November 10 - Week 14

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

November 18: Field trip to NISD Kelly Box AG Center
November 19: Thanksgiving Picnic
November 24-28: Student Holiday
December 18: Early Release at 11:45
December 19-January 6: Student Holiday

Math homework is due by Friday, November 14th. The optional test review is due by Thursday, November 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 begin learning about literal and figurative language.

Ask your child to explain the difference between a metaphor and a simile.

Writer's Workshop:

This week, students will begin writing their chapters for their expert topic.

Ask your child what chapters they are working on this week.

Skills Block:

This week, students will continue multisyllable words with final stable syllables (tion, tle, & ble), and continue working with compound sentences. Students will begin with creating simple sentences with independent clauses.

Ask your child to find words in their reading or words they already know that have tion, tle, or ble at the end of them. Additionally, have your child practice sharing with you or writing a simple sentence with a verb and a noun.

Math:

This week, students will use attributes to recognize rhombuses, parallelograms, trapezoids, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals. Students will also be introduced to the double, double, double strategy to solve multiplication facts of eight. On Thursday, students will be tested on module 5. The optional test review is due on Thursday, November 13.

Ask your child to explain the difference between a rectangle and a rhombus.

Science:

This week, we will begin Topic 4 which covers Earth and Space. Our first experience will investigate the orbits of the sun, Earth, and moon.

Topic 4 School to Home Letter

Ask your child how the Earth and moon orbit around the sun.

Social Studies:

This week, students will be learning about the 3 branches of government.

Ask your child what the judicial branch does.

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