3rd Grade Newsletter

November 8 - 12, 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 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 onomatopoeia, alliteration and hyperboles.

Next week we will:

  • begin a non-fiction text features unit

  • learn about the text features such as: title, table of contents, glossary, headings, photographs, captions, diagrams, tables, index

*Guided Reading Homework for next week will include a non-fiction reader with an activity associated with text-features.

Homework is due on Friday, November 12th.



Math:

This week we have been working on the following:

Dot Plots :

  • We surveyed our classmates on a variety of topics. Then, made frequency charts to help guide us in making bar graphs and dot plots.

  • We Interpreted data from our graphs

  • We updating our Goal Folders.

  • We took our 2's multiplication test this week. (or 0,1's if we haven't mastered that level yet.)

Next, week's focus:

  • Multiplying by 3

  • Making equal groups and the multiplication equation to match.

  • Reviewing addition facts through games.

  • Multiplying with a number line.

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 Food Chains unit.

Our Main Points to learn from this Unit:


  • Energy that moves through a food chain originally comes from the Sun.

  • Plants get their energy from the Sun, and animals get their energy from plants and other organisms.

  • Removal of an organism from a food chain can affect other organisms.

Grammar:

This week's focus

  • I can use a comma and the word "and" to join two sentences



Writing:

Next week's focus

  • Informational Text

  • Students will learn how to write informational text about a topic. We will be working on informational compositions over the next several weeks.


Spelling

Next week, students will practice writing their long vowel sound spelling words. We will have a test over these words on Friday, November 12th.

Your child has written their spelling words inside their planner for this week. He/She also has a copy of the spelling words in his/her velcro pocket inside the Reading Homework Folder.







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

Our biggest needs right now are:

  1. Mrs. Lee needs Lysol or Clorox wipes. We wipe down our desks 3 times a day. :)

Thank you, thank you, thank you!