January 20 - Week 21

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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

January 19: Student Holiday
January 21: Reading Benchmark - Campus is Closed to Visitors
January 29: Class Pictures
February 13: Valentine's Day Party

Reading and math homework is due by Friday. The optional test review for math will be due on January 28th. 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 wrapping up our drama unit and taking a STAAR Benchmark test on Wednesday, January 21st.

Be sure that your child gets a good night's rest on Tuesday night and a good healthy breakfast Wednesday morning.

Writer's Workshop:

This week, the students will be editing and publishing their ECR (extended constructed response) in response to a literary text.

Ask your child what is an "ECR" and what parts of the RACES strategy does it include?

Skills Block:

This week, students will be working vowel patterns ea and ie. In grammar, students will be practicing adding commas in a series.

PBS Video - Commas in a Series

Ask your child to create a list for the house (grocery list, chores, day to day to do list, etc.) and have them write it down using commas correctly.

Math:

Students will learn how to analyze data on a bar graph, dot plot, and a pictograph. On Thursday, the optional test review will be sent home. It will be due on Wednesday, January 28. The module 7 check up will be on Wednesday, January 28.

Ask your child to explain the difference between a bar graph, dot plot, and pictograph.

Science:

This week, we will finish our Mini ADI (Arguement Driven Inquiry) where we will revisit our decomposing pumpkin investigation. We will discuss which environmental factor impacts decomposition the most: air, soil, or water? Students will be researching articles about the topic and work together to make a claim and support with evidence.

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

Ask your child about the progress of our decomposing pumpkins. Does the air, water, or soil impact the decomposition the most?

Social Studies:

This week, students will be learning about national hero Martin Luther King Jr.

Ask your child some facts about Martin Luther King Jr.

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