Third Grade News – Week of October 15-18, 2019
Last week we completed the first quarter of school. Your children learned many new things in the past nine weeks. Besides their academic lessons, they have worked on routines and procedures, expectations for their behavior in all areas of the school, and the Seven Mindsets lessons Everything is Possible and We are Connected. Report cards will be sent home on Thursday October 17. Please review them with your child. There shouldn’t be any surprises. Remember, grades are a reflection of students’ progress to date, not a final grade. Reading: This quarter we will be working on informational reading. We will begin this week with lessons on finding the main idea and supporting details in informational passages. We will continue to use highlighters and Post-It notes to indicate evidence of the standards in our readings. Grammar: Students will be focusing on pronouns this week. Spelling: Starting this week, we are going to change the way that we administer the spelling quizzes. Students will have a spelling quiz every Friday on one sort. They will be given 12 words on each quiz. This week they will have a quiz on sort 10. They will continue to receive the spelling lists with three sorts at a time. Students may practice their spelling words at the following site: https://www.spellingcity.com/users/clarkkw Once on the website, they need to look on the left side for My Home Page and click there to find the lists for 3rd. The spelling lists are not in groups, so they will have to scroll through the list to find the current week’s words. Writing: Students will complete their summative writing assessment on narrative writing. We will then work on constructive responses with informational writing using the TEACH method. This stands for Topic Sentence, Evidence, Additional Evidence, Conclusion, Have Another Look. Dates to Remember: October 16 – Fall Picture Make-Ups, Student Council meeting October 17 – Mustache Day October 18 – Walk to school and dress like a P.E. teacher October 21 - 25 – Bus Driver Appreciation Week October 21, 22, 24 – ITBS testing Please make sure your child gets a good night’s sleep Happy Birthday to: October 1- Jacob October 13- Clio
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