Weekly Update 11.6.23
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On November 6, 2023
Be on the Lookout for…
- Tuesday Folders came home FRIDAY. 1st quarter report cards will come home this Thursday, November 9th.
- There is no school tomorrow Tues, Nov 7 (Election Day) and Fri, Nov 11 (Veterans Day).
- Fall parent teacher conference begin THIS week. Have you signed up? 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 begin Module 2 this week where we will explore the wild world of frogs in fiction and nonfiction! We will be reading and writing narratives through Poems and Pourquoi Tales about Frogs. We have already defined the French word and it’s meaning and are excited to explore many tales that explain the origin or reasoning behind something. Even if modern science debunks some of these, they are fun to think about! word- pourquoi
Today we started our next read aloud: 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! Wild Robot on Amazon Wild Robot at Target
This week in Math:
We are wrapping up 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 2nd quarter, students will learn about human body systems; specifically skeletal, muscular and skin.
