February 17 - Week 25

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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

February 16: Student Holiday
March 4: Math Benchmark Test (Closed Campus to Visitors)
March 5: Spring Pictures
March 10: Open House & Fifth Grade Science Benchmark (Closed Campus to Visitors)
March 13: Early Release at 11:45
March 14-24: Spring Break
March 25: Fourth Nine Weeks Begins

Reading and math homework is due by Friday. Students are encouraged to read every night and review multiplication, addition, and subtraction facts for automaticity.

What We Are Learning in Third Grade

Reader's Workshop:

This week, students will be beginning our Document-Based Question (DBQ) project on Harriet Tubman! We will be exploring her background, the context of the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, and slavery, as well as all of the important roles she played throughout her life.

Ask your child what they think Harriet Tubman's greatest achievement was.

Writer's Workshop:

This week, the students will be writing an ECR (Extended Constructed Response) about Harriet Tubman's greatest achievement.

Ask your child who was Harriet Tubman, and what are some of her greatest achievements.

Skills Block:

This week, students will be working with homophones (words that have the same sound, but are spelt differently with a different meaning) and adverbs (to tell time/when). Please follow the links below to review at home if need be.

Video - Khan Academy Video - Intro to Adverbs

Anchor Chart - Adverbs Charts

Ask your child the difference between bear and bare, knew and new, know and no, and see and sea. Ask your child what is the adverb in the following sentence: Finally, the a reply came.

Math:

This week, students will find the products of the remaining multiplication facts. Students will also use addition and multiplication strategies to complete input/output tables. Strip diagrams will be used to solve multiplication and division problems. Students should practice multiplication facts of six daily. Students will be assessed on multiplication facts of six on Thursday, February 26th.

Ask your child to explain how to use the build up strategy to multiply by six.

Science:

This week we will complete Experience 4 in Topic 5, Natural Resources and Conservation. Then, we will spend time reviewing what we have learned in Topic 5, Experiences 2, 3, and 4. We sent home a study guide with important vocabulary that can be used to review at home as well. It is also attached below along with the articles from each experience. Our summative test will be on Thursday, February 19th.

Topic 5, Experience 2 Slow Changes on Earth Topic 5, Experience 3 Fast Changes on Earth

Topic 5, Experience 4 Natural Resources and Conservation Topic 5 Study Guide

Ask your child about ways that natural resources are used in agriculture and transportation.

Social Studies:

For the next few weeks, Social Studies will be intertwined with Reading and Writing while we learn about Narrative Nonfiction and our upcoming DBQ project about Harriet Tubman.

Ask your child what they have learned about Narrative Nonfiction.

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