanic/Scandinavian civilization took hold

 after the void left after the weakening Roman Empire in the 

west. This study will begin with a discussion of how we learn

 about ancient History through the science of Archeology

and related vocabulary. 

Science: This week we will be learning about Sound! Students will learn what causes sound and how sound travels.