February 23 - Week 26

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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

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. The optional test review is also 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 Argumentative Text unit. Students will learn about what makes an argument and how evidence is important to support your claim.

Ask your child how many holes are in a straw..

Writer's Workshop:

This week, the students will be learning how to write an argumentative essay using a claim and reasons to support their opinion.

Ask your child what an argumentative essay is and how they can support their claim.

Skills Block:

This week, students will be working with contractions, and they will continue working with adverbs (to tell time/when/how). 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 what to words create the words can't, we're, you're, he'd, and wasn't.

Ask your child what is the adverb in the following sentence: I saw the dog run quickly.

Math:

This week, students will compare fractions and identify equivalent fractions. The optional test review is due by Friday, February 27. The module 9 check up will be on Friday, February 27. Students should practice multiplication facts of six daily. Students will be assessed on multiplication facts of six on Thursday, February 26th.

Ask your child what an equivalent fraction for one-half is.

Science:

This week we will continue our 1st Experience in Topic 6 (Organisms in Ecosystems). We began talking about migration of butterflies and how plants also use their parts to impact their life cycle last week. We will continue by discussing the meaning of migration, hibernation, and dormancy. Students will also learn examples of animals and plants that match each one of those as well. We will have a summative test on Thursday that will cover just Experience 1. The article we will send home is also attached below.

Topic 6, Experience 1: Organisms in Ecosystems

Ask your child about animals that hibernate and migrate.

Social Studies:

Students will be learning about climate, weather, and how humans adapt to these conditions.

Ask your child what the difference between climate and weather is.

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