Dear Parents,
We are in the last half of quarter four! Your scholars completed their Reading STAAR this past Tuesday, and we are proud of so many of them for taking their time and putting forward their best effort!
FRIDAY is a school holiday for Battle of the Flowers. This will be a four day week.
Your students needed Little Prince last week so please send your student's copy to school with them on Monday. There are multiple translations for this book. Here is the ISBN for the correct translation: 978-0156012195
Here are a few places to order if your student still needs their book.
As a reminder, we have lessons all the way until the dismissal bell. When appointments need to be made please check your student's class schedule and try not to have them miss the same subject multiple times in a row. The best time to schedule appointments would be from lunch (11:00am) through the end of our reading block time (1:55pm) This is almost a 3 hour window where the students would only be missing Spalding instruction. Unlike other subjects, Spalding does not have daily grades, other than the participation grade, taken during the lesson. Thank you so much for the increase of partnering with teachers that we have seen this quarter!
When it comes to homework, specifically math, please make sure your students are doing all the work. If they don't understand, please see the suggestions below in the math section to try and help; however, do not tell them how to do the problem. When students come to class with all the answers correct, that tells the teacher they understood the problems. We need to see the errors they are making in order to help with gaps in comprehension. If the student is being made to erase and correct all their answers at home, it does not help them to work independently, and it does not accurately portray their understanding to their teacher.
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:
- Volume and 3D cubes
- Fraction Review
- 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 tried 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.
- Worksheet HW: Monday - Wednesay
- Fraction Quiz: Thursday
Spalding -
- 10 phonograms & 10 words: Mon-Tues
- 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 Thursday.
Grammar/Writing -
- Writing different types of poetry
- Writing extended responses
- We will continue The Little Prince
- We will be focusing on story elements and vocabulary!
- Force and motion
- States of Matter Quiz - Tuesday
- Thirteen Colony Map Quiz Thursday!
- 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!
Battle of the Flowers (No School)
April 28
Math STAAR
May 2nd
Spring Concert
May 5th