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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Last week we had the privilege of listening to the fourth/fifth grade chorus. They did an amazing job and put everyone into the holiday spirit!
The first bracket of the MYON reading competition for the Final Four continues into January. Dolvin third grade students currently hold the #1 position out of 90 schools! Students have been encouraged to read the stories for themselves rather than listening to the audio. Students are also asked to write a review/recommendation after each story and these are shared on the MyON site with their classmates. Reading: We are working on our mid-year BAS reading assessments through the remainder of this quarter. 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. They should also know that non-fiction stories provide facts and information and use text features to help clarify the text or provide additional information about the topic. We will continue learning how text features aid in understanding non-fiction text. Students will have an assessment on text features prior to the end of the quarter. Grammar: Students are working 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. Spelling: Students will be working on spelling sort 17 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 creating a booklet on one of the six European explorers that they are studying in social studies. Students have been reading to research the explorer. The booklet will use informational writing and text features and will be graded with a rubric for reading, writing, and social studies grades. Homework Although written homework assignments are not given every week, there are certain expectations that should be met every week. All students should be reading for a minimum of 30 minutes (this can be on Myon)/two lessons per week on I-Ready reading. Students should be practicing writing and reading their spelling words and can do this on Spelling City. In addition, students have many “can do’s” on their reading rotation sheets that can be completed at home for extra practice if you so choose to do so. Dates to Remember: On January 9, we will be having an in-house field trip called “Georgia Rocks”, This is an excellent experience given by naturalists from the Chattahoochee Nature Center and enhances our students’ understanding of the science standards on Rocks and Minerals. The cost of the field trip will be approximately $7.00. More information will be coming home soon. Happy Birthday to: Evan Dec. 17 Welcome back! I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving and restful break, I sure did!! With three weeks left prior to the winter break, students tend to become more chatty. We still have a lot to cover and a lot of work to finish up prior to the break. I have discussed this with the students in both classes today and would greatly appreciate if you could also speak with your child at home about this as well. We need to stay focused and on task through Dec. 20. Thank you for your help with this! 😊
Third Grade Newsletter week of Dec. 2-6, 2019 The first bracket of the MYON reading competition for the Final Four continues into January. Dolvin third grade students currently hold the #1 position and there are now 90 schools competing! It’s encouraging to see that many of our students continued reading over the holidays! Students are encouraged to read non-fiction as well as fiction stories. There are several stories available that will help support their social studies unit on European Explorers. Reading: We will be working on our mid-year BAS reading assessments through the remainder of this quarter. We hopefully expect to see every student progress at least one reading level from where they were in August. We will continue learning how text features aid in understanding non-fiction text. Some examples of non-fiction text features are maps, graphs, bold print, change in font or font color, headings, sub-headings, photographs, illustrations, captions, glossary, index, table of contents, title page, and diagrams. Grammar: Students are reviewing the subject and predicate of sentences as previously learned in first and second grades. By the end of this week they will be learning to identify and write four types of sentences including declarative (statement), interrogative (question), imperative (command) and exclamatory (exclamation). Spelling: Students will be working on spelling sort 16 this week. They received their lists for sorts 16, 17, and 18 today and they are in their purple folders. Writing: We are working on informational writing for the remainder of this quarter. Students are reading non-fiction articles and texts to gather information. They use their research to write their own non-fiction essays on the same topic. In their introductions, students are expected to write a hook sentence in the form of a question, a topic sentence, and three big ideas. The three-paragraph body of their paper includes a topic sentence and details about one of the big ideas for each paragraph. In the conclusion, students answer their hook question and restate their big ideas about the topic. Students will be creating an informational writing booklet on an explorer. This assessment will include reading comprehension and the use of text features, informational writing, and social studies standards. Homework: Myon (they may do this versus iReady), Read 20 minutes daily (this can be done through Myon), a text feature worksheet, subject/predicate worksheet Dates to Remember: December 5 – Sign & Return papers Happy Birthday to: Evan Dec. 17 |
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