We are so proud of our third-grade students at Dolvin Elementary and the amount of reading they are doing for the Final Four reading competition! Our students together have read about 82,000 minutes and are currently in first place with a 15,000 point lead. We also have five Dolvin students amongst the top ten readers across Fulton County.
One of the greatest rewards we have seen from this reading program is improved reading skills. Students love reading these stories and are saddened when it is time to move on to other schoolwork. In addition to encouraging a love of reading and improved reading and comprehension skills, myON Read to the Final Four has just released a list of spectacular prizes. Look for it at the end of this newsletter. We encourage students to continue reading for the final four during the winter holidays. Today students will bring home a field trip permission slip for our in-house field trip titled Georgia Rocks. This learning opportunity will be presented by naturalists from Chattahoochee Nature Center in the classrooms on January 9. Please return the signed permission slip and payment this week. Payment of $7 may be made online using the following link. https://osp.osmsinc.com/FultonGA/BVModules/ProductTemplates/Bvc2013/Product.aspx?productid=EN512-268 REMINDER- parents that they need to choose their homeroom teacher from the drop box. Friday December 20 is the last day of quarter 2 and semester 1. Please check your child’s grades in Infinite Campus for incomplete and missing assignments. It is your child’s responsibility to make up all incomplete and missed work before the winter party on Friday. Reading: We are completing our mid-year BAS reading assessments this week. We hopefully expect to see every student progress at least one reading level from where they were in August. On every BAS assessment, students are expected to identify the genre of the story. They should know that realistic fiction stories are made up but could be based on events that could happen in real life. Fiction stories also have characters and settings. They should also know that non-fiction stories include facts and information and use text features to help clarify the text or provide additional information about the topic. This Wednesday all students will have a summative assessment on text features. Students should be reviewing the resources in their interactive notebooks. Grammar: Students are continuing to work on sentence structure and how to identify and correctly use declarative (statement), interrogative (question), imperative (command) and exclamatory (exclamation) sentences. They are also learning to use the appropriate punctuation with each type of sentence. There will be a test this Thursday covering verbs (3 verb tense), subject/predicate, and the types of sentences. Notes are in their grammar journal as well as the website. Spelling: Students will be working on spelling sort 18 this week. Beginning in January, we will be calling these phonics assessments since we focus on the phonics of each word rather than memorizing the spelling. We expect students to not only be able to identify the phonics pattern in the words presented in the list, but to be able to spontaneously read this pattern in other words. Writing: This week students will be completing a booklet on one of the six European explorers that they are studying in social studies. Students have read and taken notes for their research. They have been given the checklist on which they will be graded. The booklet will use informational writing and text features and will be graded for reading, writing, and social studies grades. Homework All students should be reading for a minimum of 30 minutes/two lessons per week on I-Ready reading. Students should be practicing writing and reading their spelling words and can also practice on Spelling City. All students can use the reading for the Final Four every night for their 30 minutes by logging into ClassLink/LaunchPad and logging in with their 10-digit students ID and 8-digit birthdate. In addition, students have many “can do’s” on their reading rotation sheets that be completed at home for extra practice. Dates to Remember: 12/20 – Third grade winter parties – 11:15-12:00, Crazy Sock Day 1/ 6/20 – Second semester of school begins 1/9/20 – In-house field trip “Georgia Rocks” 1/10/20 – Spirit Day Happy Birthday to: Evan Dec. 17
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