Welcome to Ms. Lynch's Class
Classroom Status
I hope that everybody had a wonderful holiday season. The long, cold days of winter are upon us now and like many of you I am looking ahead to warmer weather and springtime. Thoughts of warm weather make us realize that the year is about half over. I have begun to look ahead to see where the class will be by the end of third grade. I have a tentative listing below that is a basic guide for the rest of the year. Please don't hold the dates firm. We do some creative learning projects in class and they often take longer. Our class is made of children with many different types of learning styles and we need to reach everybody. We appear to be on track in everything except Science and Social Studies. I have listed my plan for those subjects and with hard work we should get close to completing the whole series. I will strive to do my best which is all that we can ask of each other. Thank you for all that you have done to help make this a great year with the class. We are learning a lot and having a successful year and that is a good thing. Thank you again. As always, please let me know if I can be of any help during the remainder of the year. My email address is below.
Math
January-Chapter 4 Time and Graphs
February-Chapter 5 and 6 Multiplication
March-Chapter 7 and 8 Division
April-Chapter 9 and 10 Multiplication and Division with 1 number
May-Chapter 11 Measurement
June-Chapter 12-14 Geometry, Fractions and Decimals
English
January and February-Unit 4 Adjectives and Adverbs
March-Unit 5 Capitalization and Punctuation
April-Unit 6 Pronouns
May-June Unit 7-12 Writing for Different Purposes
These are units that provide the opportunity to write different types of material. We will use the grammar rules that we have learned and explore our own writing styles.
Reading
Currently we are reading stories from Theme 3 which is 'Incredible Stories'. There are a total of 6 themes.
February and March - Theme 4 Animal Habitats
March and April - Theme 5 Voyagers
May and June - Theme 6 Smart Solutions
Spelling
This week (January 15th) we are working on the words from Unit 14. There are 36 total units which leaves 22 more to do. At this point there are about 21 weeks left in the school year so we will just about complete the entire book.
Religion
January-Chapters 9, 10, 11
Chapter 9-The Church Teaches Us
Chapter 10-The Church Prays
Chapter 11-The Parish is Our Home
February-Chapters 12, 15, 16
Chapter 12-God Calls Us to Holiness
Chapter 15-We Celebrate the Sacraments
Chapter 16-Celebrating Eucharist: The Mass
March-Chapters 17, 18, 19
April-Chapters 20, 21, 27
May-Chapters 22, 23, 24
June-Chapters 25, 26, 28
Science
January-Unit A Life Science
February and March-Unit B Earth Science
April and May-Unit C Physical Science
June-Unit D Space and Technology
Social Studies
January-Unit 2 Communities and Geography
February-Unit 3 Communities Over Time
March-Unit 4 Citizens and Government
April-Unit 5 People in Communities
May and June-Unit 6 Working in Communities
Please feel free to contact me at jlynch@stjosephprek8.org!
General Expectations and Guidelines
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1. Homework is to be completed the night it is assigned. |
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2. Missed work is to be made up in the same amount of time the child missed. |
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3. Class work is to be completed as assigned. If not completed, it is to be done for homework. |
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4. If homework is not turned in when due, points will be deducted until handed in to the teacher. |
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5. Children are expected to read and FOLLOW all directions. Points will be deducted when directions are not followed. |
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6. Tests and papers will usually be sent home on Tuesdays. |
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7. When handing any papers in, the proper heading is to be at the top of each page. Dates are to be at the top of every page within notebooks. First and last name are to be written at all times. Points will be deducted for improper headings. |
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8. We are reviewing cursive and all children will be expected to complete all work in cursive by January. |
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9. The children are expected to work during work time and play during play time. If they decide to play during work time then I will have them stay in during play time to complete the work. |
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10. Always do your best. |
Please feel free to contact me at jlynch@stjosephprek8.org