Dear Parents,
I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving break and enjoyed the Winter Concert on Friday! The students sang beautifully, and they all looked amazing!
The Classroom Spelling Bee is this Thursday morning! We will be starting at 8:15am. Words Lists were sent home before Thanksgiving Break. If your student has lost their list, please reach out to their teacher to send another paper copy home.
We will be finishing the The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe this week! Our test over the book will be next week, and our first literature celebration will be Thursday, December 15th! we are still in need of some fuzzy coats and/or blankets for the wardrobe! Students will not be wearing these. They will be hung in the wardrobe for students to walk through into Narnia!
Please see below for information about 3rd grade's weekly events, traffic reminders, & Save the Dates.
Third grade is continuing Typing Club this week Your student has the option to continue the lessons at home, but it is not a requirement. They will be coming home with their username and website information in their agendas.
What your students can expect this week:
- Current Unit: Division & Multiplication w/ 8's & 9's
- Multiplying 2-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers
- 2-step word problems - Students may need some help with these. Please don't tell them how to solve the problem, but ask them:
- What do you know?
- What are you being asked to find?
- What might you need to find first?
- Have you drawn a bar model or picture to represent the problem?
- What have you tri4ed already? What else can you try?
- Remember: Homework should only take 25 min of working hard. if your student is still struggling at the end of the 25 min, please sign off to let the teacher know. Please do not help them solve it correctly by telling them what to do.
- Workbook HW: Mon-Thurs.
- Unit Assessment - Friday
- Next Week: Review of telling, adding, and subtracting time!
Spalding -
- 10 phonograms & 10 words: Monday-Tuesday
- Homework Mon- Tues: Write words 2x. 1x w/ syllabication and markings, 1x regularly.
- 20 word review: Wednesday
- Homework Wed: Write all 20 words 1x
- 20 word & 10 phonogram test Friday.
- Next week follows the same pattern.
Grammar/Writing -
- Writing: Learning how to write a 3-point paragraph in preparation for Independent Study Project.
- Students will complete and turning their final draft on Friday for a test grade.
- Parents will basked to help edit the paragraphs for spelling errors on Wednesday evening as a homework assignment.
- Students will use their parent's corrections for their final draft. Spelling is part of the grade for this assignment since students should receive correct spellings from their parents and/or teachers for them to copy.
- We will finish The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe!
- We will be focusing on story elements and vocabulary!
- After Thursday, your students are more than welcome to watch the movie and compare it to the book! That would be a great comparison exercise!
- Learn about soil, weathering, erosion and deposition.
- We will continue the fall of Rome
- Students will create a study guide for their last history test of Q2. The final test over the Roman unit will be Thursday, December 15th.
- Car-line in the mornings and afternoon will get better as long we all work together to follow the designated wave times and the traffic plan that has been communicated multiple times. If you have not reviewed the traffic plan, please do so as soon as possible.
- DO NOT MOVE YOUR VEHICLE IF CHILDREN ARE WITHIN ARMS LENGTH.
- Students who arrive before 7:30 AM will be going out to recess and/or can get breakfast.
- The school day starts at 7:50 AM. Please have students to the school with enough time to be unpacked and in their seats by 7:50 AM. Students who are not un packed or present in the classroom at 7:50am will receive a tardy. 3 tardies will result in a lunch detention. Students should go directly from morning recess to their classrooms so they can unpack in time for the day to start.
- For any absences or late arrivals, contact the school AND the teacher. If you are planning to pick your student up early or arrive late due to an appointment, please inform your student's teacher with ample notice and send a doctor's note with them the next day.
- Students need to bring a water bottle daily.
- 3rd grade has snack during Literature. If you choose to, please send your student with a nutritional snack. Candy is not permitted for snacks.
- Supplies Needed:
- All students are expected to have a copy of the grade level Classics to Keep. They need this to follow along in Literature and to reread as needed. We started The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe LAST week.
- Students should be reading 20 minutes daily. Reading Logs are sent home Monday and will be a weekly homework grade. These logs are checked daily so please send to school in your student's take home folder. Students need to fill out their own reading logs.
- Parents need to sign off on the reading log that their child read 20 minutes. Parents should sign behavior charts as well. Both will be in the Take Home Folder and checked daily by the teacher for completion.
SAVE THE DATES!
Classroom Spelling Bee
Thursday, December 9th, in the morning
Family Game Night
Rescheduled for February 10th
Narnia Celebration:
December 15th, in the afternoon
Winter Break:
December 17th-January 1st
Independent Study Week - Copy of Project Packet HERE
January 2nd - January 8th
Independent Study Project Presentation Day (Due Date)
January 9th
Spelling Bee
January 19, 6:30pm