November 5 - Week 13

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 3-4: Student Holiday
November 7: Fall Fest
November 18: Field trip to NISD Kelly Box AG Center
November 24-28: Student Holiday

Students do not have homework this week, but 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 text features in nonfiction books and texts.

Ask your child to describe some text features they might find in their nonfiction books and texts.

Writer's Workshop:

This week, students will begin a new writing unit, where they will be writing about a topic that they are an expert on. The students will include a Table of Contents page including different subtopics with in their expert topic.

Ask your child what topic they are an expert on, and what are the titles of their chapters in the Table of Contents.

Skills Block:

This week, students will continue multisyllable words and practice compound words. Additionally, students will review subject verb agreement, making sure they are writing complete sentences, and practice writing compound sentences. Feel free to use the PBS video linked below to review at home.

PBS Complete Sentences Video

Ask your child what is the different words can be made using the words ball or man.

Math:

This week, students will use attributes to recognize rhombuses, parallelograms, trapezoids, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals.

Ask your child to explain why a square is a rectangle.

Science:

This week, we will complete Topic 3 with Experience 2 and reviewing what we have learned. We will take our Summative test over Energy on Friday, November 7th. There is a study guide that will go home on Wednesday and is attached below.

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

Topic 3 Study Guide

Ask your child how roller coaster engineers use mechanical energy to create roller coasters.

Social Studies:

This week, students will be learning about our founding fathers.

Ask your child who some of our founding fathers were.

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