Hi Families,
We had a great last day of third grade!! This was a special group of kids this year and I will miss them!
I feel very blessed to teach your children this year. Thank you all for your support, too! I sent home a packet of Summer Learning ideas to help keep your third grader engaged and learning this summer. Please look for this in your child’s folder.
I hope you have a wonderful summer!
~Ms Van Arkel 🙂
Dear Parents,
Studies have shown that students can lose up to 50% of learning during the summer vacation. Georgetown is challenging you and your child to “KEEP ON LEARNING” this summer to prevent summer slide. There are a few ways your child can continue learning throughout the summer.
2. READING:
• Chapter book reading for 20 minutes (or more!). Help your child maintain their reading progress by keeping a reading routine. With the unusual way our school year ended, maintaining reading skills will be very crucial through the summer and into 4th grade in the fall.
• EPIC : If your child enjoys using this site for reading and they’d like to use this throughout the Summer months, please let me know as I will need to send you a link for access.
• Challenge your child to read fiction and nonfiction texts.
3. Writing:
• Have your child keep a journal and write abut their summer adventures and activities. Remind them to think of a small moment and include details, thoughts, and feelings as they write.
• Write about reading: As your child reads, have them write about the text.
– Describe the main character.
– Describe the setting of the story
– Make a prediction
– How would you feel if you were the main character? Would you do anything differently?
– Why do you think the author wrote this story?
– What is the lesson of this story?
4. Workbooks
• You may find 3rd/4th grade workbooks at bookstores that would have some great skill practice.
Keep On Learning With Reading & Mobymax
Dear Parents,
Studies have shown that students can lose up to 50% of learning during the summer vacation. Georgetown is challenging you and your child to “KEEP ON LEARNING” this summer to prevent summer slide. There are two ways to record your learning time:
Our goals for students over the summer are below. Students who reach or exceed goals will be entered in a drawing for an Amazon Gift Card (1 per grade). This is for their grade next year.
| Reading Minutes | Mobymax |
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If your child is new to the school and you would like login information, email Mrs. Reagan. treagan@hpseagles.net
Have a great summer…and keep on learning with READING and MOBYMAX!
Keep On Learning With Reading & Mobymax
Dear Parents,
Studies have shown that students can lose up to 50% of learning during the summer vacation. Georgetown is challenging you and your child to “KEEP ON LEARNING” this summer to prevent summer slide. There are two ways to record your learning time:
Our goals for students over the summer are below. Students who reach or exceed goals will be entered in a drawing for an Amazon Gift Card (1 per grade). This is for their grade next year.
| Reading Minutes | Mobymax |
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|
If your child is new to the school and you would like login information, email Mrs. Reagan. treagan@hpseagles.net
Have a great summer…and keep on learning with READING and MOBYMAX!
Dear Parents,
Studies have shown that students can lose up to 50% of learning during the summer vacation. Georgetown is challenging you and your child to “KEEP ON LEARNING” this summer to prevent summer slide. There are two ways to record your learning time:
Our goals for students over the summer are below. Students who reach or exceed goals will be entered into a drawing for an Amazon Gift Card (1 per grade). This is for their grade next year.
| Reading Minutes | Mobymax |
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READING: Log into this form to record the number of minutes you read. You can record each day or enter the total for each week.
MOBYMAX via CLEVER: https://clever.com/in/
Login in will be username @hpsstudents.net
If your child is new to the school and you would like login information, email Mrs. Reagan. treagan@hpseagles.net
Have a great summer…and keep on learning with READING and MOBYMAX!
Keep On Learning With Reading & Mobymax
Dear Parents,
Studies have shown that students can lose up to 50% of learning during the summer vacation. Georgetown is challenging you and your child to “KEEP ON LEARNING” this summer to prevent summer slide. There are two ways to record your learning time:
| Reading Minutes | Mobymax |
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|
If you’d like to be part of Georgetown’s challenge to “Keep On Learning” please follow the instructions below. If your child is new to the school and you would like login information, email Mrs. Reagan. treagan@hpseagles.net
Have a great summer…and keep on learning with READING and MOBYMAX!
MOBYMAX DIRECTIONS
Keep On Learning With Reading & Mobymax
Dear Parents,
Studies have shown that students can lose up to 50% of learning during the summer vacation. Georgetown is challenging you and your child to “KEEP ON LEARNING” this summer to prevent summer slide. There are two ways to record your learning time:
Our goals for students over the summer are below. Students who reach or exceed goals will be entered in a drawing for an Amazon Gift Card (1 per grade). This is for their grade next year.
| Reading Minutes | Mobymax |
|
|
If you’d like to be part of Georgetown’s challenge to “Keep On Learning” please follow the instructions below. If your child is new to the school and you would like login information, email Mrs. Reagan. treagan@hpseagles.net
Have a great summer…and keep on learning with READING and MOBYMAX!
MOBYMAX DIRECTIONS
Have you ever heard the phrase ‘summer slide’? It refers to the loss of learning that can take place when skills are not practiced over the summer. We want everyone to keep their learning brains turned on by spending a 10-50 minutes every day practicing math facts and reading. To determine the appropriate minimum number of minutes/day for your child, multiple their grade level by 10. For example, a first grader would spend a minimum of 10 minutes — 5 minutes on math and 5 minutes on reading.
Our school has a login for all students on MOBYMAX – an excellent online tool for all content areas. If your child has forgotten their password/login, email me.
On Mobymax, I recommend the following:
Also, if you would like to track reading minutes over the summer, this counts too. Simply log into this form once a week to tell me how many minutes per week or per month you are reading. Summer learning contest ends on August 20.
All students who participate in summer learning entered into a drawing
for an AMAZON GIFT CARD.
Finally, Mrs. Vandenberg, our librarian, would love to have post photos of you reading over the summer. If you have a photo of your reading during vacation, send her the photo at jvandenb@hpseagles.net
Hope your July is going well!
We had a great day today! Sad to see my third graders go, yet we are excited for summer activities and I look forward to seeing the students grow into 4th graders! I wish you all a wonderful summer!!
A note (red paper) came home yesterday about using Mobymax for online learning this summer. Your child will know how to log on and I really encourage you to help your child be consistently practicing math facts on there as well as the other subject areas.
Independent reading will be important this summer in order to maintain the great growth from this year! I will be at open library this Tuesday (14th) from 10-12. Hope to see you there!! Oh, and the book fair will be here too!!