3rd Grade

Sept. 1, 2011

Important Dates

Parent Meeting Thursday, Sept. 1st from 6:30 - 7:00

Student paperwork Due - Sept 6th

Labor Day Holiday - Sept. 5th

Class Schedule8:25 - 9:20 Literacy

9:25 - 10:15 Fine Arts

10:20 -11:45 Literacy

11:50 - 12:20 Lunch

12:20 - 2:00 Math

2:00 - 2:45 Science/Social Studies

2:45 - 3:00 Recess

3:00 - 3:20 Ready to go home

Library - Thursday

Computer Lab - Monday and Wednesday

This Week’s Rebus:

A rebus is a picture representation of a name, work or phrase. Each rebus portrays a common word or phrase. Can you guess it?

Welcome to 3rd Grade!What a great start we’ve had so far. I’m looking forward to learning more about my new students and partnering with you to build your child’s knowledge and experiences.

Science and Social Studies

NotebookingNew for 3rd graders is receiving number grades for their report cards this year. You

will not see many Science and Social Studies papers coming home because we use notebooking as a learning tool. There are 5 Good Reasons for using notebooks:

1)To encourage students to use writing for thinking and become active in their learning. 2) To document students’ thinking and show them that information can be communicated in different ways (graphs, charts, tables). 3) Notebooks offer numberous opportunities to develop communication skills, written, visual and oral.4) Provides a structure and support for all students to achieve. 5) Fosters coordinated efforts and shows them that information can be gathered and organized in more than one way.

These notebooks will not be coming home but you are welcome to come view them at any time.

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This week’s very important

Vocabulary:

Responsibility Scientist Bar GraphOperation Even numbers Odd numbersNumber Sentence (Equation)And (Number Strand)

We have many 3rd grade challenges. As you will soon see 3rd grade is a huge change from the first years of school. Most important for me this year is to develop your child’s reading skills and their love for reading. One of those important components is vocabulary. With your help we can develop your child’s vocabulary together. Each week I will provide just a couple of the new vocabulary words we have been discussing in class. Please talk with your child about these vocabulary words and use them in your conversations together.

SODA TABS

This will be the 3rd year that my class has collected can tabs for the Ronald

McDonald House of Ft Worth.Last year we collected with Mrs. White’s2nd grade class and together gathered

Over 48,000 tabs. So please start saving those tabs.

SCIENTISTSThis week we spent quite a bit of time talking about scientists. What a scientist does, wears, tools they use and where you might find a scientist. PBSKIDS.ORG has some great information about scientists.

HOMEWORK:

Your child has already received their first reading assignment. They are expected to read

20 minutes each night and write about it. With their reading log, I sent home a very interesting

bit of information about our children’s reading development.