Weekly Update 9.11.24
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On September 11, 2024
Be on the Lookout for…
- Tuesday folders are coming home today. Work samples will make their way home every few weeks. Please take time to review your child’s work and discuss their successes and areas for improvement. I do NOT need these samples back.
- Please MARK YOUR CALENDAR for curriculum night- Thurs Sept 19th. This is for parents only and will go over testing and specifics for your 3rd grader.
- 5:30 Doors Open
- Session A 5:40-6:10
- Session B (repeat of Session A) 6:20-6:50 word-curriculum night
- Information on “Mystery Reader” will be coming home next week. Think about if you or a loved one would like to come into our class to be a surprise reader to our class!
- Upcoming teacher workdays are Fri, September 20th, Thur, October 3rd and Mon, October 14th. There is no school for students on those days.
This week in Literacy:
Students are nearly finished with beginning of year reading benchmarks, yay!
We are continuing our reading about overcoming learning challenges from around the world. So far we have been to Columbia, and Chad and Afghanistan! Our new reading curriculum is a big learning challenge in itself, but students are working hard to seek evidence to prove their thoughts and answers.
Thank you for ensuring your child reads at LEAST 10 minutes a day at home. You can write their minutes at the bottom of agendas next to the day of the week. word-readingrules
This week in Math:
We are continuing to connect repeated addition and patterns to open our minds to multiplication and division concepts. Memorization of facts is not the goal (YET…) rather, I want to ensure students know when and WHY multiplication should be used. There are tons of great resources for this skill- please check some out here in this amazing math review resource organized by skill.
This quarter in Social Studies:
Students will learn about the structure of local, state and national government. We will create a classroom government as well and vote on a variety of real and imagined scenarios. Take time to highlight government in action when you are utilizing libraries, parks, roads, and more!
