3rd Grade Newsletter
January 10 - January 14, 2022
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Important News.....Important News....Important News.....Important News
Testing for GT Services and/or the ASPIRE Academy
Kindergarten through 5th Grade currently enrolled students may be referred and tested for GT services and/or the ASPIRE Academy during the window below:
Referral Window: January 10 - January 28
Testing Window: February 1 - February 28
GT Decision mailed on: March 28
ASPIRE Decision mailed on: April 27
Parent Inventory/Permission to Test (Scroll down to bottom of page. Link will only be LIVE during the referral window.)
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Please be sure to check your child's GREAT Tiger folder nightly. We send notes, graded papers, and homework via this folder. You can take the papers out of it nightly. Also, please initial in the day's box that you have seen their GREAT Tiger folder each night.
Play It Safe
Click below for information about the "Play it Safe" program that GCISD offers at each school. Every student must bring a signed copy back to school indicating if you DO or DO NOT want your child to attend.
Important Dates to Remember:
January 10-28: GT Services/Aspire Academy Referral Window Opens
January 17: Martin Luther King Jr. Day No School
January 22: PTA Snow Hill/Dad's Club Breakfast
January 28: Play It Safe: Please be sure you've returned your child's form back to their teacher.
Reading:
This week we have been working on the following:
learning strategies to use when reading text
We learned to annotate text to better our understanding of what we are reading by using L.A.T.C.H.
Label evidence
Add notes
Take your time
Cross out wrong choices
Highlight important information
Next week, we will:
continue to learn how to annotate text for comprehension using L.A.T.C.H.
identify plot in a story and discuss other story elements such as setting, characters, conflict, resolution using a story map
Students will receive a new guided reading book and homework assignment that is due on Friday, January 14th
Math:
This week we have been working on the following:
Division
We worked on word problems and how to look for what they are asking us to do.
We talked about the UPS√ strategy and the CUBES strategy and how they work perfectly together!
Next, week's focus will be:
Input and Output Tables
Increasing our fluency with our Fun Facts beginning with a review of our 0-5 multiplication facts and division facts
Solving one and two step word problems using different strategies to represent multiplication & and division. (arrays, strip diagrams, and equations)
Homework will resume this week and is due by Friday, January 14.
Science:
In science we are in our Forms of Energy unit.
Our Main Points to learn from this Unit:
Energy appears in different forms.
Energy is useful in our everyday lives.
Energy cannot be created or destroyed but can change from one form to another.
Grammar:
This week's focus phrase:
Use capitalization in titles.
Writing:
Next week's focus
We will finish writing our New Year Goals for different areas of their lives (both for school and out of school)
Students will work on a draft of their informational text
Students will continue to include text features such as Table of Contents, Glossary, Diagrams, Illustration with caption, etc. for their final informational writing.
Spelling:
Students will practice writing words with prefixes, such as im-/dis-/in-/non-/pre-
We will spend this week learning practicing our words in class for the spelling test on Friday, January 14th.
The spelling list will come home with your child on Monday, January 10th and can be found in your child's Reading Homework Folder (velcro pouch)
We heard a few Tigers had a December birthday! Let's wish them the best birthday EVER!
January Birthdays
Avery Kate- January 8th
Kennedy - January 10th
Ford- January 15th
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WISH LISTS
We are "good" on everything right now. Thank you so much for all you do to support us and our 3rd grade Tigers! : ) : ) : )
