3rd Grade Newsletter
October 18 - 22, 2021
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Thank you so much for signing up for our Fall Parent Conferences on our Signup Genius. It was so nice to talk to you about your child. If you ever have a question, remember we are just an email away.
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. mail and sign up. We can do a WebEx or a phone conference.
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!
Important Dates to Remember:
October 15: Running Club begins after school
October 25th: Spirit Night at MOOYAH Burger
October 25th - 29th: Red Ribbon Week
October 29: Story Book Character Day
November 5th - 12th: PTA's FAMOUS SILENT AUCTION
Message from Mrs. Vencill...
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.
Messages from Mrs. Irwin...
Please click here to read about our Story Book Pumpkin Patch. The Pumpkin Patch will be located in the library. If you have any questions, please reach out to Mrs. Irwin at: meg.irwin@gcisd.net
Story Book Character Day: October 29th. Students may dress up as a book character and hold a copy of the book! Please click here for more information.
Reading:
This week we have been working on the following:
learning reading strategies to comprehend text
took our District TEKS check in both reading and social studies (this is a check-point to help teachers decide which TEKS to continue to review/reteach-these are not grades.)
Next week we will:
begin Unit 2 on identifying and analyzing Poems
identify the use of literary devices including first or third person point of view
*Please look for Guided Readers and Homework in your child's Reading Homework Folder next week. Homework is due on Friday.
Math:
This week we have been working on the following:
Place Value :
Reviewing for our Place Value District Assessment.
Updating our Goal Folders.
Next, week's focus:
Pictographs
Graph Vocabulary
Multiplying by 0 and 1
Attention:
Students will have a different type of homework this week. It will still be a paper, but it will look different. Part of their homework is for them to read the numbers on their paper to you. Some are having trouble reading 5 and 6 digit numbers correctly. Homework is due by Friday.
Thank you!
Science:
In science we are in our Life Cycles Unit. We also now have living creatures we are caring for and observing... tadpoles!!
Our Main Points to learn from this Unit:
Plants and animals progress through sequential stages that include beginning, growth and development, and reproduction.
The sequence of stages through which plants and animals progress repeats from generation to generation and is called a life cycle.
Organisms undergo observable changes during their life cycles including birth, growth, development, reproduction, and death.
Some animals, such as frogs and lady beetles, pass through distinctly different life stages with very different appearances. Most plants, such as tomato plants, develop from seeds into small plants that resemble the adult form.
Grammar:
This week's focus
I can identify nouns and verbs within a sentence
I can write sentences with a noun and verb.
Writing:
Next week's focus
Poetry
Students will learning about literary devices and figurative language in reading
Students will be writing some of their own poems over the next three weeks
This week they will write a synonym diamante poem.
Spelling
Ms. Pease will be introducing short vowel words next week. Students will spend the entire week practicing writing words with short vowels. The following week (the week of Oct. 25-29), your child will come home with their spelling list for short vowel words. They will have a test over the words on Friday, Oct. 29th. The spelling list can be found in their velcro pocket inside their Reading Homework Folder.They will also have the spelling words written in their daily planners.
Spelling homework will not be assigned. Students will be practicing the words during class, but you may practice at home too if you so choose.
We heard a few TIgers had an October birthday! Let's wish them the best birthday EVER!
0ctober Birthdays
20th: Hadlee
22nd Nate
26th Kenzie
27th: Sabrina
WISH LISTS
Three of our biggest needs right now are
Paper plates, plastic bowls, spoons: For science experiments. They will be used throughout the year! Thank you! Mrs. Wierz
Magic Erasers (we use these for erasing on our dry-erase boards)-Ms. Pease
Glitter Markers and Playdough for Word Work tools. Mrs. Lee
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
