Room 201

December 15, 2023

Third Grade Families,

Happy Friday! Only four more school days until Winter Break! The third grade holiday pizza party will take place on Wednesday, December 20th @ 12PM…please send in $10 for pizza, chips, drink, and sweet treats!!!!

The Winter program today was amazing!!!!  The third grade students had a wonderful performance!!!  Way to go!  One of the best ever!!!!!!!

PLEASE make sure your child knows their after school program schedule.  Students are to go directly to the multi-purpose room for their snack.  

Thanks for the support at home and at school. Have a safe and wonderful week!

Ms. Andrade & Mr. Graves

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Language Arts 

• Celebrations around the World! (Non-Fiction Book Report)

• Reading Learning Pathway (i-ready)

• Epic Book Reports

Writing

1. Winter Creative Writing (Poems and stories)

2. Staying on topic and showing details, not just telling.

3. Continue cursive…Uppercase letters! 

4. December Writing prompts…5-6 complete sentences on topic.

Social Studies

Map and Graph Skills: Timelines

Continue this lesson….

Chapter 3 Building a Nation

Essential Question: What were the causes and effects of European explorations/exploitation?

Objective… Identify reasons for exploration by European explorers

Academic Vocabulary explorer, route, motive, claim 

Math

• Review & Practice multiplication and division. 

• Freckle

• Math Centers

Science

Cont. Chapter 5: Why does the train change from floating to falling?

Focus: Investigating Unbalanced Forces

• Magnetic force decreases as the distance between the objects involved increases.

• The force of gravity also decreases as distance increases, though this is not possible to observe without getting far from Earth into outer space.

SEL/Community Building-

• Spirit Week Participation…Winter Pizza Party!

Looking Ahead…

Homework next week…

DRESS UP FOR MURRAY SPIRIT WEEK!

Math Homework

• No Homework! Dress up for spirit Week

Quick Notes:

• Murray Spirit Week, December 18th-21st 

  • Monday- Holiday hat and hair day!

  • Tuesday- Colors of the season!

  • Wednesday- Ugly Sweater Day!

  • Thursday- Pajama Day or Holiday Bling (headbands, necklaces)

• Holiday Pizza Party, December 20th, 12PM $10

• December 21st Last Day for Students

• December 22nd, End of 2nd Quarter

• Be ready to line up at 8:45am

• Breakfast is from 8:45-8:55am 

• Ms. Andrade will be sending home old math workbooks with the students next week, in case you wish for your student to practice their math skills over break. Working from the books is not required.

Hello Third Grade Families,

My name is Mr. Brian Graves and I'm the third grade Language Arts and Social Studies teacher...this will be my 19th year at Murray and 26th year of teaching.  Prior to Murray, I taught in the metro Detroit area. I am very excited about teaching this year and working with Ms. Andrade! 

Here are a few fun things for you and your child to know about me:

1) I love language arts and social studies.  Students need to be independent readers and thinkers. They also need to learn about the past and present, so they can be successful in the future.

2) I love working out and going to the gym! I usually go in the morning before school, or right after school! Exercise is fun!!!!!

3)  I love Michigan! I grew up in a small town and my family lives all over the Great Lake State!  

4) I am only your child's teacher for nine months, but hopefully will make an impact to last a lifetime.  I truly believe in a positive parent-student-teacher relationship and strongly believe in a balanced school-work-home life! Let's  have a fun third grade adventure! 

If you'd like to contact me please email to bigraves@cps.edu

Thanks,

Mr. Graves