The Word on Third
Third Grade Newsletter - November 17, 2019
Calendar
November 19 - Make up Picture Day
November 22 - PTA Fun Day Inflatables Make-Up during Specials
November 25-29 - Thanksgiving Break
December 5 - Grapevine Parade of Lights
December 6 - Running Club, Colleyville Tree Lighting 6:30 p.m.
December 7 - Colleyville Tree Lighting 7:30 p.m.
December 9-13 - Book Fair, Hour of Code
December 13 - Spelling Bee
December 19 - Polar Express Day - Wear pajamas
December 20 - Class Parties (10:45), Early Dismissal (11:45)
December 21-January 7 - Winter Break, Student holidays
January 8 - Students return to school
January 20 - Martin Luther King Day
January 21 - Hop Doddy Spirit Night for OC Taylor
January 25 - Snow Day with OC Taylor Dads
January 31 - Talent Show, 8:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
The most important things...
- Thank you to all who donated toilet paper rolls for our STEM activity. We now have plenty!
- OC Taylor's Turkey drive is next Tuesday. Dad's Club has set the goal of 200 turkeys for this year. Bring those frozen turkeys to school on Tuesday morning. Dads will be collecting them at drop off.
- Thanksgiving break is soon approaching. We shall be gone the week of November 25-29th. Enjoy this gift of time with your families.
- When we return from break there will be three short weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The Scholastic Book Fair will be in the second week of December. Please note that December 13 will be the Grand Slam with Grand Friends. Grandparents are welcome to come and have breakfast and then visit the book fair with their grandchildren on that day.
Highlights of the Week
- In Reading Workshop we finished our unit on analyzing poetry and started our next unit on Non-fiction reading.
- We wrote poetry to go with our poetry unit.
- In Science we worked on our food chain choice board.
- We continued our unit landforms and habitats in Social Studies.
- In Math we continued multiplication and all completed our Math interim assessment successfully!
- We visited the library and checked out books.
What we are learning next week...
Writing: Starting our expert topic informational books.
Social Studies: Work on celebrations and human impact on the environment.
Math: Continuing multiplication by showing the relationship between multiplication and division; AKA Fact families. Working on automaticity of multiplication facts.
Science: Environments
Here is the Math and Science Newsletter:
Dress Up Days for December have been announced!
We are going to be having some optional holiday fun at OCT. We invite you to participate if you choose. Please see below.
The Veteran's Day Assembly was amazing!
GRACE Donation Time!
Parent corner
Here at OC Taylor we focus on Future Explorations. We know that STEM careers are the fastest growing careers all over the world. Check out the interesting field trip that some Grapevine Middle Schoolers took last Friday. Something to look forward to!
https://www.gcisd.net/news/what_s_new/amazon_welcomes_gcisd_students_on_stem_day
GCISD: Lead 2.0
The Third Grade Team
allyson.dickinson@gcisd.net, @OCTDickinson
morgan.epperson@gcisd.net, @OCTEpperson
lesley.osborne@gcisd.net, @OCTOsborne
melissa.trussell@gcisd.net, @OCTBurt (Mrs. Burt)