Good morning Parents and students!
I know you have all received several emails from the school, school system, and myself already. It all may seem a little overwhelming, please know I am here to help in any way I can! The 3rd Grade Team has plans to begin implementing Digital Learning. Digital Learning (TeleSchool) will start today, Monday, March 16th. The link for the first 5 days of Digital Learning is posted on the www.dolvin.org website. Here is the direct link for 3rd grade assignments: https://dolvindigitallearningday.weebly.com/third-grade1.html These first 5 days of learning are mandated by the district; however, the remainder of the plans will be provided by the 3rd Grade Team using the Google Classroom platform. I sent out an email last Friday providing directions to logging into the Google Classroom with the class code for the second week (March 23rd-27th). Some of you have already successfully logged into this platform. I will be sending your child an email today using google classroom. I would like your child to respond to the email for a test run. If you have any questions, please let me know. Thank you for your flexibility, support and patience during these uncertain times. This is a learning curve for us all. Please help ease your child’s anxiety and know that the entire 3rd Grade Team is here to support each and every student. Each of us will be available by email from 7:10am-3:10pm Monday through Friday. Please do not hesitate to ask any questions. As always, please feel free to reach out if you have any questions! I am here to support you and your child the best I can. 😊 Thank you, Mrs. Hogan
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What: Chick-fil-A Spirit Night
Where: Chick-fil-A at Alpharetta Commons Date: Tuesday, March 10th Time: All day!! Students/parents may visit all day. Families must say they are from Dolvin for the school to get credit. Why: To support Dolvin and “Eat more Chikin!” The class with the most participation wins a chicken biscuit party, so don’t forget to tell them who your teacher is! I am amazed at how much reading our students did over the weekend to move us into the Elite 8 of the Read to the Final Four competition. There are now two teams remaining in each of the four regions. Teamwork makes the dream work! We’re going to need all students reading this week to move on to win the final round for our region on Monday March 9. Tara Elementary in Clayton County is going to give us some tough competition. We would love to bring this win home for Dolvin and Fulton County because this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Our students have already done such an amazing job competing against 90 schools in our region in the Tip Off and still hanging in there as one of the final two teams. WOW! Go to this link to see more information: https://readtothefinalfour.renaissance.com Reading: This week we will complete our initial study of figurative language with a summative assessment at the beginning of next week. We will continue learning about figurative language as we move into our Poetry Unit. Grammar: This week the third-grade students will be reviewing commas in a series, commas in addresses, commas and quotation marks in dialogue, coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, and simple, compound, and complex sentences. They will have a summative assessment on these standards. They will then begin learning about prefixes and suffixes. Spelling: The third-grade students will be working on lesson 27. The words are Syllable Juncture in VCV (vowel consonant vowel) & VCCV (vowel consonant consonant vowel) patterns. For their spelling homework, students can practice their spelling/phonics patterns Spelling City at https://www.spellingcity.com/users/clarkkw They should also practice writing their words several times and look for the words in the stories they are reading. Writing: This week we will continue working on an opinion piece. The students will respond to two articles about the same topic written from different points of view. They will include their own point of view of the passages compared to that of the author. Georgia Milestones: Effective this week, we will begin reviewing our third-grade standards in preparation for Georgia Milestones as well as continuing our regular studies. Review homework will come home periodically from now until the time of the exams in April. While we do review the standards, we don’t make a big deal about Georgia Milestones. As long as students have been participating in class lessons, reviewing resources in their notebooks, completing all classwork and homework, then they should do well on Milestones. Please see the homework section below for information on Coach Digital. Students will have a practice session on Milestones this Thursday so that they can experience the format of the exams. I would also recommend that students work on their assigned lessons in Learning.com through Classlink to practice their typing skills. Homework All students are expected to read for the Final Four every night by logging into Class Link/Launchpad and logging in with their 10-digit student ID and 8-digit birthdate. They should read for a minimum of 20 minutes each night and take the quiz at the conclusion of every book they read. Now that we are in the 2nd semester of school, many of you have asked about how you can help your child prepare for the upcoming Georgia Milestones Assessment. Our AMAZING Dolvin Foundation purchased the rights to the Coach Digital electronic platform for all our students to access from home and school in order to prepare for the assessment. To access the platform, please go to www.coachdigital.com Once there, select Georgia for the first drop down, Fulton County for the second drop down, and Dolvin Elementary for the third drop down. Your child's username is their 10-digit(or 9 digit) lunch number (which they know) and the password is 123456. For parents not sure how to use the tool, click on "Bookshelf" and select third grade and subject. There are about 12 books that show up. The ones that I would recommend are toward the bottom. These books alone provide TONS of study and practice materials. Dates to Remember Exceptional Child Week 3/2 – Dr. Seuss Name Day – Wear a name tag with the name of a character from a Dr. Seuss story. 3/3 – Eat/play with a new friend 3/4- Perform a random act of kindness 3/5 – Wear your Superhero or Dolvin shirt Sign & Return go home. 3/6 – Wear your March Madness Basketball Apparel 3/8 – Read to the Final Four Elite 8 ends 3/11 – Quarter 3 ends 3/12 – Quarter 4 begins Happy Birthday to: 3/1 – Mr. Stein 3/2 – Mrs. Endicott 3/11 – Seth 3/28- Ella |
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