September 8 - Week 5

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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 7: Student Holiday
September 10: Yearbook Picture Day
September 14 - 18: Bookfair
September 15: Cox Culture Night 5:00-6:30

Students are encouraged to make flashcards to practice multiplication facts of ten. 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 plot.

Ask your child what makes up the plot in a story.

Writer's Workshop:

This week, students will continue the publishing process. Students will continue with their chosen story and begin drafting an ending, practicing prargraphs, and start revising to delete unnecessary information.

Ask your child what "small moment" story they have chosen and what are their favorite details regarding that story.

Skills Block:

This week, students will be studying closed syllables and applying the vowel sound to help them spell words. The students will continue to learn about capitalization, focusing on the capitalization of titles of people.

Ask your child how does the vowel sound in a closed syllable (the vowel makes the short vowel sound).

Ask your child to name and write some titles that require capitalization (Doctor Smith, President Trump, Queen Elizabeth, etc.).

Math:

This week, students will learn about the distributive property to solve multiplication facts. Students will also solve multiplication facts of three, four, six, and seven. We encourage students to make flashcards for multiplication facts of ten to practice daily. We will assess fluency of the multiplication facts of ten on Friday, September 11th.

Lessons covered this week: 3-1 through 3-4.

Ask your child

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

Science:

This week, we will be discussing how we can combine materials based on their properties. That allows us to create new items or modify them to accomplish a purpose. Students will get an opportunity to combine materials to build a tower during the latter part of the week. Students will also bring home a copy of the Read About It for Experience 3 that is linked below.

Topic 1 School to Home Letter Topic 1, Exp. 1 Properties of Matter Topic 1, Exp. 2 Solids, Liquids, and Gases

Topic 1, Exp. 3 Combining Materials

Ask your child about for examples of real life items that are created from combining materials.

Social Studies:

This week, students will be learning about the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

Ask your child what the Bill of Rights is.

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