October 20 - Week 11

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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

October 27 - 31: Red Ribbon Week
October 31: Storybook Character Parade at 8:00 a.m.
November 3-4: Student Holiday
November 7: Fall Fest

Math homework is due by Friday, October 24th. The optional test review is also due by Friday, October 24th. 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 continue to analyze characters in fiction. We will focus on how characters react to problems and the role that secondary characters play in stories.

Ask your child to name three secondary characters in Because of Winn Dixie.

Writer's Workshop:

This week, students will continue writing opinion essays, by stating their opinion and using text evidence from the book, Because of Winn Dixie, to support their opinion.

Ask your child what is an opinion essay and how they can use evidence from the story they are reading to support their opinion.

Skills Block:

This week, students will continue multisyllable words and identify if the syllable has an R controlled vowel sound. Additionally, we will begin our study over pronouns. Please feel free to review pronouns with your kiddos using the video linked below.

PBS Pronouns Video

Ask your child what vowel r combinations are in the words monster, farther, porch, bird, fur.

Math:

This week, students will represent fractions greater than zero and less than or equal to one with denominators of 2,3, 4, 6, and 8 using concrete objects and pictorial models, including strip diagrams and number lines. On Monday, students will receive the optional test review. This will be due on Friday, October 24. The module four check up will be on Friday, October 24.

Ask your child to identify a fraction of a set of objects such as, one-fourth of 16 buttons or one-third of 15 marbles.

Science:

This week, we will start Topic 3 which covers Energy! We will focus on identifying forms of energy, including light, sound, thermal, and mechanical energy. We will also give everyday examples of each type of energy.

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

Ask your child about different examples of energy they see everyday.

Social Studies:

This week, students will be learning about rural, urban, and suburban communities.

Ask your child what type of community Roanoke is.

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