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September 18 – 22
Open House is Tuesday, September 26th from 6:00-7:30. Your child is PUMPED to be your tour guide and show you what has been going on in 3rd grade so far! We hope to see you there!
Don’t forget to order your Fall Festival shirt! Order forms were sent home today. They are due by Monday!
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September 11 – 15
100% of our class was wearing RED or an R.B. Hunt shirt today! WOO HOO!
We begin each day with a “Morning Meeting” and share two good things to start our day on the right track. Answers this week ranged from “It felt colder outside this morning!” to “I have my first soccer practice on turf tonight!” Ask your child what their “2 good things” they shared today were!
Picture Day is Thursday, September 21st. Order forms were sent home this week. Don’t forget to dress for success!
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August 28th – September 1st
STAR reading scores are going home in red folders today. The best habit you can get your child into is reading EVERY. SINGLE. DAY!
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August 21 – 25
Fingers crossed A.R. will be up and running next week! I am just as ready as the students are. Please remind your child to write down any books they finish so they can take the test when A.R. is available!
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August 14-18
A mistake was made in my original flipbook you took home at Meet the Teacher. Tiffany Hogan is our Room Parent this year. She will be in touch soon with important information. 🙂
Please help your child memorize their username and password for computer access. This info can be found on the back of their red folder. They will need this to log into any computer on campus as well as logging into Clever. The faster they memorize this, the faster they can get to work. Thanks for your help!
Don’t forget to pack a delicious and nutritious snack daily. We eat “brunch” at 10:30 and students are ravenous by the afternoon. Please also be mindful of the allergies in our class. A note was sent home last week from the nurse. Email me with any questions or concerns.
We are currently reading Muggie Maggie by Beverly Cleary as our class novel. Please let me know if you would like me to provide an alternative assignment for your child.
Students took their first formative assessment in ELA today. The tests will go home in their red folder and I will input their grades into HAC this afternoon. Please keep up with this weekly to make sure your child is on track so there are no surprises when report cards go out. If you need any help logging into HAC, please contact Wendy Thurston at the front office. Her email is: [email protected]
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Welcome to 3rd Grade!
Meet the teacher – August 9th 9:00 – 11:00! I can’t wait to meet you!
Homework
Please check your child’s red folder every day. He/she will be expected to read a minimum of 20 minutes per night. There will be additional math homework assignments, but THE MOST IMPORTANT habit your child can develop for academic success is to set aside a consistent time for independent reading every day. They should have a book on their level from our Media Center at all times. Once they have finished reading it, they will be expected to take the AR quiz before checking out another book. If your child is absent, please call the school or email me, so I can prepare their make-up assignments.
When he/she asks, “Why can’t I skip my 20 minutes of reading tonight?”, please consider the following –
Student A reads 20 minutes, five nights of every week;
Student B reads only 4 minutes a night…or not at all!
Step 1: Multiply minutes a night X 5 times each week.
Student A reads 20 min. X 5 times a week = 100 minutes minutes a week;
Student B reads 4 min. X 5 times a week = 20 minutes.
Step 2: Multiply minutes a week X 4 times each month.
Student A reads 400 minutes a month;
Student B reads 80 minutes a month.
Step 3: Multiply minutes a month X 9 months.
Student A reads 3,600 minutes in a school year;
Student B reads 720 min. in a school year.
Student A practices reading the equivalent of 10 whole school days a year.
Student B gets the equivalent of only 2 school days of reading practice.
By the end of 6th grade if Student A and Student B maintain these same reading habits, Student A will have read the equivalent of 60 whole school days, while Student B will have read the equivalent of only 12 school days. One would expect the gap of information retained will have widened considerably and so, undoubtedly, will school performance. How do you think Student B will feel about him/herself as a student?
Some questions to ponder:
Which student would you expect to read better?
Which student would you expect to know more?
Which student would you expect to write better?
Which student would you expect to have a better vocabulary?
Which student would you expect to be more successful in school…and in life?
Homework for Life
Find something useful to do for someone else.
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May 1 – 5
Phew! What a week! We packed in a FAST Reading assessment, FAST Math assessment, and a Math Summative. I am SO proud of my class and their work ethic. They came in each day with their “game face” on and their hard work paid off! I will send home results as soon as I get the “ok!” from administration!
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April 17 – 21
Congratulations to Nuala for winning the Poetry Contest in 3rd grade! We are SO proud!
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