Weekly Update 10.30.24
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On October 30, 2024
Be on the Lookout for…
- Folders will come home NEXT Wednesday.
- COGAT testing for ALL 3rd graders is next week on Mon, Wed and Thurs. Please ensure your child is present and on time! Makeups will be given, but it’s helpful to know ahad of time if your child will be out.
- Field trip forms came home last week. We will be heading to the Greensboro Science Center on Friday, March 21st, 2025. Please read the information carefully and fill out ALL required paperwork (front and back) ASAP.
- Beginning this year, Wake County’s preferred method of payment is SchoolCash Online (wcpss.schoolcashonline.com) It only takes a few minutes to set up your account and you can quickly and safely pay for your student’s field trip online. No more need to send cash or checks to school anymore. All methods of payment are the same amount.
- We would love to have chaperones for this field trip. If you are interested, please message me on Talking Points OR write on the returned form expressing interest.
- Upcoming teacher workdays are Fri, Nov 1st (Happy Diwali) , Tues Nov 11th (Happy Election Day) and Mon, Nov 11th (Happy Veterans Day). There is no school for students on those days.
- Thank you for all the donations for our class basket- I can’t wait to see you at the fall festival!
- 1st quarter report cards come home Friday, November 8th. I will hold parent teacher conferences that week. You can choose virtual or in person. Please sign up for those conferences here.
- 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. Today we had an art museum style showcase where students will display their final products and get to learn about the challenges of their peers. Click here to view pics from our presentations and celebration! word-letscelebrate
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: We are studying the States of Matter and how states can change from one to another.
