February 9 - Week 24

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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 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 is due by Friday, February 13th. 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 complete our research on Jackie Robinson, and begin our DBQ project on Harriet Tubman.

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

Skills Block:

This week, students will be working with suffixes and how they change the meaning of the original word. Suffixes will include: -ness, -ly, and -ful. In grammar, students will reviewing adjectives, as well as identifying if an adjective is comparative or superlative (good, better, best, adding -er and -est to compare). 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 quick & quickly, happy & happiness, and play & playful - why does this word now have a new meaning? What changed it?

Math:

This week, students will find the perimeter of polygons and divide by nine. The module 8 check up will be onFriday, February 13th. The optional test review is due on Friday, February 13th.

Ask your child how to find the perimeter of a polygon.

Science:

This week we will begin Experience 4 in Topic 5, Natural Resources and Conservation. Students will discuss examples of natural resources, the way that we use them, and products that can be produced using natural resources. We will also discuss how to conserve resources using the three Rs: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

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

Topic 5, Experience 4 Natural Resources and Conservation

Ask your child about ways that they can conserve natural resources at home and at school.

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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