It’s time to sink your teeth into your child’s progress! Parent-teacher conferences will be held on most Wednesdays and Thursdays from 2:15–2:55. We’ll meet in person, but if a phone call works better, just let us know. We can’t wait to chat with our awesome Gator families!

PLEASE send headphones with your student. The ones we had in the classroom are now mostly broken, and it’s important that each child has their own pair. Students use headphones every day in all three of their classes, so having them readily available is essential for their learning. Thank you for helping us make sure your child is prepared and successful each day!

- Please remind your child to take proper care of their Chromebook: always carry it with two hands, keep it away from food, drinks, and younger siblings, and store it safely when not in use. Each night, ensure there is a designated place to charge the Chromebook and double-check that it makes it into your child’s backpack each morning. While we will reinforce that caring for the device is the student’s responsibility, your support during these first few weeks is essential.

Additionally, please send in wired earbuds or headphones that plug into your child’s Chromebook. If possible, label them with your child’s name.

Last week, our class stepped into the world of fairy tale dramas! We explored three favorites — Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Frog Prince, and Cinderella — in play form. Students learned about the elements of drama like dialogue, stage directions, and scenes, while also identifying literary elements such as character, setting, and plot. We even spotted some figurative language sprinkled throughout the scripts! It was a lively week of reading, acting, and discovering how familiar tales can shine in a whole new way! 

This week students will be learning...

Reading- This week in Reading, our readers are diving into fractured fairy tales—fun twists on classic stories that keep us guessing! As we read, we will be practicing how to monitor and clarify our understanding and explore literary elements like characters, setting, and plot. We will also look at the elements of drama by comparing how stories can be told through plays, and we will discussed how authors use these details to help us discover the theme or message of the story. It will be a magical mix of reading, thinking, and a little fairy-tale fun! 

Grammar-This week, we are getting up close and personal with nouns! We’ll practice changing y to i, adding -s or -es, and even tackling irregular plural nouns (TEKS 3.11Diii). Watch out — our nouns are multiplying and getting fancy! 

***Multiplication Quiz Thursday (10/30)***

***0's and 1's fact fluency quiz Thursday (10/30)***

Last week we continued our learning about how to represent multiplication story problems using equal groups, repeated addition, arrays and area models

This week the students will be learning...

• I can describe multiplication as a comparison (TEKS 3.5C) 

• I can use the commutative property to solve multiplication story problems. (TEKS 3.4G)

• I can use the associative property to solve multiplication problems. (TEKS 3.4G)

• I can multiply by 0 and 1.

To help your child at home with these skills-

• Create word problems involving up multiplication with one digit numbers.

• Practice their multiplication facts/ skip counting. 

• Work in independent practice workbook on pages 45-70.

The images below are some ideas of math practice to do at home (choice board) and examples of these types of representations.

 3.9C CITIZENSHIP. 

  The student understands the characteristics of good citizenship as exemplified by historical and contemporary figures and organizations. The student is expected to identify and describe individual acts of civic responsibility, including obeying laws, serving and improving the community, serving on a jury, and voting.

Studies Weekly Newspaper and App 

Week 11 Exemplifying Good Citizenship

3.12B Organisms and environments. The student describes patterns, cycles, systems, and relationships within environments. The student is expected to identify and describe the flow of energy in a food chain and predict how changes in a food chain such as removal of frogs from a pond or bees from a field affect the ecosystem.

McGraw Hill App. 

Chapter 9 Lesson 1 Energy Flow in Food Chains.