September 29- 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 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 3rd. 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 locating important details that help them to identify the central/key/main idea of nonfiction texts. They will also be using context clues to help them determine the meaning of words as well as to assist them in monitoring their comprehension.

Ask your child what the central/main/key idea is.

Writer's Workshop:

This week, students will be learning how to write a central idea and using text evidence to support their central idea.

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

Skills Block:

This week, students will continue multisyllable words and identify if the syllable has a vowel team or not. Additionally, we will begin our study over apostrophes in possessives. Please feel free to review possessives with your kiddos using the video linked below.

PBS Forming & Using Possessive Nouns Video

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

Math:

This week, students will extend the double, double strategy to multiply by four with two-digit numbers. Determining the time to the minute will be reviewed this week. Students will also determine the solutions to problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes. Students will be assessed on multiplication facts of four on Wednesday, October 8th. Please have students use flashcards to practice the multiplication facts of four.

Ask your child to find the time to the minute when using an analog clock.

Science:

This week, we will begin our next experience, Position and Motion. We will discuss how position and motion can be changed by pulling and pushing objects such as wings, balls, and wagons.

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

Ask your child about how forces can be used to change an object's position and motion.

Social Studies:

This week, students will be learning about grid maps and map scales.

Ask your child what a map scale does.

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