Upcoming Dates
- Valentine's Party - The party will be Tuesday, February 14th from 2:00-3:00! Parents are welcome! Please have your child address a valentine to everyone in their class. You may choose to include a treat or candy if you would like to, but it is not required. We will be making their bags at school. Your child will come home with a class list next week. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to your child's teacher.
- 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
We will begin our Area and Perimeter unit, and we start with learning about perimeter, which is the distance around. Perimeter is a brand new skill for your 3rd grader, and you may be wondering how it feels to be teaching something that is a useful, lifelong skill for the kiddos, and the answer is fantastic. It feels fantastic. Not only are they learning all about perimeter for the first time, they will learn how to find the distance of an unknown side when given the perimeter (add the sides we know then subtract from the perimeter). Finally, they will learn words that should clue them in to it being a perimeter problem, i.e. objects that go around something. Frames, baseboards, fences, borders, ribbons, and trims are all examples of objects that go around, or outline the perimeter of something. Perimeter makes the world go ‘round! (See what I did there?)
Science
We are finishing up our Earth’s Surface unit by taking a look at scientists in this field. Who knows…maybe one of our fearless 3rd graders will become a Volcanologist!
Reading/Writing
We will be analyzing the plot of our latest read aloud, Because of Winn Dixie. We will compare the sequence of events to a mountain, with the peak representing the climax of the story. We will discuss and explore what our characters learned and what big issues were resolved. In Reader’s Workshop, we will continue to compare themes or lessons in our own reading. We will continue to explore common themes in fiction texts. In writing, we will continue to follow the writing process to produce our persuasive pieces. We will plan and organize our persuasive pieces with graphic organizers, while adding strong details to develop and support our ideas.
Social Studies
This week we will work on identifying reasons budgets are created. We will highlight needs in areas of saving and spending through creative role play and games. We will explore different ways of earning, spending, saving and donating money. We have an exciting digital journal to continue working on and we will dive into the digital “Game of Life”.
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