Room E222 News
January 20-24th 2020
We had so much fun celebrating Baby Seaberry on Friday during DPS Hour! Thank you to everyone for your generosity for the gift!! Students got to vote which day they think he will arrive!!
Change with Homework Starting Semester 2 (1/27)
Originally students were completing one page per day in class as a warm-up, but in order to maximize our ELA time in class I have taken it out of our morning routine. Again, this is another resource available to you and would be great practice for homework.
Thank you!
LEAP Program Coming to DPS
Did you see that DPS is partnering with San Marcos Promise's LEAP program so teachers can offer after school enrichment classes this Spring?
There are 8 classes being taught by your very own Double Peak teachers on Thursdays Feb 6- March 19th.
A HUGE benefit is that a percentage of the class enrollment don't go to a 3rd party, they go straight back to our site funds and The San Marcos Promise, benefitting so many more students and programs! Not to mention...they are FUN classes! Our art teacher Mrs. Bullard will be running an awesome Glow in the Dark art camp.
Registration is now open
Upcoming Events and Schedule
1/20-No School! MLK. Jr. Day
1/24- End of Semester 1
2/5- 3rd Grade Living Innovator Museum 8:30-9:00am Click here to view Invitation
2/7- School Spirit Day-NEON DAY!
2/7- Violin Performance in the PAC @ 10:10am
2/13-Semester 1 Report Cards Sent Home
2/14 & 2/17- No School-Presidents Weekend
2/27- Father/Daughter Dance
Weekly Schedule:
Monday 1/20: No school!
Tuesday 1/21: Music (10:00-10:40)
Wednesday 1/22: Make up PE (9:50-10:40) & Art (11:05-11:55)
Early Dismissal-1:40pm
Thursday 1/23: Library (9:15-9:45) & PE (9:50-10:40)
Friday 1/24: Music (10:00-10:40)
WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE CLASSROOM??
- Homework: Students have their final bingo sheet to complete this week! Students should complete at least 6 of the boxes (BINGO) and the math problem on the back! All homework is due Friday January 24th.
- Innovation: Innovation Block 2 continued! We will finish our second week in the innovation lab where students will focus on coding and robotics through different exploration centers. The centers students will be interacting with include scratch jr, bitsbox, tynker, dash, sphero and ozobots.
- ELA/Language Arts - Unit 5: Advancements in Technology. Our essential question is: What is the Value of Innovation? This week we will read a text about the American inventor Thomas Edison and all of his great inventions. The reading strategies we will focus on include identifying key details and determining the main idea, analyzing the author's purpose in a text, cause and effect and using graphic features to aid in comprehension.
- Math - Unit 4-Fractions! This week students will explore what a fraction is and how to identify each equal part of a whole. Students will also work on representing fractions in different ways. Throughout the unit, the big concepts include finding equivalent fractions, comparing fractions, identifying fractions on a number line and representing a fraction when it is more than one whole.
- Writing - Students will continue researching for the innovator project and they will begin their speech outline. Additionally, students will be working on their narrative story told from Alexander Graham Bell's POV.
- Spelling- The spelling pattern for this week is words with the vowel-r syllable pattern. Words with this pattern have a softer vowel sound and are known as r-controlled. The words we will focus on and that are found in our readings for the week are: clerk, coworkers, performed, simpler, mother, smaller, various, over.
- Vocabulary- Students will be able to use reference materials and context clues in a text to build their vocabulary. They will show their understanding of the words by using them in a sentence during collaborative conversations and in their writing. Our vocab words for the unit include: amplified, commonplace, device, distant, established, innovative, obtain, revolutionary, soared and technology.
- 7 Habits - Habit of the Month: Habit 3-Put First Things First.
Ways to Support Your Child at Home!
- 3rd Grade Resources: At Home Practice Website-click here for the link
- Students can work on pages in the spiral review binder sent home!
- Read, Read. Read!!! And talk with your child about what they have read!
- Practice Multiplication Facts!
- Ideas for games:
- Multiplication War-flip over two cards and whoever can multiply the two numbers the fastest keeps the cards.
- Roll two dice and multiply the numbers together. Add up all of your products and the first person to 200 wins!
If you have any box tops at home please send them in! We collect box tops all year long!
How to Purchase Books through Scholastic!!
Ordering from Scholastic Book Clubs is an easy way to find the best books that are just right for your child’s grade and interests.
Here’s how:
Choose books with your child from the paper flyers or online at: scholastic.com/bookclubs
To order online, connect to our class using our Class Code Q8JP6
I submit orders on the last day of each month-Next Order will be placed after school on January 31st.
As soon as your order is delivered to our classroom, I will send it home with your child.
Plus every order you place earns FREE Books for our class to share.
Thank you for your support and happy reading,