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~Third Grade Update~

CLASSROOM NEWS:

WRITING: We have been learning how to generate ideas for personal narrative writing. We chose a small moment idea today and will learn how to plan for our story writing. We will learn writing strategies to make our writing powerful.

GROWTH MINDSET: We continue learning about Growth Mindset. We have been making goals as a class and then each student made a goal for themselves as a reader.

MATH: We continue learning our 5s and 2s multiplication. We have started to learn how multiplication and division are related. We have learned to make drawings that go with multiplication equations and have practiced solving word problems.

READING: We have been working on choosing good-fit books. We talked about forming strong reading habits that help us grow as readers. We will be starting a new read aloud mentor text (The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane) that will help us practice reading strategies.

OTHER INFORMATION TO KNOW:
HOMEWORK:
Please continue with daily reading (20 minutes) and math fact practice. We will be adding the 2s multiplication facts this week.
I sent home 2 MATH HOMEWORK PAGES (1-3/1-5) today. These are due on Friday 9/21. These pages are helpful for practicing facts and strategies so please support your child as necessary.

SCHOLASTIC BOOK ORDER: You will see information coming home about the Scholastic Book Order. Take a look at these with your third grader. If you choose to order, please follow the instructions on the letter that is attached to the packet. Your order helps our class earn free books! Thank you!

LOOKING AHEAD:

PICTURE DAY: school picture day is on September 27.

9/20: PTC Meeting in the library at 6:30pm
9/28: Popcorn Friday
10/5: Walk-A-Thon
10/12: Early Release dismissal at 12:15pm.
10/23: Turkey Trot

Field Trip Pictures

Here are a few pictures from our field trip last week! We had a great time!

A Few Things….

We had a great time celebrating our Milton Hershey day in math today. We practiced area, perimeter, graphing, and mass. These are concepts we will be working on later in the year so it was great to get a head start.

Picture Day is MONDAY!!

Picture day is Monday! A picture ordering envelope was sent home on Thursday. If you wish to order, please send in the envelope on Monday. Thanks!

Snacks: We have a morning snack break every day. Please help your child to remember to put a snack in their backpack at night. It is most helpful when students bring one item for our morning snack time as we do not have much time to be eating all morning so it is usually a quick break for us. Please no candy.

I hope you have a great weekend!

Ms Van Arkel

Picture Day!

Get those outfits picked out and those smiles ready! 🙂

Picture day is MONDAY! (9/17)

If you plan on ordering pictures, please send the envelope with your child on Monday.
Thanks!

Miss Van Arkel

This week….

Here is an update of our week:

In writing we continue to write our research on a specific animal. We have been taking our information we collected and turning it into paragraphs with complete sentences that include interesting words.

In reading we have been working on questioning and wondering, and we have started to explore non-fiction texts. We have book clubs going on in our classroom as well. In the next couple weeks I will be talking about the book talk assignment. Be looking for that information in March.

In science we have been learning all about the 5 vertibrate animal groups. We did a group project in which each group created a poster with 3 key facts about the animal group. We are now learning about animal adaptations and how they get their food.

In math we continue to practice multiplication using number puzzles, arrays, and tables. We will also be learning about comparison problems and using comparison bars.

We will have our sentence dictation test on Thursday for spelling. The words are: toward, usually, four, until, through, thought, head, began, kind, above.