3rd Grade Newsletter
January 10, 2019
Mark your Calendar
Week of January 14th-18th- College and Career Week
January 21st- Student/Teacher Holiday
January 16th- Science Fair Projects due!
January 17th- Multicultural Night (6:00 - 7:30 pm)
Important Reminders
- Send us an email if you have signed your child up for clubs this semester, so we can be sure to update their transportation.
- Return the SIGNED report card sleeve that your child brought home before the winter break.
- Use the following link to access the weekly agenda and make sure your child is completing all homework for the week.
College and Career Week
The following ideas will be discussed:
How will you MAKE YOUR MARK on this world?
Help others? Create something new? Start a business? Solve a problem??
How will you make a difference when you grow up???
Cafeteria Updates
Now that the cafeteria is complete, you may now eat in the cafeteria with your child. Please remember lunch with your child is limited to once per semester.
The cafeteria will begin preparing meals at Barksdale again, and the menu will follow the district lunch menu. See the breakfast and lunch menus below.
Growth Mindset
A couple of years ago the third grade teachers were lucky enough to learn about mindset during a professional development presentation. The presentation was wonderful, and we believe that you may also find the information valuable as you really are your child’s first and most important teacher.
Here are the basic points we learned:
Your mindset is your belief about your most basic qualities and abilities.
-People with fixed mindsets believe intelligence and abilities are fixed and cannot be developed.
-People with growth mindsets believe they can develop their brain, abilities, and talents.
Students with growth mindsets are more likely to achieve success and accomplish goals.
They believe that you can control the outcomes in your life with effort and practice.
As parents and teachers, how we praise and work with children promotes either a fixed or growth mindset.
Things that may inadvertently promote a fixed mindset:
-Excessive praise for intelligence, grades, natural ability or performance.
-Placing a heavy emphasis on grades and test scores instead of emphasis on learning process and skill mastery.
-Saying things like, “I’m a terrible artist, cook, athlete, etc.” or “I’ve never been good at math.”
-Apologizing when lessons are challenging or work requires excessive effort.
Here’s to helping students discover that, “their talents and abilities can be developed through passion, education and persistence.” Carol Dweck