August 17- Week 2

News

Medical Notes

If your child has a medical note that prevents them from playing at recess, please make sure that you also inform P.E. and music teachers. Students move a lot in both of these classes and teachers need to know of any limitations.

Snacks

Students may bring a dry, quick, and healthy snack. Good suggestions are apple slices, carrot sticks, grapes, goldfish, pretzels and granola bars. Please do not send chips, cookies, candy, anything that needs to be peeled, and anything that needs a utensil to eat for your child to have as a snack.

Water Bottles

Students may bring a filled water bottle with only clear (unflavored) water. Do not add flavor packets to the water in case of spills. Students may not bring cups with straws. Only water bottles that can securely close will be allowed.

Character Strong

Morning Drop Off

PARENTS, Please watch and follow staff directions in the morning drop off. We need you to pull all the way forward. Please do not stop at the kindergarten doors as you back up traffic. We need to keep everything flowing. We have staff on hand to assist students getting to class.

Afternoon Pick Up

Here is the link to our Safety Procedures for Afternoon Dismissal.

Illness

Please remember to follow our attendance guidelines and keep your child home when they are sick. While we value your child’s learning time in the classroom, help prevent the spread of illness and ensure the health of other students by making sure your child is fever-free for 24 hours before returning to school. Please also talk to your child about healthy habits like frequent hand washing and covering your mouth when coughing.

Important Dates

Homework

August 19: Math MAP Test
August 25: Reading MAP Test
September 7: Student Holiday
September 15: Cox Culture Night 5:00-6:30

Students are encouraged to read every night and review addition and subtraction facts for automaticity.

What We Are Learning in Third Grade

Reader's Workshop:

This week, students will be working on building the habits of a good reader.

Ask your child what some things that good readers do are.

Writer's Workshop:

This week, students will begin generating ideas for personal narratives. We will be decorating our writing folders on Friday the 21st. Students may bring fun stickers or photos that they would like to stick to the cover of their folder.

Ask your child what "small moment" ideas they have for their personal narratives.

Skills Block:

This week, students will continue reviewing lower case cursive letters. Additionally, students will review identifying words with consonant blends.

Math:

This week, students will determine the number of objects in each group when a set of objects is partitioned into equal shares or a set of objects is shared equally. Students will take the beginning of the year math MAP test on Wednesday.

Ask your child how they can use multiplication to help them solve division problems.

Click on this link for information on ways to help your child with topic one at home.

Science:

This week, we will be reviewing reoccuring themes within science such as how to collect and analyze data, form solutions, and commuincating explanations. We also will begin our first Topic unit which is Matter! We will start with a phenomenon and begin by learning the physical properties of mattter. Each time we start a new topic, we will attach the School to Home letter so that you can see eactly what we will be learning about.

Topic 1 School to Home Letter

Ask your child about the steps of conducting a science investigation.

Social Studies:

This week, students will be learning about rules and laws.

Ask your child the difference between a rule and a law.

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