Hi Parents,
Here are some important dates for the upcoming weeks:
- 8/29 Boelter’s Class MAPs Testing (Math)
- 8/30 – Pastries with the Principal
- 8/27 – SOT Meeting at 4:15
- 9/3 – No School
- 9/5- Fall Pictures and Free Dress
- 9/7 – Boelter’s Class MAPs Testing (Math) (This may change)
- 9/7- Superhero Day/Free Dress
I hope you had a wonderful second week of school! We introduced a lot of new concepts and learned so much this week.
Our leadership teams changed for the first time this week. Ask your students what their leadership role is for the upcoming week!
Next Week
In reading, we will start our first class novel, How to Be Cool in 3rd Grade. As we begin this novel, we will work on asking and answering questions to demonstrate an understanding of what we are reading, root words, new vocabulary, and describing characters in a story.
In math, we will continue to develop strategies for understanding how groups of items create multiplication sentences, and expand to skip counting specific fact sets.
In writing, we’ve completed the rough draft of The Best Part of Me and will start revising next week while we continue to expand our writing community.
We jumped into Google Classroom this week. We had a few hiccups on the way. Some students have not been able to log into their Google accounts. I’ve worked with our onsite technical department to make sure that all students will have access next week. Our weekly homework and classwork expectations will be updated daily on Google Classroom as soon as we all have access.
We also logged into Socrates, Xtramath, Freckle, ST Math, and Prodigy this week. We have a few more programs to roll out for in class and homework use. These sites are always available at Sites Used In Class.
I try to make sure students have options for homework so they are more invested in the process. If you have any questions or need help logging into any program, please let me know.
Our first field trip to the Springs Preserve is scheduled for October 2nd. If you are CCSD badged and would like to chaperone, please send me a Classcraft message or an email.
As we work on math facts, we’ll be using playing cards as an option to reinforce strategies we develop. If you work in the casino industry and have access to used playing cards, please send them in with your student. Thanks in advance!
I’ve enjoyed hearing all about your students in their Me Stew presentations. Thank you so much for helping them gather the needed items for this project.
Finally, I’ve completed working with and assessing beginning of year benchmarks for all students. I will reach out to you in the next couple of weeks to set up a time so we can conference and review your student’s progress.
Thanks so much for all that you do! I am so happy we are in this together. As always, if you have any questions, please reach out.
Warm Regards,
Ms. Boelter
Ms. B. in Class 