We had such a fun week! Our trip to Tellus Museum (pictures from that coming soon) , electronics day, and the Tritt-Mazing Race were all a huge success. Thank you to everyone for supporting us in everything.
REMINDERS:- Monday, October 30 we will hear all the great book reports/recommendations. -Tuesday, Oct. 31 is our costume/pj day the children won. Any child who doesn't want to wear a costume may wear their pjs. I'll be in mine! There is also no homework that night. -Please return the permission slip sent home last week for the two historical figures making a special visit to Tritt. - Square One Art also came home on Friday. If you are ordering please send that in this week. - Help your child study their 2s and 3s tables. We will test on those tomorrow(Monday) and then we will add the 4s. NEXT WEEK: Math - We will spend most of our time learning to use the distributive property to solve 2 digit by 1 digit multiplication problems, but will also continue to review the associative, identity, commutative, and zero properties. Reading - Students will learn to expand their vocabulary by using prefixes and suffixes to help determine words' meanings. Our novel study will be complete as we finish reading Because of Winn Dixie and analyze/write about the theme of friendship that weaves itself through the book. Writing - Each child will add facts to their informational writing piece completing the organizational part of our unit. Plus parent journals are back on Friday. Social Studies - Our study of the early explorers begins with a general overview and a study of Christopher Columbus. STEM - On Halloween we will have some fun with a STEM challenge involving candy corn and catapults. And then it's November! That's hard to believe. Have a great week!
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Thank you all for coming in and being so supportive during our conferences! I enjoyed talking with you and discussing our goals for your child. Next week I'll be communicating those goals to each child. If we include them in the planning they'll be more successful!
Our only PTA fundraiser for the year has started! Benson's Beasts (voted on by your children, of course) are ready to earn the incentives. The first collection day is Monday. Please help us earn our first goal by letting your child call grandparents, etc. We need to raise $575 which is $25 per child to make our first goal! The PTA plans on removing all those annoying wood chips from the playground and replacing them with the safer padding, repaint the peeling gym, sponsoring all the great family fun events we love, and providing the grants for the grade levels. PLUS 20% of what we raise comes directly back to OUR classroom. Thanks for your help!! The pictures below are from our writing celebration last Friday with our K book buddies. The students did a great job sharing their final narrative piece and we all enjoyed the goodies. Thanks for sending those in for us. After the celebration the kids completed compliment cards for 2 of the stories they heard. Hopefully, you saw those in your child's folder last week. The stories are now on display in the hallway. When you come for your conference please read your child's story. I'm going to give you some compliment cards to complete and leave in a basket for them. We will give them out at the end of the week. It is so important for us to celebrate their great writing. In your child's folder is a letter explaining a web based program called See Saw. Some of you are familiar with it from last year. So many of the activities we do now are not worksheets that can be sent home for you to see. We will use See Saw to post some of the work completed in class, so you can see some of your child's accomplishments. Next week we will continue to read Because of Winn Dixie, learn division strategies, and begin a new writing unit on informational writing. Remember that it is early release. I look forward to meeting with all of you during our conferences. Thanks to everyone for confirming the conference schedule. I look forward to meeting with all of you. It's been a great week in our class after a week off.
Questions to ask your child: - What are the differences in common and proper nouns? And concrete and abstract nouns? - What are some American Indian cultures you've studied? What have you learned about their housing and WHY did they have that type of housing? - What is your personal narrative about? NEXT WEEK: Math - Division will be introduced and its relationship to multiplication. Reading - Students will be excited to start our first class novel study. As they read Because of Winn Dixie students will learn new reading strategies and apply the ones we've already studied. Writing - An important part of third grade is learning to respond to questions about reading and to cite evidence from the text that supports/proves your answer. I will spend time modeling |
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