February 2 - Week 23

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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 6: ELA Field Test (Closed Campus to Visitors) and Go Red Day
February 13: Valentine's Day Party 1:15-2:00
February 16: Student Holiday
March 4: Math Benchmark Test (Closed Campus to Visitors)
March 5: Spring Pictures
March 10: Open House

Reading and math homework is due by Friday. The optional test review for math will be due on Tuesday, February 3rd. 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 starting our Narrative Nonfiction unit where we study biographies.

Ask your child what a biography is.

Writer's Workshop:

This week, the students will begin our research unit. The students will learn the process of researching, reading, collecting notes, and combining information to write about their findings.

Ask your child who was Jackie Robinson, and what are some of his greatest achievements.

Skills Block:

This week, students will be working with prefixes and how they change the meaning of the original word. Prefixes will include: im -into, non/dis/in - not or non, pre - before. In grammar, students will be using the correct coordinating conjunction to combing two predicates. Additionally, students will reviewing adjectives. Please follow the links below to review adjectives at home if need be.

Video - School House Rock

Anchor Chart - Adjectives

Ask your child the difference between complete and incomplete - why does this word now have a new meaning? What changed it?

Math:

Students will determine the area of rectangles and composite figures. The module 7 check up will be on Tuesday, February 3rd. The optional test review is due on Tuesday, February 3rd.

Ask your child how to find the area of a rectangle.

Science:

This week we will begin Experience 3 in Topic 5, Fast Changes on Earth. Students will discuss volcanoes, earthquakes, and landslides specifically and how they rapidly change earth's surface.

Topic 5, Experience 1 Weather Topic 5, Experience 2 Slow Changes on Earth Topic 5, Experience 3 Fast Changes on Earth

Ask your child about how volcanoes, earthquakes, and landslides can make rapid changes to the Earth's surface.

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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