September 16, 2019

We learned so much this week! Students are getting a better idea of how to complete tasks and assessments independently as 3rd graders.

Curriculum

Ask your student about finding arrays in all you see around you. Our math curriculum pace really picks up at this point in the year, and it is so important that students are practicing math facts each night.  It helps so much! Students love to tell me when they practice with you!  Students can use  Freckle, their flashcards, and Prodigy to really hone in on those facts.  Right now, our math goal is to have a mental strategy for all multiplication math facts through 12.  In math this week, we will start working on the properties of multiplication.

In reading, we finished up answering questions by citing textual evidence. We took an assessment on Friday. Those results will make their way home next week. Next week, we will work to determine the central message, lesson, or moral of text, and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text. In writing, we made progress on our first major revision to our first published writing, and worked on a benchmark narrative writing assessment.

As we progress into the fall, our content and responsibility rises in grade 3. We all look for inventive ways to challenge your students and make sure we are reaching them.

This week’s homework:  2019-09-16 Homework

Field Trips

We have two field trips tentatively scheduled for October.  I’ll need volunteers for all of them and I’ll send home paperwork this week.  You must be badged to be a field trip volunteer.

Open House

Wednesday is Open House from 5:30 to 7 pm.  We’ll have three sessions in every classroom.  The sessions will last 20 minutes.  This is the current schedule for those sessions:

5:30 – 5:50 Rotation 1
6:00 – 6:20 Rotation 2
6:30 – 6:50 Rotation 3

Pirate Day

I dress like a pirate on Pirate Day, which is Thursday, September 19.  I encourage your student to do the same.  No weapons, please!

Upcoming Events

9/18 – Open House
9/19 – Pirate Day
9/27 – Free Dress (Sports Teams)
9/27 – Fun Run

Game Night was amazing!  Thanks to everyone who was able to attend and to all of you who picked up games to play with your families.  I loved seeing all of you sitting at tables and playing together.

Thanks again for all the help in the classroom, for all that you do at home, and making this week another wonderful week. I am thankful for all of you!