Happy November!

Hi Parents!
It is hard to believe that we are almost halfway done with 2nd quarter!  Time is FLYING by.  What a great year it has been so far!  I want to extend a HUGE thank you to Mrs. Lark and Mrs. Boone for organizing our Halloween party and our beautiful class auction project!  What a huge success!
Here are some upcoming things we will be working on:
3rd grade Religion: the layout of the liturgical year, feasts and Holy days, the meaning of Advent, The Divine Mercy chaplet, memorizing the Act of Contrition, and how to make a great examination of conscience and have a good confession, and the different parts of the Mass (the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist)
3rd grade Lanugage Arts: common and proper nouns, elements of poetry, research skills, singular and plural nouns, writing fairy tales, using maps, magazines, and the internet to do research, irregular plural nouns, presenting research, and making advertisements.  We will also be making the transition to full-time cursive writing this month!
3rd grade Math: Multiplication!! PLEASE be working on basic multiplication facts at home with your child!  It is so critical that you help me with this!
4th grade Math: multiplying 2- and 3-digit numbers by 1- and 2-digit numbers.  As I'm sure you've noticed, we're using both an expanded and standard algorithm for this (YouTube has some great videos about these, if you're not sure.  Try this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yP1PPLZt0Q).  I'm teaching both, because they both have value - please let your child do it however he or she feels comfortable!
5th grade Math: dividing using 2-digit divisors, and then we'll be getting into multiplying and dividing with decimals.  Tough stuff!!

For 3rd grade reading, see Mrs. Gieck's blog: http://cccsfourthgrade.blogspot.com/
For 3rd grade science/social studies, see Mrs. Nuvolini's blog: http://www.cccsfifthgrade.blogspot.com/

Have a blessed month!!

-Ms. Corbett

"When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!” - Fulton J. Sheen, a favorite author of mine :-)

Hi all,
Wow! What a great first quarter! Here are some upcoming things for this week:
-Spelling:  New spelling list for this week!  We will have the test on NEXT Friday, the 25th.
-Religion: We are learning the 10 Commandments.  Students will be expected to have them memorized by Friday the 25th.
-Language Arts: We are working on writing/editing descriptive paragraphs and imperative and exclamatory sentences.
-Math 3:  Adding 3 digit numbers.  Homework: 3.1 is due Monday and 3.2 is due Tuesday.
-Math 4:  Adding and subtracting whole numbers.  Homework 4.2 is due Monday and 4.3 is due Tuesday.
-Math 5: Division.  Homework 4.1 is due Monday and 4.2 is due Tuesday.
Hope you had a blessed weekend.  I'm looking forward to chatting with you at conferences on Wednesday and Thursday.  No school Friday!
-Miss Corbett

Welcome to third grade's blog!  I will try to use this blog to help you keep track of some of the general concepts your students are covering in class with me. Please let me know if you have any questions :-)

Last Friday was a fun day for us: we got worn out at the Jog-a-thon, and then in the afternoon we went to the pre-k's carnival celebration so that we could spend some time with our buddy class.  The 3rd graders were awesome at helping their buddies and playing with them!