October 6- Week 9

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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 10: Early Release at 11:45
October 13: Student Holiday
October 27 - 31: Red Ribbon Week
November 3-4: Student Holiday

Math homework is due by Friday, October 10th. Please have your child practice multiplication facts of four daily. 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 be identifying the way that authors structure the text. We will be looking at the following text structures: Cause and Effect, Chronological Order, and Problem and Solution.

Ask your child for an example of Cause and Effect.

Writer's Workshop:

This week, students will continue working on writing a central idea and using text evidence to support their central idea.

Ask your child what is a central idea and how does the evidence from the text you're reading support your central idea.

Skills Block:

This week, students will review multisyllable words and identify if the syllable has a vowel team or the VCe pattern. Additionally, we will begin our study over verb tenses (past, present, and future). Please feel free to review verb tenses with your kiddos using the video linked below.

PBS Verb Tenses Video

Ask your child how many syllables are in the words "candy", "racecar", and "motion", and ask them if the syllable(s) has a vowel team , VCe pattern, or not. *the syllable may end with a vowel, but does the syllable itself end with a vowel sound*

Math:

This week, students will determine the solutions to problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes. Students will also compose and decompose numbers as a sum of so many ten thousands, so many thousands, so many hundreds, so many tens, and so many ones using objects, pictorial models, and numbers. Students will be assessed on multiplication facts of four on Wednesday, October 8. Please have students use flashcards to practice the multiplication facts of four. On Wednesday, students will complete a CBA over modules 1-3.

Ask your child to tell you what the time is when using an analog clock. Then ask them to tell you what the time will be in thirty minutes.

Science:

This week, we will complete our second experience, Position and Motion. Then, we will review everything we have learned about Force and Motion in Topic 2. We will have a summative assessment on Wednesday, October 8th. We will review in class using various activities to focus on vocabulary and the content. In addition, we are sending home a study guide that can be used for additional review at home. It is also linked below.

Topic 2 School to Home Letter Topic 2, Exp. 1 Forces Topic 2, Exp. 2 Position and Motion

Topic 2- Force and Motion Study Guide

Ask your child about our investigation and how the amount of force affects the speed and distance of an object.

Social Studies:

This week, students will be taking a break from Social Studies!

Ask your child what their favorite thing they learned in Social Studies so far this year has been.

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