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 11: Yearbook Picture Day
September 23: Culture Night

Math homework is due by Friday, September 12th. Students should practice multiplication facts of five. Students are 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 be learning about point of view, paraphrasing, predictions, and notetaking.

Ask your child to paraphrase what we have read in the Wild Robot so far and to make predictions about what will happen next.

Writer's Workshop:

This week, students will finish up writing their personal narratives, focusing on revising and editing their drafts using a rubric.

Ask your child what personal experiences they have had that could be used to write a personal narrative.

Skills Block:

This week, students will continue multisyllable words and identify if the syllable is open or closed. Additionally, we will continue proper nouns, their titles, and capitalization.

Ask your child how many syllables are in the words "elementary" and "September", and ask them if the syllable(s) is open or closed.

Math:

This week, students will estimate to find the sum. Students will also find the difference when subtracting two and three-digit numbers. Students will be assessed on their knowledge and fluency of the fives facts on September 12th. Please have students practice multiplication facts of five daily.

Ask your child to explain what it means to estimate.

Science:

This week, we will continue our topic on Matter by finishing up Experience 2 about solids, liquids, and gases. Then we will begin Experience 3 which is all about combining materials based on physical properties to create or modify an object. The article for Experience 3 is linked below.

Lastly, 3rd grade is in need of some recycled materials this year for our science lessons. Please see the flyer below and send them anytime you have some collected. Thank you for your help!

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

Topic 1, Experience 3 Combining Materials

Ask your child about the how you can decide if an object is a solid, liquid, or gas.

Social Studies:

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

Ask your child what the Bill of Rights is.

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