Cougar Buck Store Items Needed

Happy Holidays!
The end of the nine weeks will be here in a few weeks. Our students have earned Cougar Bucks for good behavior and good work habits. They are eager to spend their Cougar Bucks at the Cougar Buck Store at the end of the nine weeks.
Here is how you can help right now: when you are out shopping at the after Christmas sales and end of year clearance sales, please pick up items for students to purchase at our Cougar Buck Store. The Five Below Store has items that were very popular with our third graders the last time we had the Store. Your help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
Mr. Kiser
 

Thank you for my Christmas gifts

For all you students who gave me a gift for Christmas, I truly appreciate your generosity and kindness.
It is a blessing to teach third grade students at Neuse Charter.
Love and Merry Christmas,
Mr. Kiser

Week of December 9-13

Monday 12-9-13: Mean, Median, Line Plot worksheet
Tuesday 12-10-13: skill J.5 www.ixl.com level E (Properties of Multiplication)
Wednesday 12-11-13: skill S.1 www.ixl.com level E (Fractions)
Thursday 12-12-13: Complete project (due Friday)
Friday 12-13-13: Sign the progress report and return it on Monday.

Math HW

Monday: www.ixl.com Level E, Skill U.2
Tuesday: www.ixl.com Level E, Skill U.3
Wednesday: www.ixl.com Level D, Skill V.3
Thursday: www.ixl.com Level D, Skill V.4

There is a project due next Friday. Your child has instructions and a rubric.

Craft money needed

We are still in need of some e-gift cards so Mrs. Vassar can order the materials for our holiday crafts. We are about $100 shy of our goal. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. Just go to www.orientaltrading.com and enter her email address when purchasing e-gift cards.
Thank you!

Pre EOG Scores

Your child is receiving his/her Pre EOG reading score today in the reading folder. This is the state test all third grade students took at the beginning of this year. Please look at this data with your child.
The state expects each child to make growth. One of the best ways to do that is to read, read, read. Check out books from the public library or our school library that are on your child's reading level or one reading level higher. The goal is for students to be able to not only sound out the words, but to comprehend the meaning of the text.

homework for the week of November 18

This week we are learning our multiples of 3  (3x0 through 3x12). Practice saying and writing them everyday.
Monday's homework is to go to www.ixl.com and go to Level F, then do Skill J.5.
The blue group has a test on Wednesday on graphs, (bar graphs, pictographs, and tally charts).
White and gold groups have the test on Thursday.
Tuesday's and Wednesday's homework is to go back into the ixl graph skills and practice more of the same ones.
Thursday's homework is to study for the multiples of 3 quiz on Friday with ixl level E, Skill F.4.

November 12-15 Homework

Tuesday: Please sign new papers in the Take Home Folder. Ident-A-Kid information is going home today.  There is a plastic bag with all the work from the first nine weeks. You may keep all that at home. I still need to collect money for the field trips. I also need the Morehead Planetarium permission forms.
 Everyone does Level D, Skill R.2 tonight about Bar Graphs on www.IXL.com.

Wednesday: Everyone does Level E, Skill P.9

Thursday:
Blue Group does Level D, Skill R.4
White and Gold Groups do Level D, Skill R.3 

Math Homework is different this week

Monday (11-4-13):
Blue Group: Go to http://www.eduplace.com/math/mw/practice/3/lp_3_u3sel.html . Select the 6.4 and Homework buttons. Press Go. You will then print out the worksheet to complete and return on Tuesday. Also return the empty report card envelope.
White Group: Go to http://www.eduplace.com/math/mw/practice/3/lp_3_u3sel.html. Select the 6.1 and Problem Solving buttons. Press Go. You will then print out the worksheet to complete and return on Tuesday. Also return the empty report card envelope,
Gold Group: Complete the Problem Solving 6.1 worksheet that I handed to you in class and bring back the empty report card envelope.

Tuesday (11-5-13): Everyone should practice learning multiples of 8.
Until further notice you must score at least an 80 on www.IXL.com to receive credit (or work for 30 minutes, whichever comes first.)
Blue Group: Level E, Skill P.8
White and Gold Groups: Go to http://www.eduplace.com/math/mw/practice/3/lp_3_u3sel.html. Select the 6.4 and Homework buttons. Press Go. You will then print out the worksheet to complete and return on Tuesday.

Wednesday (11-6-13):Everyone should practice learning multiples of 8.
Blue Group: Level E, Skill P.4
Gold and White Groups: Level E, Skill P.8    Until further notice you must score at least an 80 on www.IXL.com to receive credit (or work for 30 minutes, whichever comes first.)

Thursday (11-7-13): Everyone should practice multiples of 8 for quiz on Friday.
Blue Group:  Level E, Skills F.9 and P.5
White and Gold Groups: Level E, Skills F.9 and P.4

Report Cards and Awards Assembly

Report Cards go home on Monday, November 4th. Please sign the envelope and return the envelope only on Monday. You may keep the report card.

The Awards Assembly for 3rd - 5th Grades is Friday, November 8th beginning at 10:00. You will be notified within the next few days if your child is receiving an award.

Math Homework Oc.t 28 - Nov. 1

Tuesday, October 29th:
Blue Group: Study for Telling Time Test (on Wednesday) AND Review for Multiples of 10, 11, 5, 4, and 2 Quiz (on Friday)
White and Gold Groups: page 338 worksheet on Elapsed Time AND Review for Multiples of 10, 11, 5, 4, and 2 Quiz (on Friday)

Wednesday, October 30th:
Blue Group: Review for Multiples of 10, 11, 5, 4, and 2 Quiz (on Friday)
White and Gold Groups: Study for Telling Time Test (on Thursday) AND Review for Multiples of 10, 11, 5, 4, and 2 Quiz (on Friday)

Thursday, October 31st:
Everyone: Review for Multiples of 10, 11, 5, 4, and 2 Quiz (on Friday)

Math HW Oct. 21-23

Monday 10-21-13
O.1 and F.5

Tuesday 10-22-13
O.2 or O.3

Wednesday 10-23-13
Review sheet on Telling Time
Study Multiples of Four for Quiz

Math Week Oct. 14-18

This week we are continuing our unit on money. By the end of the week we will begin our unit on telling time. These lessons are life-long skills that need to be reinforced at home. Please practice counting money, making change, telling time, and figuring elapsed time.

The homework for this week is as follows:
Monday everyone does 2 IXL skills: F.3 and H.2
Tuesday White and Gold groups do level E, skill N.7
       Blue group does level F, skill M.3
Wednesday White and Gold groups do level E, skill N.8
       Blue group does level F, skill M.5
Thursday White and Gold groups do level E, skill N.9
       Blue group does level F, skill M.6

Math Project due Friday

 I gave this same set of instructions to your child on Monday on a green half sheet of paper.
Here are the instructions for the project:
You are the cashier at a store you own. You decide what type of merchandise you sell at your store and give your store a name. Draw a picture of items that would be for sale. Make a chart that lists the items and their prices. Five customers bring their merchandise to your cash register. Tell what each customer bought and the price of every item. Add their total cost. They pay with a bill that is larger than their total. Subtract to make change. Tell exactly how many bills and coins you give the customer to make change.

Example:                      Grover’s Grocery Store

Merchandise	Price
Bread	$2.50
Lettuce	$2.19
Banana	$1.38
Apple	$1.10

 
Customer One:

     $2.50 bread              $5.00 bill

+   $1.38 banana          - $3.88  total

     $3.88  total               $1.12      Customer One receives 1 dollar, 1 dime, and 2 pennies in change.

Volunteers Needed for Oct. 10

Volunteers are needed for Service Project Store during Math Classes
The third grade students are doing a service project for Operation Christmas Child. During Math Classes on Thursday of next week (October 10th) students will be using their money/math skills as they pretend to sell and buy real items that will eventually be put into shoeboxes and shipped across the world to help children at Christmas.  I already have the items for our store, but if you want to contribute at least 70 of the same item, I will take donations until Wednesday of next week.
Here is where you can help: I need volunteers to help the cashiers and the customers count and record the transactions. Please reply via email to ckiser@neusecharterschool.org if you can help and please let me know what time(s). Thank you.
Blue Math Class 10:20 - 11:35
Gold Math Class 12:50 - 2:05
White Math Class 2:10 - 3:20

Math HW for Oct 7-11

Monday: IXL level E, Skill N.2 & work on Money Market Project
 for extra practice go to the left sidebar of my blog and click the link "Math is Fun: Money"

Tuesday: IXL level E, Skill N.4 & work on Money Market Project

Wednesday: IXL level E, Skill N.3 & work on Money Market Project

Thursday: Complete Money Market Project (due Friday) & study for Multiples of 2 Quiz (Friday)

Homework for Sept 30 - Oct 4

Monday: Mountain Peak Rounding Worksheet, Watch Mount Everest Video on this blog, & Finish any classwork
Tuesday: Quick Check Worksheet & Study Notebook for Test on Ordering Comparing and Rounding
Wednesday: no HW
Thursday: www.ixl.com   level E, Skill  L.5, & Study for Multiples of 5 Quiz

Sept 23-26 Math Homework

September 23:everyone: level E, skill L.2
September 24: everyone: level E, skill A.9
September 25: White and Gold Groups: level D, skill N.3
                         Blue Group: Level F, skill A.6
September 26: everyone: level E, skill F.11
www.ixl.com

Homework Sept. 16-19

9/16/13  Level E, ixl.com, Skill A.10

9/17/13 Level E, ixl.com, Skill L.1

9/18/13 Level E, ixl.com, Skill L.3

9/19/13 Level E, ixl.com, Skill F.12

No Homework

We had a test today on Place Value. There is no homework on test day. We will have quiz on Monday on Multiples of Zero and Multiples of One. You will need to review for the quiz before Monday.
Our Rounding Unit starts Friday. Check out the video on the right sidebar of this blog.

Math HW

Monday, September 9th:
Log in to www.ixl.com.
Go to level E.
Work on Skill B.5.

Tuesday, September 10th:
1. Log into www.ixl.com.
     Go to Level E.
     Work on Skill B.8
2. Complete any missing assignments in textbook.
(If your child did not bring home a textbook, they do not have missing work.)

Math HW Sept. 3-5

If you have not sent in $14.00 for third grade subscriptions to IXL, Scholastic News, and Science Spin, please do so this week.
Senora Joyner is requiring a one subject notebook (any color) for Spanish.
Math Homework
Tuesday: B.7 (Work until you reach a score of 70 points or for 30 minutes, whichever comes first.)
Wednesday: B.3 (70 pts or 30 min)
Thursday: B.4 (70 pts or 30 min)
 

Math HW 8/26 - 8/29

If you have not sent in $14.00 for the subscriptions (IXL, Scholastic News, and Science Spin) PLEASE do so this week if at all possible. Students are going to start using IXL for math homework Monday through Thursday.
The math homework will be on ixl.com. Use the link on the left sidebar on my blog.
Log in with the username and password that is glued into the front of the blue math notebook in the binder.
Monday, August 26: Click "Third Grade", click "C.1", and answer questions until you reach a score of 70 or work for 30 minutes (whichever comes first).
Take Home Folders: There are "Keep at Home" papers and "Sign and Return" papers. Just sign the slip stapled to the papers and return everything stapled.
Tuesday, August 27: Third Grade, D.1 (score of 70 or 30 minutes)
Wednesday, August 28: Third Grade, B.1 (score of 70 or 30 minutes)
Thursday, August 29: Third Grade, B.2 (score of 70 or 30 minutes)

Math HW

Math homework will start Monday, August 26.
We are adjusting our recess schedule to before lunch. I believe this will work better in our schedule. We plan to eat lunch in the lunch room.
If you would like an updated schedule, please send me an email.

First Day Dismissal

Please send a note or email telling me if your child is going home on a daycare van. If your child is going home in the regular car line, you do not need to send me a message.

Parent Meeting

At least one parent of students going into third grade are encouraged to attend the Parent Meeting on Monday, August 19th at 7:00pm. This meeting is only for parents. The student orientation is the afternoon of Friday, August 16th. I am excited about meeting you.

NEW SCHOOL YEAR

Dear Parents,

I am looking forward to a great start to a new school year. I cannot wait to meet all my students. This year I will teach math to all the students in third grade no matter what homeroom they are assigned.

The transition from second grade to third grade is a big step toward independence. There will be a parent orientation meeting within the first few days of school to address expectations, schedule, discipline system, and questions. I am looking forward to meeting the parents at that meeting.

The third grade teachers have posted a supply list on the school website. There should also be a copy at Walmart and Office Max. I promise that we use everything on the list during third grade. I believe students work smarter when they are organized, so our supply list includes all they need in order to be organized and color coded.

Happy Summer!
Mr. Kiser