Bennett Third Grade Newsletter
March 18th - March 25th, 2016
Great Things Going on in Third Grade
Please see the attached flyer about MISD Frisco Rough Riders Night.
We have a busy, but exciting few weeks ahead of us in third grade. This upcoming week in Math, students will study graphing. Students will learn how to collect and graph data. They will read and create pictographs, bar graphs and dot plot graphs. Students will also learn how to read, create and interpret keys for graphs. Students will use the data in graphs to solve complex word problems. Students should continue to log on to Think Through Math and practice their multiplication facts nightly.
In Reading, we will begin our final Kate DiCamillio novel study over The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Over the next two weeks, we will use the novel to study character development, sequence events, make connections, make predictions, infer, draw conclusions and work on complex vocabulary development. This is one of our favorite Kate DiCamillio books, as well as a student favorite. Please make sure that your child brings their copy of the book each day to class, so that they can follow along as we read, and refer back into the text to help formulate higher level reading responses.
In Writing, students will continue to work on creating a narrative piece over an exciting event in their life. We will also focus on using commas properly in our writing.
Students are so exciting about our upcoming Economics ELM. Students will be working through DIY's this next week as they learn about economics, free enterprise, supply and demand and personal financial literacy.
Binder Needed
Closed Campus March 28th - April 1st
Pictures Needed
Spelling Words for March 25th
SA- jacket, edit, climate, secret, private, unit, pirate, racket, limit, habit, comet, rocket
WW- how, cloud, clown, tough, ground, brown, drown, frown, mouth, through, town, count
LN- which, note, mule, done, wax, these, crab, wife, gum, drip, race, vote
Economics Fair Thursday, April 7th, 2016
Important Upcoming Events
Tuesday, March 22nd: Kidz Science 3 - 4pm
Thursday, March 24th: PTO Board Election Forms Due
Friday, March 25th: Bad Weather Day No School
Monday, March 28th - Friday, April, 1st: Closed Campus 4th & 5th Grade STAAR Testing
Monday, March 28th: Fire and Tornado Drill
Tuesday, March 29th: STAAR Testing 4th Grade Writing, 5th Grade Math, Kidz Science 3:00 - 4:00pm
Wednesday, March 30th: 1st Grade Field Trip, STAAR Testing 4th Grade Writing, 5th Grade Math, 4th & 5th Grade Choir Performs @ Texas Legends
Thursday, March 31st: 5th Grade Growth and Development Video preview at Central Office, STAAR Make Up
Friday, April 1st: White Binders Due
Thursday, April 7th: PTO sponsored Culver's Night 5:00 - 10:00pm, 3rd Grade Economics Fair
Monday, April 18th - Saturday, April 29th: 3rd Grade Star Wars Themed STAAR Review
Wednesday, April 20th: Deadline to order Frisco Rough Riders Tickets for MISD Night
Saturday, April 23rd: Bennett Carnival 3:00 - 7:00pm
Tuesday, May 3rd: PTO sponsored Spring Creek Barbeque Night 5:00 - 9:00pm
Bennett Third Grade
Email: jharry@mckinneyisd.net
Website: bennettthird.weebly.com
Location: 7760 Coronado Drive, McKinney, TX, United States
Phone: 469-302-5400
Twitter: @BennettThirdGrade