3rd Grade Newsletter

November 1 - 5, 2021


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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.


During November, December, and January we will be studying celebrations based on TEKS 10A and 10B. In an attempt to honor a variety of celebrations, we would like to know specific celebrations that are important to your family throughout the year. Please share those celebrations below.

Please click on this link to respond to the celebrations your family celebrates. Thank you!


Celebrations Survey


Important Dates to Remember:

~November 4: Celebrate Diwali: Wear

Bright Colors

~November 5: Run Club

~November 5th - 12th: PTA's FAMOUS

SILENT AUCTION

~November 9: Picture Retake Day

~ November 11: 3rd Grade Veterans'

Day Program @9:15

~ November 22-26: Thanksgiving Break



Message from Mrs. Vencill...

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3rd and 4th grade Veterans Day Celebration: Thursday, November 11 at 8:30 a.m. Due to COVID safety guidelines, our Veterans Day program will take place outside this year. 4th graders will perform from 8:30-8:55 a.m. and 3rd graders will perform from 9:15-9:40 a.m. Parents are invited to attend their grade level performance and students from other grade levels will watch from their classrooms. In the event of bad weather, we will move the performance to Friday, November 12. If you know a veteran who would like to speak at our Veterans Day Celebration, please let me know as soon as possible.

If you know someone who served in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines or Coast Guard,you are invited to add their photo to our Wall of Honor slideshow. You can either email your picture to Mrs. Vencill (bethany.vencill@gcisd.net) or send your photo to school with your student. Please label the picture with your student’s name, the veteran’s name and the branch of the military they served in. These pictures will be returned to you after Veterans Day. If you added a picture to our slideshow last year, I will add those photos again this year.



Reading:

This week we have been working on the following:

  • identifying and analyzing Poems

  • identify examples of metaphors.

Next week we will:

  • continue our unit on poetry and figurative language

  • identify alliteration, hyperbole and onomatopoeia.

  • analyze and read the poem "Batter Up"

*Next week's reading homework will be another collection of three poems. Students will be reading these poems for homework and will respond to the questions about each poem. There will not be a guided reader sent home. Your child is to read their library books in addition to reading the poems. Homework is due on Friday, November 5th.



Math:

This week we have been working on the following:

Bar Graphs :

  • We surveyed our classmates on a variety of topics. Then, made frequency charts, pictographs, and bar graphs with the data.

  • We Interpret data from out graphs

  • We updating our Goal Folders.

  • We started using Moby Max for fact fluency.

  • We took our 1st multiplication Fun Facts Check

Next, week's focus:

  • Dot Plot Graphs

  • Bar Graphs

  • Multiplying by 2

  • Our 2nd Fun Facts for Multiplication will be on Tuesday!

  • Number Patterns

  • Strip Diagrams

  • Reviewing rounding to the nearest 10 and 100.


Remember: Homework is due on Friday, but can come back any day prior to Friday. Thank you so much for helping them with this responsibility.






Science:

In science we are beginning our Structures and Functions Unit.

Our Main Points to learn from this Unit:

  • The structures of plants and animals are adapted to particular environments.

  • Structures of some animals, such as the blubber of seals or the fur of rabbits, help some animals survive in cold weather conditions.

  • Structures, such as the waxy coating of a cactus or the presence of spines instead of leaves, help some plants survive in hot, dry conditions.

Grammar:

This week's focus

  • I can use the word "or" to show choices in my sentences.



Writing:

Next week's focus

  • Poetry

  • Our Tigers will be writing poems over the next few weeks. We will be focusing and writing a Riddle poem during this coming week.


Spelling

This past week, we practiced our spelling words completing a few Spelling Menu activities.

Next week, students will be introduced to long vowel sound words. We will spend next week learning rules and reviewing long vowel sounds within words. Students will. not get their spelling list of words until Monday, Nov. 8th.







We heard a few TIgers had an October birthday! Let's wish them the best birthday EVER!

November Birthdays

Aiden 9th

Presley 15th

Sadie 15th



WISH LISTS

Three of our biggest needs right now are:

  1. Mrs. Lee needs heavy sheet protectors. The Target brand is PERFECT! :)


Thank you, thank you, thank you!