Weekly Update 2.26.25
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On February 26, 2025
Be on the lookout:
- This Friday we encourage 3rd graders to dress in BLUE for school spirit!
- Student folders will come home FRIDAY rather than Wednesday with student work samples and 3rd quarter interim reports.
- Our school will participate in Boosterthon which begins next week March 3-11 with a Fun Run on Tuesday 3/11 at 9:30-10:30. This is a fun week for students and a great way to raise funds for special things here at school. More info to come later this week via Talking Points!
- In the season of allergies and sniffles we are running low on tissues. If you are able to send a box in for our classroom we would appreciate it!
- ❄️Due to snow cancellations, there are no more teacher workdays this year. I understand some of you may have planned to be away so PLEASE let me know a couple days ahead of time if your child will be absent March 14, April 7, or May 2. I would like to maximize instructional time as much as possible!
- ✖️Timed multiplication quizzes continue this week. Your child has an icecream sundae sheet in their agenda to keep track of their successes with these 1 minute timed quizzes. There are 16 questions on each quiz and students pass with a 15/16 or better. If they do NOT pass, there will be a makeup opportunity each Friday during arrival. All quizzes will come home the day they are taken and will be located inside the plastic X sundae page. Please do what you can to help prepare your child for these fun and important assessments!
- Our field trip is around the corner to the Greensboro Science Museum. More details coming soon, but please plan to drop students to school between 7:45-8:00am. We will return between 3:00-3:30pm for regular dismissal.
This week in Literacy:
Throughout the month of February our class will recognize the contributions of prominent Black Americans through stories, research, music, and art. Keep that conversation going at home asking them about who they learned about each day!
Students will have a new reading incentive FRIDAY in their agendas. Please be on the lookout for:
️Reading passport- Students have until Friday, March 28th (day before spring break) to “Read Across America”. Each 20 minutes of reading equals a new state stamped by me in class on their passport. If they reach the goal of 1000 minutes by the deadline, they will be invited to an afterschool Luau to celebrate their reading stamina! All YOU have to do parents is acknowledge the reading titles and minutes each night at the bottom of agendas. Students are of course encouraged to read over weekends too:) This is meant to be FUN; please be sure your child isn’t stressing and staying up until midnight reading! Thank you for supporting your child as we push them to be voracious readers with improved reading stamina! word-HawaiiOrBust
In Module 3 we will focus on reading classic chapter books. As a class will will dive deep into Peter Pan by JM Barrie and use this text to explore text dependent questions, character traits, point of view, theme, and more! Please check for any classics you can get your hands on to share at home. A list of some great classics can be found here.
This week in Math:
Students are continuing a lengthy, but exciting Fractions unit. Lots of vocab is important in understanding this concept. Here is a parent guide for helping you and your student understand our main learning outcomes
Current vocab: numerator, denominator, unit fraction, partition, number line, visual model
This week in Science:
3.E.1 Recognize the major components and patterns observed in the Earth/Moon/Sun system. 3.E.1.1 Recognize that the Earth is part of a system called the solar system that includes the sun (a star), planets, and many moons and the Earth is the third planet from the sun in our solar system. 3.E.1.2 Recognize that changes in the length and direction of an object’s shadow indicate the apparent changing position of the Sun during the day although the patterns of the stars in the sky, to include the Sun, stay the same.
