Inter's Third Grade Newsletter!
November 9th, 2015-November 13th, 2015
Announcements!
*Loving Arms!
Thank you so much for all of your support for the Loving Arms school supply drive! We were able to collect enough supplies to make 52 complete packages for the children!
We also collected A TON of extra supplies to give to the school, which will be very useful for both the students and the teachers! WOW!
Be proud of yourself, your children, and the school for contributing to such a wonderful cause!
* Thank you again to the Moms who helped organize the kite project! Photos will appear on the ¨parent portal¨in the photo gallery and in the CIG Newsletter. Make sure you take a look!
*This week for Science students need to bring in a 25 cent quetzal. This coin will be used for an investigation this week.
*Family Day
We are happy and proud to announce our biggest community celebration of the year - our Family Day. We really hope to see all of you at the event, in order to spend time together and have fun. There are many reasons for you to come to Family Day, but I would like to point out two specific student activities that I would like to invite you to.
1. Artistic Activity "My school" for our 40th Interamericano Anniversary
All Inter students that come to Family Day will have the opportunity to decorate/paint a piece of fabric with the topic "My School", and sign it. The different decorated pieces will be part of a collage that we will produce at Family Day, and that will be exhibited throughout the entire school year. Every section meets at a specific time in the track of the soccer field to complete the activity with their teacher. The section that manages to get the most amount of students participating, will win a pizza party, sponsored by OPAI!
The time our section will meet during Family Day on the long side of the track is:
Grade 3 : 2 - 3 pm
2. All Inter Choir Presentation
All Elementary students will participate in an All-Inter Choir presentation, presenting "Orgulloso de ser Chapin" and a Christmas song they will sing together with Middle and High School students. It´s the first time we are forming and "All Inter Choir", and we would like to see as many Elementary students as possible.The All Inter Choir presentation will take place on the soccer field (Cement stairs). All students have to gather at 5:15 pm, the presentation will start at 5:30 pm. We hope to see all of you and your children at Family Day! You will be receiving more information about the events, the food and the games during the next days, but we wanted to invite you specifically for our student activities on that day.
INFORMATION ABOUT ALL INTER CHOIR REHEARSAL TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10
Time for rehearsal: 9.15 am
Place: Cement stairs
Student concerned: ALL ELEMENTARY STUDENTS, ALL GRADE 6, 125 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
This week in Singapore Math!
This week in Literacy!
This week we start Theme 7-On Moving Ground. The Comprehension Strategy for this week is Fix-Up Strategies. Fix-Up Strategies help students understand difficult words in order for students to better understand the text. Some examples of fix-up strategies include;
- Use illustrations,
- Read- on,
- Break into parts,
- Use context clues,
- Ask what makes sense,
- Skip over and come back,
- Replace with other words,
- Sound it out.
Students will also learn about QAR (Question-Answer-Relationship), a fix-up strategy used to better understand the text and questions about the text. Vocabulary for this week includes anticipate, realize, favorite, surface, and volcano. Grammar includes synonyms and antonyms, words that have similar and different meanings. For writing, students will start writing opinion pieces!