November 4 - Week 13

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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

November 2-3: Student Holiday
November 5: Health Screening
November 6: Fall Fest 6:30 - 9:00
November 18: Thanksgiving Lunch at 12:55
November 18: Nelson, Scheerle, and Smith go to NISD Natatorium
November 19: Farrior and Mendez go to NISD Natatorium

Students do not have homework this week. The optional test review is due by Friday, November 6th. Students are also encouraged to read every night and review addition and subtraction facts for automaticity.

What We Are Learning in Third Grade

Reader's Workshop:

This week, student's will be going back to non-fiction to focus on Author's Purpose. When we explore Author's Purpose, we look at the reasons why an author makes choices in their language, structure, central idea, and text features. Then, we examine what purpose those things serve for a reader.

You can use this pdf to support your child's learning this week:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oyZIb-NJo0h9Jtu4EZzkJHFMSLsaiS5r/view?usp=sharing

Writer's Workshop:

This week, students will start a new topic in writing. Students will begin "expert writing" and sharing all that they know about a topic they want to teach to others. We will spend this short week brainstorming for our best topics and begin planning out our first drafts. Some popular topics include: sports students play, after school activities, video games, and how to writing.

To help at home, ask your kiddos: What do I know a lot about? What is a topic I enjoy sharing with others? What are the most important things about my topic? How can I effectively teach someone information about my topic?

Skills Block:

This week, students will be learning about compound words. We will be using smaller words we know to build compound words, and discussing the meaning of the compoud words.

Ask your child what a compound word is and to give an example. Example: play and ground = playground, time and out = timeout

The students will also continue to learn about subject verb agreement. Please refer to this anchor chart for support at home.

Examples: The girl runs in the yard. The girls run in the yard.

Math:

This week, students will order numbers and find the total of a collection of bills and coins. The optional test review is due by Friday, November 6th. The topic 6 test will be on Friday, November 6th.

Lessons covered this week: 6-8 through 6-9.

Ask your child how to find the total of a combination of bills and coins?

Click on this link for information on ways to help your child at home.

Science:

We will review what we have learned about Energy in Topic 3 on Wednesday and the summative test will take place on Thursday, November 5th. On Friday, we will begin Topic 4 (Earth and Space) by viewing the anchoring phenomenon about the night sky and discuss why it changes.

Topic 3 School to Home Letter Topic 3, Experience 1 Energy in Our World Topic 3, Experience 2 Mechanical Energy

Topic 3 Study Guide for Summative Topic 4 School to Home Letter

Ask your child to share what they learned about energy including mechanical energy.

Social Studies:

This week we will identify individuals who have helped shaped our nation as a community,

so we can describe how those individuals have contributed to the expansion of communities.

We know we’ll have it when we can explain the contributions made by the Founding Fathers.

Ask your child:

How did Pierre-Charles L’Enfant, Benjamin Banneker, George Washington, and/or Benjamin Franklin shape our nation?

Why are these men still important today?

What can we infer about the types of men they were?

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