Third Grade February Newsletter
Frederick Douglass Elementary
Valentine Exchange - Friday, February 14, 2020
The third grade classes will each be doing a Valentine Exchange on 2/14/20. Your child's teacher will send more specific information and a class list. Please remember that you can't send in candy or food with Valentines. Non-food goodies only please!
Mount Vernon Field Trip - Monday, March 9, 2020
We are excited our third grade field trip to Mount Vernon is on March 9, 2020. You should have already received a permission slip, which is due back by February 21, 2020. The fee for students is $13. Each class can take up to 5 chaperones. The chaperone fee is $18. There is an online payment portal set up on the school's website if you would like to pay with a credit card, otherwise you can pay with cash (exact change please) or check (made out to FDES). If you are requesting to be a chaperone you can hold off paying the chaperone fee until you hear for certain from your child's teacher if you have been selected to be a chaperone. Chaperones need to pay with cash or check, since the payment portal is for student fees only. If you are selected to be a chaperone, you must ride the bus with us. More details about the field trip will be sent home as the date approaches.
Upcoming Dates:
February is African American History Month! Third grade will be learning about Frederick Douglass and other important African Americans throughout the month.
February 3 - 7 - National School Counseling Week - Kindness Challenge
February 13 - PTA Chick Fil-A Spirit Night
February 14 - Valentine Exchange
February17 - Presidents Day - No school
February 21 - PTA Sweetheart Dance - 6-8pm
What Are We Learning?
Language Arts: research clubs, dictionary skills, using context clues, persuasive writing, homophones, and non-fiction reading comprehension
Math: Patterns, fractions, and graphing
Reading Tip - Making Connections
One strategy good readers use is to make connections between a book and their lives (text-to-self connections). This helps a student comprehend what he or she is reading because it relates to them as a person. Another connection good readers make is called a text-to-text connection, in which they connect events in a story to another book they have read. Encourage
your children to relate what they read to life and to other books and they will have a much easier time comprehending what they read!
your children to relate what they read to life and to other books and they will have a much easier time comprehending what they read!
Frederick Douglass Elementary - Third Grade
Email: amy.tucker@lcps.org
Website: www.lcps.org
Location: 520 Principal Drummond Way Southeast, Leesburg, VA, USA
Phone: 571-252-1920