Third Grade Class

Science Test – Chapter One on Thursday September 9

Study Guide due Wednesday September 8 (will be distributed on Tuesday 9.7.10)

Spelling List 4

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

1.      table

2.      able

3.      became

4.      space

5.      race

6.      face

7.      smile

8.      mile

9.      side

10.    life

11.    seem

12.    feel

13.    smoke

14.    broke

15.    poke

16.    bicycle

17.    California

18.    Raleigh

19.    North Carolina

20.    sacrament

Spelling List Three (09.01.2010)

1.      fact

2.      badge

3.      angry

4.      wrap

5.      empty

6.      edge

7.      neck

8.      wreck

9.      check

10.    shells

11.    tip

12.    rib

13.    cricket

14.    shock        

15.    upon

16.    chirp

17.    porcupine

18.    quills

19.    ostrich

20.    enemy

Monday

Spelling:  pretest

Math:  Pages 12-13;   Test Chapter One Wednesday; Worksheet 1.6

Social Studies:  workbook Pages 1-4 due Tuesday

Religion Test Chapter 1 on Friday

Reading Log:  Due Tuesday

Book Report Due September 24

Tuesday

Spelling:  Pretest

Math:  Pages 14-15; Test chapter One Wednesday

Wednesday

Spelling:  Write list words three times each

Math:  Pages 20-21; Worksheet 2.1

Thursday

Spelling:  Use all list words in poem, story or sentences.

Math:  Chapter Two, Lesson2; Worksheet 2.2

Friday

Go to church

Reading Log is due Tuesday;  School closed Monday for Labor Day

Monday

Spelling – pretest (test will be Wednesday)

Math – pages 4 and 5, worksheet 1.2

Prepare for Science Quiz on Thursday – review chapter 1, lesson 2

Reading Log due next Monday, August 30

Tuesday

Spelling – pretest (test will be Wednesday)

Math – pages 6 and 7, worksheet 1.3

Wednesday

Spelling List 2 – Write each work three times in cursive

Math – pages 7 and 8, worksheet 1.4

Thursday

Spelling – Write poem, story or sentences using each work from Spelling List 2. 

Math – pages 9 and 10, worksheet 1.5

August 15, 2010

Dear Parents:

What I expect from the school year 2010-2011 is to have the best prepared third-graders ever, thanks, to Ms. Maines and their pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, first grade and special subject teachers.

My goal is to be a caring and effective teacher who will keep the class excited about learning through motivating and interesting lessons. In my view, the roles of teacher also include: facilitator, arbitrator, supporter and friend.

I expect that maintaining a well organized and calm classroom in light of the eight-year-old’s outgoing, lively and evaluative manner will be a great challenge. I will always try to manage my class with respect and maintain a sense of humor.

The students will be expected to strive for their goals and dreams. Through encouragement to learn, my role will be to be help my students discover new interests, set new goals and recognize their potential.

It is my hope that morals and ethical standards instilled in these third-graders by a Roman Catholic education will serve them as it has served me since my years as a student at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School.

In 1960 I was an eighth grade graduate of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School. From there, I continued my education at Rocky Mount Senior High, graduating in 1964.

I am a 1969 graduate of East Carolina University with a B.S. in Art Education. My graduate studies began at East Carolina University, continued at Peabody College (Vanderbilt University) and on to Hunter College, City University of New York, where a Master in Fine Arts was conferred in 1984.

Since 2000 I have taken a total of 48 semester hours, mostly at ECU, but also at Nash Community College, Edgecombe Community College, and North Carolina Wesleyan College, and I am fully accredited and certified in Elementary Education and Art.
My teacher experience includes:

• Two years as a public school art teacher (first through ninth grades) in Greenville, North Carolina School System;
• Two years as a public school art teacher at Wilmington Massachusetts High School;
• Two years as a Graduate Teacher Fellow at ECU and a semester with Greene County, North Carolina Parks and Recreation Department;
• This year marks my eleventh consecutive year as Third Grade Teacher at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School.

Please feel free to contact me at the school if you have any questions I can answer for you regarding my credentials or our third grade curriculum. My wife, Amy, and I were thrilled by the seven wonderful years of religious and academic education our son, Jesse, received at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School.

Mike Brake
Third Grade Teacher
School phone number 252-972-1971

Each week the class will follow the same routine for spelling. Spelling words are from the word study texts and selected words from the social studies, math, science and religion lessons being studied.

I will provide a printed list of words for your student each week. The list will go home with your student on Wednesday each week. Please hang onto the list; it makes great refrigerator decoration!

Wednesday night the homework will be for your student to write each spelling word three times, in cursive. This homework will be checked on Thursday.

Thursday night the homework assignment for your student is to write a poem, a story, or sentences (in cursive) with the spelling words. Please encourage your child to be creative and have fun with this process. This homework will be checked on Friday.

The following Monday night for homework, you are to call out the words to your child and have them write them (in cursive) for you. If your child misspells a word, please have them practice writing that word three times. Practice does make perfect!! Again, this homework will be checked the following day.

Tuesday night homework is the same as Monday. This homework will be checked on Wednesday before the spelling test is given.

Wednesday will be the spelling test day, and the new list for the following week will come home that Wednesday night in the “Wednesday Folders.”

Don’t worry that cursive writing may be new or that your student may be rusty, just plunge in and forge ahead!

Thank you for being your child’s first and best teacher!!

-Mr. Brake