Weekly Update 10.24.23
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On October 24, 2023
Be on the Lookout for…
- No Tuesday folders this week. Look for a full folder next week!
- 🙋🙋♀️✌️Tomorrow will be the last day for our friend Geovanny. We wish him well in Mexico and hope to see him again one day soon!
- Next week there is NO school Nov 1st for a Teacher Workday.
- 📚📖The Book Fair will be from October 20-30. Our Class will go shopping at the Book Fair during their technology special. You can send in money for your child to shop or you can pre-purchase a book fair certificate here and they will receive a “ gift certificate” during their shop time. https://kidcredit.bedfordfallsusa.com/kidCredit.php?fairID=15739 We will preview the Book Fair this week. You can also shop at the Book Fair during the Fall Festival word- books
- 🪅🇲🇽🌮 Our end of quarter reading celebration is THIS Friday, October 27th. I will serve tortilla chips with salsa and guacamole. Please let me know if you are NOT ok with your child sampling those foods.
- 📚🕵️Would you be interested in being a mystery reader in our classroom? This is great for parents, grandparents, or maybe even high school age or older siblings. All you have to do is choose a date, and send me 3 fun facts/clues about yourself. The students will have fun trying to guess who is coming to read that day. This will be 15-20 mins at either 12:45 or 2:00 pm. You can choose a book or I can pick one for you. Please check the link here to sign up. I will post more slots in January.
- Please see featured image for dress up opportunities to spirit week next week!
- 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. word- conference time 👩🏫🏫
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 also reading 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! 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
