October 27 - Week 12

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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
- Monday - Wear Pajamas
- Tuesday - Wear bow tie, neck tie, or tie-dye
- Wednesday - Wear crazy hair, socks, clothes, or shoes
- Thursday - Wear team jersey or Cox spirit wear
- Friday - Dress up like your favorite storybook character
October 31: Storybook Character Parade at 8:00 a.m.
November 3-4: Student Holiday
November 7: Fall Fest
November 18: Field trip to NISD Kelly Box AG Center

Math homework is due by Friday, October 31st. 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 change throughout a story and how they eventually work to resolve their conflicts. We will also reflect on the theme of a book.

Ask your child to describe the theme in Because of Winn Dixie.

Writer's Workshop:

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

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 review vowel digraphs, diphthongs, and r controlled vowels. Additionally, students will review subject verb agreement and making sure they are writing complete sentences. Feel free to use the PBS video linked below to review at home.

PBS Complete Sentences Video

Ask your child what is the difference between the ow in rainbow and cow.

Math:

This week, students will determine a quotient using the relationship between multiplication and division.

Ask your child how fact families can help them determine the quotient.

Science:

This week, we will continue Topic 3 with Experience 2. We will discuss how height affects an object's speed and how engineers consider mechanical energy when building roller coasters.

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

Ask your child what the four forms of energy are and an example of each type.

Social Studies:

This week, students will be learning about how communities have changed over time.

Ask your child how our communities have changed over time.

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