Welcome to our new year!!   Students were eager and ready to meet and greet their friends Thursday and Friday.  We will start off with School-wide Behavior review and practice Monday.  We have already started our class groups and have met each teacher.  Let us know if you have any questions.

Report cards are coming home with your child today.  
Please sign the front page and return ALL pages.   


In this 9 week grading period we have covered prefixes and root words, ABC order, contractions, compound words, sequencing events, rhyming words, guide words in a dictionary, noun - definition, common and proper nouns, collective nouns, nouns as subject of the sentence and verbs in the predicate.  We have worked on informative writing (expository), our journals, and in identifying and developing purpose and audience in our writing.  The focus of the next TCAP writing assessment will be narrative.  This will be at the end of January and beginning of February.

COMMON CORE - new in Tennessee and our school in 3rd grade

The way we study and learn - the way grades look ... is all changing with the new common core.  We are taking NOTES in class when we come to a new topic of study.  Students are responsible for keeping up with the notes and for learning (studying) new material.  

We have already studied:  Sentences - Sentence Fragments,  Sentence Types (Declarative, Interrogative, Exclamatory, and Imperative), The steps in the WRITING PROCESS, singular and plural rules, root words, base words, suffixes, long vowels, short vowels, long vowel digraphs, the spelling of the months of the year, the spelling of the days of the week, and the abbreviations for all of those.                                                                                                  

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     We had a successful first day of school!  Our homeroom has 23 students as we start out.  We have 12 girls and 11 boys.  We worked in our homerooms this morning, then swapped  classes to each teacher to meet and learn about all our subjects and all of our teachers.  We even managed to work in a recess!