Dear 3rd Grade families,
Thank you for all of your time you have given to us for conferences so far! We are almost done, so if you have not had a conference yet, we are almost to you and are looking forward to meeting with you! Also, thank you for all of the goodies that made our celebrations at school amazing today! We are scheduling Great American Teach-In for Nov 16th and still have lots of room for parent volunteers! If you are interested in speaking to our class(es), please let us know your availability. Also, please consider staying and speaking with multiple grade levels or even just one more class. Students LOVE this day a lot and really enjoy a variety of speakers. Thank you so much! Details for the 3rd grade basket: For this year’s Fall Festival each grade is putting together a basket to be auctioned off. This will all be done by parent volunteers. Below is the SignUpGenius. Teachers will collect the Lego’s as they come in. They will be picked up from us on November 2nd, so that the basket can be put together. We appreciate your help with this! http://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a0d4eacad23a75-lego Thank you to our Fun Friday parents! We will schedule more days closer to January. Below is our current schedule: Date: Parent Volunteer 1 Parent Volunteer 2 11/4 Mr. Sokolowski Mrs. Sokolowski 11/18 Mrs. Hernandez Mrs. Armstrong 12/2 Mrs. Stegura Mrs. Glaser 1/13 Mr. Manninen Ms. Jones 1/27 Mrs. Aja Mrs. Michaud Homework and class info for next week: This week in ELA: (English Language Arts/Reading & Writing Spelling words and activities can be found here: http://sawyertracy.weebly.com/spelling.html ELA: The students worked very hard testing this week. I am so proud of their perseverance. This week in ELA we will begin Unit 2 - Module C. The students will be reading folktales, fables, and other stories We will be learning and practicing finding the central message/lesson or moral and explaining how we know through key details. In writing we will begin learning how to write opinion essays. For homework the students will have 2 reading logs, social studies, and spelling activities This week in Math: In math we will continue discussing area (squares, rectangles, irregular shapes, & triangles-lessons) as well as bar graphs, pictographs, and solving problems using information from graphs. We will review all old material, and we will take a test on Thursday. Please continue practicing multiplication facts at home and consider things like multiplication.com as an additional resource. The Tenmarks assignment due by Friday is: Find Area of Squares and Rectangles with Unit Squares. No homework on Monday! Happy Halloween! Please remember HW pages and links are available at my website harveymelissa.weebly.com: This week in Social Studies: Social Studies will lead us to the Caribbean to learn about the climate, vegetation, and unique natural and manmade landmarks. We will have a test this week. This week in Science: In Science, we are continuing to work on Adaptations. We will be talking about how animals and plants change throughout changing seasons. Quiz next Friday. I have found an online edition of the textbook. It does not match up exactly regarding page numbers but the information is the same! For this online edition, the information we are working with can be found on p 118-140. Follow this link. I used Firefox and chrome, both worked fine. http://www.glencoe.com/ebooks/science/9780022877446/ This week in Health: Students will be learning about Halloween safety including Halloween candy safety tips Upcoming Important Dates: October 31 Halloween (No costumes today) November 4 Fall Festival November 6 Daylight Savings Time November 11 Veteran’s Day: Veteran’s & OXI Days Celebration/Midterm report November 15 Picture Retakes November 16 Great American Teach In (We love our volunteers!) November 21-25 Thanksgiving/Fall Break ______________________________________________ Visit our websites for homework, information unique to each class, links, and announcements! (We know this is the first year for you visiting different sites, but students will be switching grades from now on so it’s important that they learn this skill sooner rather than later-Thank you!) Ms. Eisenbacher: (Science inquiries) website http://eisenbacherm.weebly.com/ email [email protected] Ms. Sawyer: (ELA inquiries) website http://sawyertracy.weebly.com/ email [email protected] Mrs. Harvey: (Math inquiries) website http://harveymelissa.weebly.com/ email [email protected] ______________________________________________ Thank YOU for all you do! The Third Grade Team
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Dear 3rd Grade families, We are beginning to schedule Great American Teach-In. If you are interested in speaking to our class(es), please let us know your availability. Also, please consider staying and speaking with multiple grade levels or even just one more class. Students LOVE this day a lot and really enjoy a variety of speakers. Thank you so much! Thank you to all of the parents who came to the PTO meeting and voted in the elections last night. We are excited to have some wonderful parents to work with for this next term! Speaking of parent involvement…at the bottom of the update you will find the letter from Mrs. Hauser. Please reach out to her if you have any questions. Details for the 3rd grade basket: For this year’s Fall Festival each grade is putting together a basket to be auctioned off. This will all be done by parent volunteers. Below is the SignUpGenius. Teachers will collect the Lego’s as they come in. They will be picked up from us on November 2nd, so that the basket can be put together. We appreciate your help with this! http://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a0d4eacad23a75-lego Thank you to our Fun Friday parents! We will schedule more days closer to January. Below is our current schedule: Date: Parent Volunteer 1 Parent Volunteer 2 10/21 Mrs. Taravella Mrs. Brenner Today–It was awesome! 11/4 Mr. Sokolowski Mrs. Sokolowski 11/18 Mrs. Hernandez Mrs. Armstrong 12/2 Mrs. Stegura Mrs. Glaser 1/13 Mr. Manninen Ms. Jones 1/27 Mrs. Aja Mrs. Michaud Thank you so much to all of our families who have taken a “wish” from outside our classrooms or from our websites and fulfilled them, and to those who have donated through PTO class adoptions. You make it possible to for our classrooms to run smoothly through all of the little “extras” from classroom printer ink used to replace lost homework quickly to an electric pencil sharpener that students use each morning to prepare their pencils for a day of learning ahead to rewards for our amazing students! You are appreciated so much! BIG THANK YOU TO THE ARMSTRONG AND GRICE FAMILIES THIS WEEK!!!!! Mrs. Harvey’s room is set on black ink for a while and Ms. Sawyer & Ms. Eisenbacher’s students are really enjoying their new dividers! Homework and class info for next week: This week in ELA: (English Language Arts/Reading & Writing Spelling words and activities can be found here: http://sawyertracy.weebly.com/spelling.html ELA: This week in ELA we will finish with Unit 1 Module B. The students will be taking their portfolio test at the end of the week. Please encourage your child to do their best and use their strategies that they have been practicing. It's also important for the students to get a good night of rest the night before and eat a healthy breakfast that morning. Scores will be sent home within a couple weeks of testing after tests have been scored. For homework the students will continue to have 2 reading logs, 1 Social Studies assignment that practices a reading skill (due each Wednesday), and spelling activities. This week in Math: In math we will be continuing learning new information about area (squares, rectangles, irregular shapes, & triangles-lessons 6-1 to 6-7), we will review all old material. We will have a quiz on Thursday. Please continue practicing multiplication facts at home and consider things like multiplication.com as an additional resource. The Tenmarks assignment due by Friday is: Solve Division Problems with Visuals and Word Problems Please remember HW pages and links are available at my website harveymelissa.weebly.net: This week in Social Studies: Social Studies will lead us to the Caribbean to learn about the climate, vegetation, and unique natural and manmade landmarks. We will not have a test this week. This week in Science: In Science, we are continuing to work on “Animal Adaptations.” This material can be found in Chapter 3 Lesson 3. Quiz next Friday. I have found an online edition of the textbook. It does not match up exactly regarding page numbers but the information is the same! For this online edition, the information we are working with can be found on p 118-140. Follow this link. I used Firefox and chrome, both worked fine. http://www.glencoe.com/ebooks/science/9780022877446/ This week in Health: Students will be learning about Halloween safety including Halloween candy safety tips Upcoming Important Dates: October 25 Report Card Day October 28 Halloween Celebrations (Costumes welcome today!) October 31 Halloween (No costumes today) November 4 Fall Festival November 6 Daylight Savings Time November 11 Veteran’s Day: Veteran’s & OXI Days Celebration/Midterm report November 15 Picture Retakes November 16 Great American Teach In (We love our volunteers!) November 21-25 Thanksgiving/Fall Break ______________________________________________ Visit our websites for homework, information unique to each class, links, and announcements! (We know this is the first year for you visiting different sites, but students will be switching grades from now on so it’s important that they learn this skill sooner rather than later-Thank you!) Ms. Eisenbacher: (Science inquiries) website http://eisenbacherm.weebly.com/ email [email protected] Ms. Sawyer: (ELA inquiries) website http://sawyertracy.weebly.com/ email [email protected] Mrs. Harvey: (Math inquiries) website http://harveymelissa.weebly.com/ email [email protected] ______________________________________________ Thank YOU for all you do! The Third Grade Team Letter from Mrs. Hauser to teachers explaining Fall Festival activities (Please reach out to Mrs. Hauser with any questions.) Ignore the first part, as the 3rd grade basket theme was already selected by our awesome parents coordinating the basket.: Our biggest fun time of the year where families and teachers come together. We are encouraging you all to be a part of this year’s awesome fest fun! And need you to encourage our families too! Pick your theme and ask the parents to help fill up the baskets! Ask a few parents to help organize this for you. We as a P.T.O. are about joining hands and helping together. Can choose to divide one basket into two by doing a boy themed basket and a themed girl basket or simply doing one big basket. If the price of the basket is over a little over 600.00 - 700.00 you may want to split it. Again involving the parents are a blessing! The best project yet is aimed for parent involvement, gives the opportunity to be creative and a part of their child’s experience here at Plato while making great memories to last a life time! A class project! It includes every child in that grade. That is the key. It will be auctioned or raffle at fall fest. I have seen these done at many schools and are extremely popular and most sort after! The class project involving every classmate is what make this so special. For some examples, a flower pot with everything child’s hand print with their name written next to it and the date. Or a surf board with every child’s foot print with name and date on it and then shellac applied over it. It can be tiles with every child’s drawing on it and name and date put together to frame a mirror or to make a table or simply one big picture to hang on a wall. These projects are priceless! I had a friend that made a monopoly board using the children names as streets made out of wood that sold for over $3,000! You just never know what amazing projects the parents will come up with. Since this is a volunteer thing and it’s new to us, it is okay if the parents are not quick to take this on this year, but we would like to see this become a thing for us! It makes our hearts melt thinking about these projects. We would like for you to ask what parent(s) would like to create this for their child’s class for the fall fest Nov 4th. I am sure with set times, It can be done maybe at lunch, gym or art. The parent(s) can come in and work on this to get those foot prints/ hand prints etc. Maybe the art teacher can be of some assistance. If you or any parents have any question feel free to call me @ 727-943-9388 Deborah Hauser. No problem with giving my number out. Thank you for all you do Teachers! And for making this year’s Fall fest event awesome! Sincerely, Mrs. Deborah Hauser
Dear 3rd Grade families, Thank you to all of our chaperones who helped make our field trip to the Morean Arts Center so wonderful! We all had a great time learning about all of the art and exploring how glass is made! We have been having a blast with the Fun Fridays we have had so far! 3rd grade parents ROCK! Fun Friday is typically when parents design an activity for the classes, bring it in, and run the activity. It lasts about 20-25 minutes and is usually something like a craft, experiment, or project (a lot of people research on Pinterest or get something premade on Oriental Trading). Really, the only limit is your imagination! We have done everything from kite flying to painting to making picture frames to creating a treat (dipped pretzel rods, dirt cups, etc.) and everything in between! Record all of the work you put into this as you can receive volunteer hours for planning, shopping/organizing the activity, and the time spent in class. It does need to be enough for up to 54 kids, which is why we are asking for two parents to split it up and help share the cost and because we will need a parent for each hosting classroom. (We can connect you with another parent as dates are selected.) We know you love to be involved and we love to reward our students’ awesomeness! The dates for Fun Fridays are below. Please let us know via email if you’d like to sign up and a big THANK YOU to those who have already: Date: Parent Volunteer 1 Parent Volunteer 2 10/21 Mrs. Taravella Mrs. Brenner 11/4 Mr. Sokolowski Mrs. Sokolowski 11/18 Mrs. Hernandez Mrs. Armstrong 12/2 Mrs. Stegura Mrs. Glaser 1/13 Mr. Manninen Ms. Jones 1/27 Mrs. Aja Mrs. Michaud Thank you so much to all of our families who have taken a “wish” from outside our classrooms or from our websites and fulfilled them, and to those who have donated through PTO class adoptions. You make it possible to for our classrooms to run smoothly through all of the little “extras” from classroom printer ink used to replace lost homework quickly to an electric pencil sharpener that students use each morning to prepare their pencils for a day of learning ahead to rewards for our amazing students! You are appreciated so much! A special thank you to: The Bailey Family, The Alonso Family,The Sokolowski Family, The Armstrong Family, and The Sevelin Family. (If you have donated and are not listed here, that means we have not been notified yet, so please let us know!) Homework and class info for next week: This week in ELA: (English Language Arts/Reading & Writing Spelling words and activities can be found here: http://sawyertracy.weebly.com/spelling.html ELA: The hard work of all of the students on their book projects was very evident. Stop by and see all of the projects displayed in our hallway! The skills that the students practiced on the book project are skills that they will continue to practice throughout the school year to help them reach mastery. Spelling City has been a great addition to our ELA classroom. Students are now taking all of their spelling tests and pretests on Spelling City. Parents can log in with the student username and password to find out their test scores the day of the test. You can also see which words they may have spelling incorrectly. Remember students can continue to complete spelling assignments on paper OR do the activities on Spelling City. I always assign more than enough so that they have a choice on which ones they want to practice with for their spelling homework. Our first 3rd grade Reading Portfolio assessment is coming up on October 26th & 27th. It is crucial that your student is in class in order to be prepared for these tests and must be present during the testing window. Students should have a good night of rest before the test and a healthy breakfast the day of the test. Encourage your child to relax and do a great job using all the strategies they have been practicing in class. Scores will be sent home within a couple weeks of testing after tests have been scored. HOMEWORK CHANGE: Students will only need to complete TWO Reading Log Entries. Instead, they will bring home Social Studies homework to allow them more time to interact with their lessons and continue practicing non-fiction reading skills. Social Studies will be sent home on Mondays and due on Wednesdays. This week in Math: Important Update: Students may do only even numbered problems on their math homework on the nights that they have science homework in an effort to alleviate some of their workload that evening. ***Please make sure to look over the homework to make sure that is sufficient practice and that they show understanding on the material. If you determine that more practice is needed, you are always welcome to assist your child in completing the other questions.*** In math we will be learning new information about area (squares, rectangles, irregular shapes, & triangles-lessons 6-1 to 6-7), we will review all old material. For our test grade next week we will take a Benchmark Assessment on Topics 1-4, which we have learned and reviewed in depth for quite a while. We are excited to see our students show what they know! Feel free to have students look back or practice these lessons, videos, and skills before the assessment. This assessment will be taken online and will be part of their math records for the year. Please continue practicing multiplication facts at home and consider things like multiplication.com as an additional resource. The Tenmarks assignment due by Friday is: Identity and Zero Property. The following info, as well as HW pages, is available at my website at harveymelissa.weebly.net: Please check student red folders for homework going home Monday-Thursday, and remember that Pearson can be used to obtain HW in case forgotten at school at www.pearsonrealize.com when they are workbook pages, which from now on will normally be the case. Sign in and then select the green box for “enVision Math” under the green circle that says “Programs.” Then select the topic: this is the first digit in the lesson number. For instance, for Lesson 1-4 you would click on Topic 1. Next, click on the box with that night’s lesson number. This will take you to all available resources for this lesson. Students can watch 2 videos to remind them of skills: “Visual Learning” and “Another Look.” They can access the textbook to see the homework page (no need to print it out, just write answers on a paper) and sometimes there are even some fun games available to practice a skill. This week in Social Studies: Social Studies we are learning about the regions around the U.S., specifically Mexico. This week in Science: In Science, we are working with “Animals in Their Environments” and “Animal Adaptations.” This material can be found in Chapter 3 Lessons 2 & 3. Quiz next Friday. I have found an online edition of the textbook. It does not match up exactly regarding page numbers but the information is the same! For this online edition, the information we are working with can be found on p 118-140. Follow this link. I used Firefox and chrome, both worked fine. http://www.glencoe.com/ebooks/science/9780022877446/ This week in Health: Students will continue learning about what a healthy diet consists of. Which foods help us stay healthy and which ones are bad. **Please check Mrs. Parker's Emails or the School Website for upcoming events!!** ______________________________________________ Visit our websites for homework, information unique to each class, links, and announcements! (We know this is the first year for you visiting different sites, but students will be switching grades from now on so it’s important that they learn this skill sooner rather than later-Thank you!) Ms. Eisenbacher: (Science inquiries) website http://eisenbacherm.weebly.com/ email [email protected] Ms. Sawyer: (ELA inquiries) website http://sawyertracy.weebly.com/ email [email protected] Mrs. Harvey: (Math inquiries) website http://harveymelissa.weebly.com/ email [email protected] ______________________________________________ Thank YOU for all you do! The Third Grade Team |
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