Monday, September 15th-Friday, September 19th - Book Fair (See information below)
Friday, September 19th - Special Friends Day (3rd Grade 8:15-9:15) - more details below
Friday, September 26th - Fall Frolic Run for Kinder-5th (3rd Grade Specials - 10:20)
Friday, October 3rd - First Family Friday Lunch - more details to come! (3rd Grade @ 12:30)
Book Fair
Shopping begins in the library:
Monday, September 15th - Friday, September 19th
Parents are invited to shop with their children before school Monday - Friday from 7:20-7:40 a.m. and after school Monday - Thursday from 3:00-3:30 p.m.
Learners who are shopping independently will shop during their recess.
The book fair will be open during Special Friends Day on Friday September 19th.
Say goodbye to cash and hello to eWallet—your child’s digital payment account. Set up eWallet at the link below for worry-free, cash-free purchases. Anyone can contribute! Share each child’s eWallet so friends and family can add funds and give your kids more books to enjoy. Unused money will rollover for future Scholastic book fairs.
https://www.scholastic.com/bf/towncenterelementaryschool
Thanks for supporting book choice and TCE!
Kate Mancuso, TCE Librarian Special Friends Day
In Reading class this week, we will continue our interactive read aloud of Frindle, by Andrew Clements. Our readers will practice context clues strategies - what to do when you come to a word you don’t know as a reader.
Our word work pattern this week is to explore vowel patterns that make the long o sound. We will practice reading and writing words like load, shadow and almost.
Writing and Grammar - Our super writers have begun the process of writing a personal narrative. This week, they will continue the brainstorming process and begin drafting their small moment story.
The grammar skill this week is using pronouns to substitute for nouns. Ask your child which pronouns we use when writing a personal narrative. They should be able to tell you!
Math - Okay, parents! Regrouping! Status check: how are we? Do we know what that means and how to do it? Please have your kiddos show you how to do this problem: 532-184. Have them draw the place value blocks and show you what “borrowing” really means. We are regrouping that greater number on top so that we can use the algorithm to subtract. BIG BIG things happening up here in 3rd grade math! Your child might not have mastered this skill yet, but he or she should be able to show you some progress. We will continue to practice addition and subtraction this week, but the numbers will be in the context of word problems that have to do with buying camping supplies, football and baseball cards, and carnival food. Corndogs, anyone?
A big skill for Monday will be subtracting across zeros; for example 1,000-629. They’ll learn how to deal with all those 0s in that top number, and it’s going to be a party. We’re here for it!
Science - In Science we will use our knowledge of properties of matter to start exploring the different states of matter…solid, liquid and gas! We will look at what properties each state has and what the molecules that make up each are doing.
Social Studies - Next week we will explore cultures and customs! What better way to learn about different cultures, than to have the kids teach us about theirs! Each learner will work on an in class project that highlights their culture. They are coming home with an Interview sheet. The purpose of this is so that they can talk with you about it beforehand and will have the information already written down for them to use. We also sent the same page home in a separate email.
Here are a couple of pictures of our 9/11 Remembrance posters from this week:
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