Weekly Update 10.31.23
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On October 31, 2023
Be on the Lookout for…
- Tuesday Folders will come home FRIDAY along with 1st quarter report cards.
- There is NO school tomorrow, Nov 1st for a Teacher Workday. Other upcoming days off are Tues, Nov 7 (Election Day) and Fri, Nov 11 (Veterans Day).
- Fall parent teacher conference are approaching. I can’t wait to meet with you and discuss your child’s progress thus far in 3rd grade! Please click here to sign up for a 20 minute slot.
- Attached here is a presentation by Mrs. Holland, our AIG teacher about the Explorers program. Students have COGAT testing this week on Mon, Thurs and Fri.
- Have too much Halloween candy?? Send it in with your child for our class candy bucket!
This week in Literacy:
Students will finalize their own Overcoming Reading Challenges essay and create a keepsake bookmark. On Friday we will have an art museum style showcase where students will display their final products and get to learn about the challenges of their peers.
We are finishing Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery as a class. Ask your child what Chester and Harold are up to!
Our next read aloud starting November 2nd will be Peter Brown’s The Wild Robot. Students are way more engaged when they have their OWN copy of the read aloud. I have a few to share, but if you’d love to give your child a copy to keep, I promise you won’t regret it! Roz and her animal friends are the best, and the book now has 3 in the series! word- WildRobot Wild Robot on Amazon Wild Robot at Target
This week in Math:
We are working in Unit 3, which is stories with Addition and Subtraction. This unit always proves to be tricky for students. Please view the parent guide to help you assist your child and understand the various addition and subtraction lingo.
There are some cheat sheets in agendas . Please keep those in agendas so they can be used at school and at home during unit 3 which focuses on a variety of addition and subtraction of methods. We do teach regrouping as a strategy this year (yay, finally the way you learned growing up), but it is alongside the methods they have been taught previously to ensure core understanding. Some of these may NOT be familiar to you as parents so it is VERY important to use the example coming home from what students did that day. Some very helpful parent links to what we are doing can be found here: Place Value Addition Show All Totals/Partial Sums Addition on a # Line Place Value Subtraction Subtraction on a Number Line
This quarter in Science: In 1st quarter students will focus on exploring force and motion
