Week of October 26th

 

Fall/Halloween Party

Thank you for your help to make this party fun for all our third graders! We appreciate you and your generosity!

Here are some pictures from the party:

Book Fair - Virtual

The book fair this year will be held virtually. Your student came home with flyers on how to access the Book Fair. We have also posted the link on our Google Classrooms. When you have a chance, have your student show you how they can get to Google Classroom to view the Book Fair! 

 

Fall Conferences

Please keep watch for an email, or message of some sort, from your student's teacher for the link to your fall conference, if you have not already had your conference. This link will connect you with your student's teacher during the time slot that you signed up for.

Reminders

• Students need to bring their water bottles every day.
• Students need to bring a snack every day.
• We are good on extra snacks right now--thank you so very much for your donations!

What We Learned This Week

In Language Arts, we read the book Stellaluna. Students worked with this fictional book to complete their own flipbook of information about it! They established the point of view, they completed a Venn Diagram about bats, etc. Ask them to see their book! This book pairs with the non-fiction we will be reading next week: What If You Had Animal Teeth?

Math was focused on our new unit: time! Students completed work around telling time on analog clocks and determined how much time has elapsed between two points. During Math Workshop, students engaged in various math games to practice skills learned during whole group lessons and participated in additional instruction with teachers.

If you are looking for extra practice opportunities, here are some choices:

Place Value:  3rd Grade, Section B, Activities 1-9 (6 will be a challenge!)

Addition:   3rd Grade, Section C, Activities 1, 2, 6, 9, 12, 15, 16

Subtraction:   3rd Grade, Section D, Activities 1, 2, 6, 7

Rounding:   3rd Grade, Section P, Activities 1, 2, 3, 5, 8

No Social Studies or Science as we have started our Personal Narrative writing unit. Students have brainstormed ideas as well as feelings to write about for their personal narrative. They will complete a graphic organizer, write a rough draft, and publish this writing by the end of the unit!

Word study focused on adding the inflectional ending of "-ed" to the ends of words. Students identified which words needed to be doubled, which needed to drop an "e" and which words did not change at all.

 Next week's word study can be found below!

Word Study Next Week

Here is what your student will need to know how to spell for next week Friday (the 6th):

know, knew, write, wrote, sleep, slept, lead, led