September 28 - Week 8

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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 9 - 12: Student Holiday
November 18: Thanksgiving Lunch at 12:55
November 18: Nelson, Scheerle and Smith go to NISD Natatorium
November 19: Farrior and Mendez go to NISD Natatorium

Math homework is due by Friday, October 2nd. Students are also encouraged to read every night and review addition and subtraction facts for automaticity.

What We Are Learning in Third Grade

Reader's Workshop:

This week, students will begin learning about the elements of Nonfiction.

Ask your child what the difference between Fiction and Nonfiction is.

Writer's Workshop:

This week, students will still practice restating before answering a question/reading response. Additionally, we will begin including text evidence to support our answers. We will highlight the important parts of the question being asked before including that information in our written answer, and high light evidence that supports our answer before including it in our written response.

To help at home, have your student respond to simple questions using important words from the question before their answer. For example: What did you learn today? Today I learned . . . Students can begin providing evidence by continuing their response with "this was important because".

Skills Block:

This week, students will be studying vowel teams (such as oa, ea, ou, ow, ai, ay, ee, oo) in multisyllabic words. The students will continue to learn about apostrophes and how to use them in possessive nouns.

Ask your child what vowel sound do you hear in a vowel team and what letters make that sound. (Example: boat "long o" and "oa")

Ask your child how to make a noun possessive. (Example: the bone of the dog = the dog's bone, the trip of the family = the family's trip)

Math:

This week, students will use multiplication facts to solve related division facts and determine if a number is even or odd.

Lessons covered this week: 4-4 through 4-8.

Ask your child how you can use multiplication facts to solve division facts?

Click on this link for information on ways to help your child with topic three at home.

Science:

This week, we will be discussing the second experience in Topic 2. We will explore how the position and motion of an object can be changed. On Thursday, we will be sending home a study guide for the Topic 2 Summative that will take place on Tuesday, October 6th. It is also liked below if you would like to begin reviewing the first experience.

Topic 2 School to Home Letter Topic 2. Exp. 1 Forces Topic 2, Exp. 3 Position and Motion

Topic 2 Summative Study Guide

Ask your child about how pushes and pulls can change the position or motion of an object.

Social Studies:

This week, students will be learning about intermediate directions on a compass rose.

Ask your child what the four intermediate directions are.

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