Upcoming Dates
- Family Lunch Fridays - Our campus is open each Friday for lunch visitors! When you arrive you will sign in at the front office and receive a visitor badge that must be worn at all times. You will need a photo ID (license or passport). You will be able to eat lunch with your child at the designated tables for lunch visitors. You may only eat with your child. No other learners may be invited to eat with you. You may purchase lunch in the cafeteria or bring a lunch with you. Parents will be dismissed from the cafeteria. You will need to go back through the front office to sign out at the end of lunchtime. Please see Ms. Martin's Principal Newsletter for details on who may eat with your child and a form to fill out for non-parent lunch visitors. No lunch visitors on early release days.
- Background Checks - If you have not had a chance to fill out a background check please fill one out for yourself or update last year's! Click here to register as a new volunteer or confirm your information from last year. This must be completed every school year for you to volunteer at the school. The district will send you an email when your background check has cleared. Any opportunities for volunteering at the school, including holiday parties, will require a cleared background check. Once completed it lasts for the remainder of the school year. When you create your account, make sure to click on the add new application button. (see picture below)
- Background Checks - If you have not had a chance to fill out a background check please fill one out for yourself or update last year's! Click here to register as a new volunteer or confirm your information from last year. This must be completed every school year for you to volunteer at the school. The district will send you an email when your background check has cleared. Any opportunities for volunteering at the school, including holiday parties, will require a cleared background check. Once completed it lasts for the remainder of the school year. When you create your account, make sure to click on the add new application button. (see picture below)
Math
Geometry is one of those units in math that is full of useful, everyday information like: what is the name of a 12-sided figure? (The answer is dodecagon.) And, a parallelogram can be square, but a square is, in fact, always a parallelogram. Now, you may be thinking some version of “there’s no way a 3rd grader has to know that”, but you would be, in fact, wrong. These precious children have to know their 2D shapes from a 3-sided figure up to a 12-sided figure, and next week, we’ll focus solely on quadrilaterals and their attributes, as well as which ones overlap (see the ridiculous sentence above about squares and parallelograms). Please take a moment to look at the geometry Keynote on their ipad. It was made by our wonderful Digital Learning Coach, Courtney Tinch. Please DO NOT have your kiddo work on this Keynote at home, however! We are doing it in class as we learn, but we thought that in this unit FULL of new vocabulary, it would be good to have a place to store their learning. Plus, it’s also great for parents to have a reference instead of having to break out that high school geometry textbook from the 90s. You’re welcome. Quadrilaterals, LET’S GOOOO!
Science
Zzzzoooooommmm! Fast land changes is what is up next! Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Landslides and Tsunamis, OH MY! We will explore the causes and effects of each fast land change.
Reading/Writing
Characters in stories are like people in life…they can change as the story goes on and there may be reasons for behaviors they exhibit. We will look deeper into our Because of Winn Dixie characters and explore possibilities of why they behave in certain ways. As our kiddos read their own books in Reader’s Workshop, they will evaluate and respond in their reading journals a deeper reflection of their characters’ behaviors. In writing, we will continue to plan and organize our persuasive pieces with graphic organizers, while adding strong details to develop and support their ideas.
Social Studies
We are wrapping up our study of maps and will be rolling into the beginning of our unit on ECONOMICS!!! We will begin by learning all about personal financial literacy. We will explore different ways of earning, spending, saving and donating money. We have an exciting digital journal to document and reflect on what we are learning and a fun, digital “Game of Life”, in which the kiddos can explore what happens as you make personal, financial decisions!
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