Our holiday tradition is back! All stockings were donated (THANK YOU)—now we just need your help to fill them.

If you’d like your child to join, please send small, nut-free gifts for your child’s homeroom by Monday, December 15th.

• Hendrickson-19 students

• Robey-18 students

• Walker-20 Students

Gift ideas: pencils, erasers, party favors, bookmarks, small toys, candy.

Students will open their stockings together during our class holiday party on Wednesday, December 17th.

Thank you for helping make this season magical! ❄️❤️

A parent has kindly invited all our 3rd grade Glenhope Gators and their families to Cookies with Santa on December 13th from 2–5 PM. Come enjoy some holiday treats and festive fun — we hope to see you there!

Gator families, the holiday season is almost here, and we’re ready for all the festive fun! To make crafts and special classroom activities extra magical, we’ve put together a holiday wish list.

Any donation, big or small, helps make this season sparkle for our Gators! 💚

Amazon Holiday Activity Wish List

We love seeing our students excited about their favorite toys and fidgets — but we’ve noticed they’re starting to take over our classrooms like tiny, colorful invaders. 

Starting this week, toys and fidgets should stay at home unless a student has a fidget accommodation listed in their IEP or 504 Plan. For students who do have approved fidgets, please make sure they:

• Fit in one hand

• Can be used quietly while working

This helps us keep our classrooms focused, calm, and ready for learning. Thank you for your support! 💚🐊

- 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 we wrapped up The Chocolate Touch and worked together to determine the theme of the story. We also completed our i-Ready diagnostics, and our students showed amazing growth—we’re so proud of their hard work! 

This week students will be learning...

Reading- This week in Reading, we’ll be diving into a variety of holiday books from our amazing librarian, Mrs. Arnold! As we read, students will practice making and confirming predictions (TEKS 3.6A, 3.6C, 3.7C, 3.7E) and continue to explore figurative language, such as similes, metaphors, and personification (TEKS 3.3B, 3.6D, 3.6F, 3.7C, 3.7F, 3.7G, 3.10D). We’ll also look closely at text structure to understand how authors organize their ideas (TEKS 3.6G, 3.7C, 3.7G, 3.9Diii, 3.10B) and compare points of view to see how different narrators shape a story (TEKS 3.7C, 3.7F, 3.7G, 3.10E).

Grammar-This week, students will practice verbs in the past, present, and future (TEKS 3.11Dii). They will identify different verb tenses in sentences and use them correctly in their own writing to make their stories clear and accurate. 

***8's fact fluency quiz Thursday (12/11)***

Monday we will be doing our IREADY MOY diagnostic

Last week we began our Unit 4 Multiplication and Division Application.

This week the students will be learning...

• I can use a problem-solving model to solve multiplication and division problems.  (TEKS 3.4K)

• II can represent and solve one-step multiplication and division problems. .(TEKS 3.5B)

• I can represent and solve one- and two-step multiplication and division problems.(TEKS 3.5D)

To help your child at home with these skills-

• Create word problems involving up multiplication with two digit multiplied by one digit.

• Practice their multiplication facts/ skip counting. (Students can log onto canvas for a link to our songs and online flashcards)

• Work in independent practice workbook on pages.

• Practice division and multiplication multi-step story problems.

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

3.10A CULTURE. The student understands ethnic and/or cultural celebrations of the local community and other communities. The student is expected to explain the significance of various ethnic and/or cultural celebrations in the local community, and other communities.

Studies Weekly Newspaper and App 

Week 20 Decision Making

*Next week we review Chapters 8 and 9 (objectives below) for our district TEKS Check Assessment on Friday. Students can use McGraw Hill App and Science Journal to Review at home.

3.12 A,B,C,&D Organisms and environments. The student describes patterns, cycles, systems, and relationships within environments. 

A-explain how temperature and precipitation affect animal growth and behavior through migration and hibernation and plant responses through dormancy.

B-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.

C-Describe how natural changes to the environment such as floods and droughts cause some organisms to thrive and others to perish or move to new locations.

D-Identify fossils as evidence of past living organisms and environments, including common Texas fossils.