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Weekly Update 10.9.18

By In News & Updates On October 9, 2018

Tuesday Folders are coming home today and contain school paperwork and information.

Be on the Lookout for…

  • Mark your calendar and please plan to attend 3rd grade’s Curriculum Night on Tuesday, October 23rd at 6:00 in our media center.  It should last about 45 minutes minutes. This session is for parents only. This will be a chance for you to interact with our curriculum, ask classroom questions, and see some of the things your 3rd grader has been working on.
  • 1st quarter conferences will take place the week of October 29-Nov 2. Mark your calendars! A signup genius will come to you later this week.
  • We are in need of paper towel and toilet paper rolls for our mini food trucks. Please send these in as soon as you can!
  • Field trip details and payment information came home in a packet last week. Please take your time and read carefully. Make sure all necessary forms are completely filled out. Money will be collected October 2nd-25th. The online school payment (OSP) system is HIGHLY encouraged so large amounts of money is not in the hands of children and I am not using instructional time to receipt money. All paperwork should be returned ASAP. We are accepting unlimited chaperones for our 1st trip to the Science Museum on November 2nd, however you must be a registered WCPSS volunteer which you can do in person at the Oakview office and you will pay a $10 chaperone fee on OSP. If you are interested in chaperoning a student group, please dojo Mrs. Vaughan and let her know. If you cannot locate the field trip packet, please let me know ASAP and I can send another!
  • Students now have a blue cheat sheet with all their logins and passwords to help you access these items from home. This includes: GSuite (Drive, Docs, Classroom, Drawings, etc), Education Galaxy, BrainPop, Big Universe, and Flipgrid. Students also have an EPIC! account, but that can only be utilized inside the school. Please keep this precious sheet in agendas so students always have it!
  • I am excited to announce that students began working on Education Galaxy this week! This program is a great digital tool that students can use at school and at home. It is a tool for seeing how students are doing on current grade level curriculum. and also provides an individualized path for students to work on areas they struggle with. The format is engaging, competitive, and fast moving. Students are welcome to use this resource as much as they like at home, and will sometimes have homework assignments to complete it (Like in math this week). word-Education Galaxy
  • The Carolina Hurricanes are partnering with WCPSS for a 2nd year to promote reading. With each 20 minute segment that a student reads, they log their reading on the  Readvolution website (there’s a hurricane in their portal to click on).

This week in Literacy:

  • We are also learning about characters- their traits and motivation, and how their actions impact the story. Students will practice telling basic story elements and answering right there questions.
  • Students are continuing work on their Food Truck Business Plans and preparing for the rodeo on October 17th!

This week in Math:

We are continuing to do a variety of addition and subtraction of methods.  Some of these may NOT be familiar to you as parents so it is VERY important to use the pink sheet example in agendas. 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

I am noticing some major gaps in what students SHOULD know, so please look over assignments with them to ensure they understand. If frustration levels are reached, write me a note or send me an email. I want to address it asap!

This quarter in social studies: In 1st quarter, students will learn about Economics and Financial Literacy

Objectives for this quarter are:

3.E.1 Understand how the location of regions affects activity in a market economy.
3.E.2 Understand entrepreneurship in a market economy.


This quarter in science: In 1st quarter students will focus on Objects In the Sky

Objectives for this quarter are:

3.E.1 Recognize the major components and patterns observed in the Earth/Moon/Sun system.
3.E.2 Compare the structure of the Earth’s surface using models or three-dimensional diagrams.

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