March 2- Week 27

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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. 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 finishing up our Argumentative Text unit. Students will learn about crafting reasons to persuade others while considering their audience.

Ask your child what reasons they would give to convince a friend to have a sleepover versus you.

Writer's Workshop:

This week, the students will continue to practice writing an argumentative essay by stating their claim and then using evidence/reasons to support their claim.

Ask your child what are the 4 most important parts to an argumentative essay. (Claim, Evidence/Reasons, Audience, and Call to Action!)

Skills Block:

This week, students will be working with abbreviations and prepositions/propositional phrases. Below is a video and anchor chart to help with prepositional phrases.

Video - PBS Learning Video - How to Use Prepositions

Anchor Chart - Prepositions & Prepositional Phrases Charts

Ask your child what to words are from Dr., Sun., Mr., Mrs., Ms., Aug., min., in., or ft.

Ask your child what is the preposition in the following sentence: Her book was hidden under her jacket.

Math:

This week, students will identify equivalent fractions and compare fractions on a number line.

Ask your child what an equivalent fraction for three-fourths is.

Science:

This week we will begin the 2nd Experience in Topic 6 (Energy in Ecosystems). We will discuss different types of ecosystems and also the food chains that are within each ecosystem. Students will be able to explain how energy flows within each food chain and how changes could affect all the parts within it.

Topic 6, Experience 1: Organisms in Ecosystems Topic 6, Experience 2: Energy in Ecosystems

Ask your child about an example of a food chain within the ocean or savanna.

Social Studies:

Students will be learning renewable and nonrenewable resources, and how humans make use of these resources.

Ask your child what the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources are.

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