Tests for the Week of Sept. 12-16

Today I showed the class how to record their tests for the week in the green "words of the week" column so that they will have a running record of what they should study for during the week. Please use my posted list to check what your child writes down on Mondays & remember to help them study!
P.S. Be on the lookout for Social Studies Ch 1 Study Guides to come home tomorrow to guide your studies for Wednesday's quiz :)

Tests for the Week:
Wednesday:
1. Social Studies
Quiz Ch 1 L 1
Thursday:
2. Reading Vocab Quiz
Ballad of Mulan
Friday:
3. Reading Test: Ballad of Mulan
4. Religion Ch 2
5. Math Quiz Ch 1: Rounding & Money

3rd Grade is SEW Cool!

   Have you heard about how cool 3rd grade is yet?!? In Miss Farmer's Class we're SEW cool that we used part of the first week of school to sew our own over-the-chair binder bags to store a note-taking binder, supply box, and water bottle in. Thank you Miss Hellbusch for coming up with a project that teaches us real life skills and will help keep us organized all year long!
   By now I hope that everyone has had a chance to check out our fabulous binder bags in person, but if you haven't, here are some pictures to fill you in. Thank you to our fabulous parent volunteers who came in early in the year to help us get off on the right foot! I hope you enjoy the pictures from our project and that more families will be inspired to create an organized study space for at home studying and nightly practice. If you have any other ideas to share about keeping 3rd graders organized, please share them in the comment section below! :-)

We're hard at work!

Awesome!

We're all smiles as we get ready to sew!

Reading Vocabulary

Our first story in reading is called Cliff Hanger and we will begin studying it tomorrow (Friday, September 2)! Since this is our first story I thought that I'd share the vocabulary list with everyone on our blog so that you can start studying for Thursday's Vocabulary Quiz. Each student will receive a copy of the list in class tomorrow, but feel free to print it out at home for reference if you'd like. Have a great Labor Day weekend and make sure to check back this weekend for a blog with pictures of the class' sewing project from the first few days of school!

Cliff Hanger

Belay	Being tied to a person or a rock with a rope for safety
Harness	A set of straps that can attach to a safety rope
Ledge	A shelf of rock
Descent	A trip down into or from something, such as a mountain
Rappel	To come down a cliff by sliding down a rope
Trekked	made a slow and difficult journey on foot
Carabiners	metal rings used by rock climbers to attach ropes to themselves or to climbing nuts
Plunging	falling suddenly and quickly
Foresaw	knew something before it happened
Vertical	straight up and down