August 24 - Week 3

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 25: Reading MAP Test
September 7: Student Holiday
September 10: Yearbook Picture Day
September 15: Cox Culture Night 5:00-6:30

Students are encouraged to practice multiplication facts of two. Students are also 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 continue generating ideas for personal narratives. Students will begin planning out their small moment stories and adding details along the way.

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

Skills Block:

This week, students will finish our study of consonant digraphs (blends). The students will also be learning about common and proper nouns and how to use capitalization for proper nouns.

Ask your child what is the difference between a common and proper noun.

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 also focus multiplication facts of two, five, and ten. On Thursday, students will bring home flashcards to practice multiplication facts of two. Students need to know these multiplication facts in a "snap." We will assess fluency of the multiplication facts of two on Friday, September 3rd.

Lessons covered this week: 1-7, 1-8, 1-9, 2-1, and 2-2.

Ask your child how they can use multiplication to help them solve division problems and how does doubling help them when multiplying by two.

Click on this link for information on ways to help your child with topic one and two at home. We will begin topic two on Thursday.

Science:

This week, we will be learning about properties of matter. We will discuss how to describe matter by color, size, shape, as well as using the five senses. We will also uses forms of measurement to describe the size of the matter. Each time we start a new topic, we will attach the School to Home letter so that you can see exactly what we will be learning about. Students will also bring home a copy of the Read About It that is linked below.

Topic 1 School to Home Letter Topic 1, Exp. 1 Properties of Matter

Ask your child about how they can decribe matter.

Social Studies:

This week, students will be learning about the characteristics of good citizenship.

Ask your child what good citizens do.

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