September 22- Week 7

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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

September 23: Culture Night
October 10: Early Release at 11:45
October 13: Student Holiday

Math homework is due by Friday, September 26th. Please have your child practice multiplication facts of two 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 begin our unit on Nonfiction! We will be discussing previewing a nonfiction text and finding the central idea.

Ask your child what the purpose of a nonfiction text is.

Writer's Workshop:

This week, students will be learning to respond to a text that they are reading, using stop and jots. The students will also be able to identify the central idea of a nonfiction text and write it correctly in the Reader's Response Notebook.

Ask your child what is a central idea and how do stop and jots help them to recall the important events of a nonfiction texts.

Skills Block:

This week, students will continue multisyllable words and identify if the syllable is open or closed. Additionally, we will begin our study over contractions. Please feel free to review contractions with your kiddos using the video linked below.

PBS Contractions Video

Ask your child how many syllables are in the words "baseball" and "robot", and ask them if the syllable(s) is open or closed. *the syllable may end with a vowel, but does the syllable itself end with a vowel sound*

Math:

This week, students will learn the double strategy to multiply by two and the double, double strategy to multiply by four. Students will be assessed on multiplication facts of two on Friday, September 26. Please have students use flashcards to practice the multiplication facts of two for automaticity.

Ask your child to explain how to use the double strategy and the double, double strategy.

Science:

This week, we will begin our next Topic studying Force and Motion. In Experience 1, we will identify and use patterns to demonstrate and explain that pushes, pulls, gravity, and magnetism are types of forces.

Topic 2 School to Home Letter

Ask your child about the how gravity and magnetism can affect objects?

Social Studies:

This week, students will be learning about how to read a map and intermediate directions on a compass rose.

Ask your child what the intermediate directions on a compass rose are.

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