August 23, 2109

Hi Parents,

Important Upcoming Dates

8/26 – SOT Meeting
9/2 – No School – Labor Day
9/4 – Fall Pictures
9/6 – Pizza Friday
9/6 – Free Dress Day – Superhero Day
9/9-9/13 Fall Book Fair
9/11 – Gamewright Game Night
9/13 – Grandparents Breakfast (Thank you PTA!)
9/18 – Open House

I hope you had a wonderful second week of school! We introduced a lot of new concepts and learned so much this week. We also finished MAPs testing! Yay!

Next Week

In reading, we will continue reading our first class novel, How to Be Cool in 3rd Grade. As we start this novel, students will work on asking and answering questions to demonstrate an understanding of what they are reading, root words, new vocabulary, and describing characters in a story.

In math, students 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 will start a rough draft of a narrative about a time when we were All In (in coordination with our classroom theme) and will start revising next week while we continue to expand our writing community.

We jumped into Google Classroom this week. Students are learning how to navigate Google Classroom for Classroom assignments, and eventually some homework.

Speaking of learning sites, students logged into Xtramath, EPIC Books, ST Math, and Prodigy this week as well. 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.

This week’s homework includes a fluency passage for 3 nights and a digital homework log for reading and math. I am asking students to log into a math or reading program each night for 15 minutes. Students will also complete their math flash cards for their remaining multiples. I try to make sure students have options for homework so they are more invested in the process. This week, we will work on logging into these programs at home. If you have any questions or need help logging into any program, please let me know. (I know this can seem overwhelming. I’m here to help!) 2019-08-26 Homework

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, we are working on completing assessments for 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.

Multiplication Songs

We are listening to multiplication songs in class. For those who indicated they would prefer CDs, I will distribute those next week. For those who said a digital download works, here are multiplication raps:

1s Rap