Week 6

September 26-29

Hello Parents and Students,

PTA

Reflections: Please visit this link for more information about this year's Reflections Art Program. Submissions are due September 29th.

Hawk Move and Groove Dance-a-Thon: Please sign and return the permission slip for our Hawk Move and Groove fundraiser! These are due Friday, September 29th. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Daily 20 Reading Log: Students will continue reading a "just-right" chapter book for 20 minutes each night. If you need to check out a book from our classroom library, please let me know. Please sign the reading log folder and send it back to the classroom every Friday.

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 continue to work with equal groups, multiplication and division. They will use arrays and tape diagrams to represent problems. Students will explore the relationship between multiplication and division through the Read, Draw, Write process. 

Reader's Workshop: We will continue our Benchmark curriculum Unit 1: Government for the People. Our focus will be answering the essential question: Why do people participate in government? 

Students will continue participating in our Reader's Workshop centers which include reading to self, listening to reading, word work and grammar, responding to reading and using technology to build reading strategies. 

Writer's Workshop: This week students will continue to focus on writing a well-constructed, 5 sentence 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. 

Art: Students will finish their oil pastel sunflowers this week. 

Science: We will continue working in our first unit of study for Science, which is Balancing Forces. We will continue exploring how inventors think and create through Mystery Science.

P.E.: Please dress appropriately on Monday and Thursday for P.E every week. 

REMINDERS


Thank you,

Mrs. Palmer