January 7- Week 19

News

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

December 19-January 6: Student Holiday
January 7: 3rd Nine Weeks Begins
January 12: Math MAP Test
January 19: Student Holiday

There isn't any homework this week. 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 learning about folktales, fairytales, legends, and myths.

Ask your child to explain the difference between a fairytale and a folktale.

Writer's Workshop:

This week, the students will be writing short constructed responses (SCR) in response to a literary text.

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

Skills Block:

This week, students will have another round of cursive writing practice and work with the soft C and hard G spelling rule.

Ask your child to identify if the following words make the soft C (s sound) or hard G (j sound).

face, cake, shook, mice, twice, coast, place, nice
dog, giraffe, page, stage, brag, pig, germ

Math:

This week, students will learn the count down strategy to solve multiplication facts of nine and the half, half, half strategy to divide by eight. Students should practice multiplication facts of nine. They will be assessed on their automaticity of these facts on Friday, January 16.

Ask your child to explain to you the count down strategy.

Science:

This week, we will continue our 5th topic and begin Experience 2. This experience will focus on slow changes that occur on Earth including weathering, decomposition, and soil formation.

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

Ask your child about what weathering is and how it is a slow change on earth.

Social Studies:

This week, students will be taking a break from Social Studies due to the short week.

Ask your child what they think they will learn about next in Social Studies.

Other Information:

Report abuse