Upcoming Dates
September 21 - Virtual PTO Meeting
October 7th - Early Release @ 12:30
October 8th - Student Holiday - Elementary Conference day
October 11th - No School
Conferences
Be on the lookout for an email home soon to sign up for conferences. We will be doing these virtually via Zoom this year and will begin these the week of Oct. 4th.
Fidgets
While fidgets can be very helpful for some learners, we are finding that they are becoming a distraction for most kids. We ask that, unless you have had a direct conversation with your child’s teacher regarding the use of fidgets, please help remind your child to leave these at home.
Pokemon Cards
Many of the kids are bringing their Pokemon cards from home to share and trade during recess. We are completely fine with that! We just ask that you help reiterate that this is an activity for recess only. We will have a class discussion about it as well. Thank you for your help with this.
iPads
Please help your child remember to charge their iPad each night. Now that we are getting into swing of things with school, we will be using the iPads more and it is important that they come to school with it already charged.
Math
Okay, if you were excited to learn rounding, then buckle up, Buttercup, because we have addition and subtraction using the algorithm coming up next week! Woohoo! We will finish up rounding and take a Schoology check, we will estimate sums and differences, and then...ADDING AND SUBTRACTING! This is a 2nd grade skill, so we add on for 3rd is by adding and subtracting numbers with higher place values. We will practice regrouping - “carrying the one” and “borrowing” - and we will practice subtracting across zeros. It’s gonna be wild!
Science
Next week in Science, we will be exploring the States of Matter (solid, liquid and gas). We will look at the properties of each and have a scavenger hunt around the school identifying them. We will also begin to explore changing states of matter by examining what causes freezing and melting to occur.
Reading/Writing
Next week in reading, we will continue retelling nonfiction stories, using higher level predictions and will learn all about using strategies to figure out hard words. We will continue to challenge our thinking with comprehension checks. In writing, we will continue writing narrative stories while focusing on the parts of narrative stories.
Social Studies
In Social Studies, we will complete our Communities and Culture Unit by sharing their culture projects that they have been working so hard on!
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