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September 8th, 2023

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Dear Third Grade Parents,

Happy Independence Day! We are proud of the hard work that our third graders have been doing. We also want to thank you for joining us in our Open House. Being part of your child’s learning experience is crucial. We would like to inform you that in Math third graders will be working on a post-assessment on Monday, Sept. 18th. If you would like to practice with them they will be taking home the Student Book that we use in class for this. Please continue to practice reading every day for 30 minutes and write the reading time in their reading log. On Monday 11th Students are invited to: Wear traditional Nicaraguan clothing Pack themselves traditional Nicaraguan food for snacks and lunch.

Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks

English Literacy

Learning Goal

Tackling more challenging texts.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

What readers & writers could be doing at home...

Readers can use these charts to support their reading work: Context Clues. Tackling hard words Why did the Author Include

Spanish Literacy

Learning Goal

Edición de narrativas personales.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Our readers will be tackling the meaning of hards words by using textual clues. They will also practice that authors sometimes use figurative language that can be confusing and that readers need to use contextual clues to make sense of these figures of speech. Los escritores editarán sus escritos enfocándose en los signos de puntuación y balanceando los diálogos con los detalles inportantes.

What readers & writers could be doing at home...

Readers can use these charts to support their reading work: Context Clues. Tackling hard words Why did the Author Include Los escritores revisarán y editarán sus narrativas personales asegurándose de tener los signos de puntuación correctamente.

Mathematics

Learning Goal

Mathematician will be introduced to Multiplication

What mathematicians are doing at school...

Mathematicians will be presenting their Unit 1 Post- Assessment, where they are going to be showing all the strategies taught involving additions and subtractions. Students will be introduce to a new unit about Multiplication where they are going to learn to apply new multiplication strategies such as arrays, equal groups, number lines and ratio tables.

What mathematicians could be doing at home...

Home Conecctions of the week:

Monday 18th: HC- 23 Pattern & Sum HC-24 Pattern & Sum
Wednesday 20th: HC-25 The Pet Store HC-26 The Pet Store

Science or Social Studies

Learning Goal

What tigers are doing at school...

Students will be working on their models and will dive in to work collaboratively. They will share their observations and will continue to work on adding the details. These young scientists will engage in four corner debate to share their ideas/information. They will be writing strong observations about the phenomena they are inquiring.

What tigers could be doing at home...

Students will continue to share their questions with parents. The students will discuss with their families what makes an observation strong. They should be able to share the essentail questions that they generated and shared in class.

Social Emotional Learning Program

Learning Goal

Discuss with students the importance of getting to know each other, and how finding commonalities and differences can help us understand and appreciate each other more.

What friends and learners are doing at school...

Play a Commonalities Game Board for each buddy pair and discuss the following questions

What did you learn about your buddy? Did you have anything surprising in common?

What friends and learners could be practicing at home...

Reflect on Which you remember most, your matches or your non-matches?

Why do we sometimes assume we don’t have things in common with each other?

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Upcoming Events

Sept. 11

Early Dismissal for Pathways/Kindergarten Students and their siblings Gate 1
(11:30 PM)

Sept. 11

Early Dismissal for Students Grades 1-5 regular gates
(12:30 PM)

Sept. 12-15

Fiestas Patrias
Holidays

Sep. 22

Feedback Folders
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Reminders

Upcoming Events:

Sep. 11th: Early dismissal at 12:30 pm
Monday, September 11th: Early dismissal day - Students can wear traditional Nicaraguan clothing. Pack themselves a traditional Nicaraguan food for lunch.
Sep. 12th - Sep. 15th: Holidays
Sep. 18th: Back to school regular classes.

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