September 22-26
Hello Parents and Students,
PTA
APEX Fundraiser: Our Fun Run will be this Thursday, September 25th at 8:45. Remember to wear running shoes and bring a water bottle!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Tierra Linda Community Council: If your child is interested in participating in Community Council this year, please fill out this form with them- Community Council Form. This year, 3rd graders involved in Community Council will help create our School Spirit days and themes, make posters for spirit days, and help with our district-wide canned food drive, Stuff-a-Bus. Students would participate in Community Council during school hours. They would not miss class time to be involved. Meetings will take place once a month during students' lunch time in Mrs. Harmon's classroom.
ELA Tests: Your student will be coming home with their first graded Benchmark test this week. This was their first time answering these types of test questions independently. This is just a reminder that they are still learning how to take these tests, and they are difficult. It is okay if your student is not earning a 3 right away, we will continue practicing and having a growth mindset!
3rd Grade Expectations: Please continue to reinforce 3rd grade behavior and academic expectations at home. We are teaching our 3rd graders how to strive for academic excellence, keep a growth mindset, take accountability for their words and actions and model respect towards our teachers and peers. Reinforcing these expectations at home will help our class have a successful and fun year at school :)
OUR WEEK AT A GLANCE
Math: This week, students will have their second math test on lessons 10-14 in Module 1. The study guide will come home on Monday and the test will be on Tuesday. Please assist them with reviewing the problems, studying is their homework. This may look something like asking problems verbally, writing similar problems down on a new paper, or covering up the answers and redoing the problem. The assessment given will be very similar to the study guide.
Additionally, students need to be practicing memorizing their multiplication facts for a minimum of 10 minutes a night. If you would like to print a set of flashcards, visit this site. A great, free website students can use to practice at home is timestables.com.
Reader's Workshop: We will finish our Benchmark Unit 1: Government for the People. Our focus will be answering the essential question: Why do people participate in government?
Students will also continue using skills to find signal words in sequential text, answer text dependent questions and answer comprehension questions. Our benchmark assessment will be on Friday.
Writer's Workshop: This week students will continue to focus on writing a well-constructed, narrative paragraph. Students will be writing complete sentences using correct capitalization, spelling and punctuation. They will learn how to write a topic sentence, supporting details and a concluding wrap-up sentence.
Social Studies: This week, students will continue with Week 29 in our Studies Weekly curriculum. This week we will learn about important documents in history.
Science: In this week's lesson, students make observations of various organisms and record the ways in which their traits are similar or different.
P.E.: Please dress appropriately on Monday and Friday for P.E/Dance class every week.
REMINDERS
Return signed Weekly Blue Folder Tuesday, September 23rd
Daily 20 reading log due on Friday, with a parent/grown up signature
Sign communicator daily :)
Thank you,
Mrs. Palmer