Dear 3rd Grade Families,
Thank you veterans! We hope you enjoyed today’s performance and we thank you for your service! Students are already looking forward to Great American Teach In. Thank you to all of our volunteers. See you Wednesday! We are really hitting our groove and students impress us every day with how much they have learned in such a short time and with their excitement to learn as well! Now that they have become familiar with the curriculum and procedures, we are working on building stamina and developing time management. You can read some great tips that we will use in our classrooms and that can be mirrored at home here: http://www.scilearn.com/blog/teaching-persistence-how-to-build-student-stamina and http://mamaot.com/tips-for-teaching-kids-time-management-planning-and-organization/ 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 11/18 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) We are continuing 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 continue learning how to write opinion essays. For homework the students will have 2 reading logs, social studies, and spelling activities. Please help students out by checking over their work for completion when you sign off on the Parent Signature box. Thank you for your help with this-you are appreciated! Spelling words & activities: http://sawyertracy.weebly.com/spelling.html This week in Math: In math we will continue discussing area, graphs, all old material, addition and subtraction, rounding, estimating sums, 3-digits, inverse operations to check work, addition patterns, and using partial products to subtract (Feel free to access Pearsonrealize.com and take a look at those lessons.) Please continue practicing multiplication facts at home and consider things like multiplication.com as an additional resource. Thanksgiving Break might be a terrific time to practice on a plane or in a car if you are traveling! This week’s Tenmarks HW assignment is “Length, Width, and Area.” Thursday night’s math homework will be online under assignments at Pearsonrealize.com. Students should look for the lesson number 6-7 that night and do only that assignment. This week in Social Studies: We will be doing a unit wrap-up project and unit quizzes that will take us through Thanksgiving Break. Remember, there is an ELA/SS homework sent home each Monday that has replaced a Reading Log entry. It will be due each Wednesday. This week in Science: We are continuing with Physical Science. We will be finishing light energy with a quiz next Tuesday 11/15. We will be moving onto heat energy after that. Textbook pages 480-484. The online edition that I found does not have the Energy Unit, however there is a great review of this lesson available online at https://www.macmillanmh.com/science/2009/student/ga/grade3/g3_ch12.html The online edition of the textbook does not align exactly, so please look at the table of contents to find corresponding pages for future lessons. http://www.glencoe.com/ebooks/science/9780022877446/ This week in Health: Students will be learning about Type I and Type II diabetes, the body’s use of insulin, and the link between Type II and unhealthy eating. Upcoming Important Dates: Nov 12 Tampa Bay Lighting Game Family Night Nov 14-18 National Anti-Bullying Week Nov 15 Fall picture retakes Nov 16 Great American Teach In-Thank you volunteers!! Nov 17 Chick-Fil-A PTO Spirit Night Nov 18 Kona Ice Nov 19 Dufala Thanksgiving Turkey Donations Nov 21-25 Thanksgiving Break Nov 29 Happy Birthday Mrs. Young! Thank you for all you do! Nov 30 SBLT Dec 1-14 SAT10 Testing Window ______________________________________________ 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, Thank you to all of our veterans who have served our country! Please let us know if any active duty or veteran parents will be attending Friday’s Veteran’s Day & OXI Day celebrations. (Please note: Students will need to be in regular uniforms on Fridayfor the performance.) We are really hitting our groove and students impress us every day with how much they have learned in such a short time and with their excitement to learn as well! Now that they have become familiar with the curriculum and procedures, we are working on building stamina and developing time management. You can read some great tips that we will use in our classrooms and that can be mirrored at home here: http://www.scilearn.com/blog/teaching-persistence-how-to-build-student-stamina and http://mamaot.com/tips-for-teaching-kids-time-management-planning-and-organization/ If you have any questions or would like assistance implementing any ideas, please email us to schedule a conference time. We apologize, but we are unable to hold impromptu meetings without an appointment. Thank you for understanding. We are still scheduling Great American Teach-In for Nov 16th and still have a little bit of room left 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! 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-Thank you! So much fun! 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) We are continuing 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 continue learning how to write opinion essays. For homework the students will have 2 reading logs, social studies, and spelling activities. Several students had incomplete reading logs this week. Please help them out by checking over their work for completion when you sign off on the Parent Signature box. Thank you for your help with this-you are appreciated! Spelling words & activities: http://sawyertracy.weebly.com/spelling.html This week in Math: In math we will continue discussing area, graphs, all old material, and we will begin a very in-depth unit on addition and subtraction which will include rounding, estimating sums, 3-digits, inverse operations to check work, addition patterns, and using partial products to subtract. (Just a heads up for when we get to it because this is a really popular Facebook meme: Partial products looks a little strange on paper-please remember that it is merely a way to teach mental math-it is a way to *think* about numbers… Of course we know the old way is faster if we have paper-this is to develop a skill for when we do not have paper or so that we do not need it at all.) (Feel free to access Pearsonrealize.com and take a look at those lessons.) Please continue practicing multiplication facts at home and consider things like multiplication.com as an additional resource. This week’s Tenmarks HW assignment is “Comparing Areas.” Monday night’s math homework will be online under assignments at Pearsonrealize.com. Students should look for the lesson number 5-8 and do only that assignment. This week in Social Studies: We will be doing a unit wrap-up project and unit quizzes that will take us through Thanksgiving Break. Remember, there is an ELA/SS homework sent home each Monday that has replaced a Reading Log entry. It will be due each Wednesday. This week in Science: We are beginning Physical Science. We will be focusing on different types of energy, beginning with Light Energy. The online edition that I found does not have the Energy Unit, however there is a great review of this lesson available online at https://www.macmillanmh.com/science/2009/student/ga/grade3/g3_ch12.html The online edition of the textbook does not align exactly, so please look at the table of contents to find corresponding pages for future lessons. http://www.glencoe.com/ebooks/science/9780022877446/ This week in Health: Students will be learning about Type I and Type II diabetes, the body’s use of insulin, and the link between Type II and unhealthy eating. Upcoming Important Dates: Nov 6 Daylight Saving Time Ends Nov 7-16 Student Council Food Drive Nov 11 OXI and Veteran’s Day Celebration Nov 12 Tampa Bay Lighting Game Family Night Nov 14-18 National Anti-Bullying Week Nov 15 Fall picture retakes Nov 16 Great American Teach In-Thank you volunteers!! Nov 17 Chick-Fil-A PTO Spirit Night Nov 18 Kona Ice Nov 19 Dufala Thanksgiving Turkey Donations Nov 21-25 Thanksgiving Break Nov 29 Happy Birthday Mrs. Young! Thank you for all you do! Nov 30 SBLT Dec 1-14 SAT10 Testing Window ______________________________________________ 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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