3rd Grade Newsletter
March 7, 2019
Open House Tonight!
Please Join Us For This Come-and-Go Event
Barksdale's Open House is March 7th from 6:00 - 7:00.
Our third grade superheroes have been very busy preparing for the evening.
Come celebrate your child.
IMPORTANT DATES
Reading
- Your child should be reading for at 30 minutes daily. Don't forget to update the 40 Book Challenge card as books are completed.
LA/SS:
- “Shark Tooth Soup” reading assignment due Friday, March 8th
Math:
- Topic 13 Math Test and Homework Due Friday, March 26th
Continue to practice Multiplication Facts- Mad Minute Quiz Tuesday
STAAR Review Homework Due Friday, March 8th
Barksdale Dates:
- Open House - March 7th from 6:00 - 7:00
- Spring Break - March 11th - 15th
- MAP Testing begins the week after Spring Break
STAAR Dates:
- Math STAAR - Monday, May 13th
- Reading STAAR - Tuesday, May 14th
- Important: Please make sure that your child/children will be at school on time all day both of the STAAR dates listed above. Please reschedule any appointments that may conflict with the testing dates. Thank you for your support.
Traditional Literature
Our unit will focus on:
- folktales
- fables
- legends
- myths
- fairy tales
As we explore each type of traditional literature the students will work to analyze, make inferences, and draw conclusions about theme and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding. Students will also paraphrase the themes and supporting details as well as compare and contrast the settings.
Financial Literacy Unit
We are about to begin to work on a financial literacy unit in social studies. Any real world connections you can discuss or model with your child during the unit will help your child grasp the concepts.
During the unit we will spend time covering the following:
- Identify ways of earning, spending, saving, and donating money.
- Create a simple budget that allocates money for spending, saving, and donating.
- Define and identify examples of scarcity.
- Explain the impact of scarcity on the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
- Explain the concept of a free market as it relates to the U.S. free enterprise system.
- Identify examples of how a simple business operates.
- Explain how supply and demand affect the price of a good or service.
- Explain how the cost of production and selling price affect profits.
- Explain how government regulations and taxes impact consumer costs.
- Identify individuals, past and present, including Henry Ford and other entrepreneurs in the community such as Mary Kay Ash, Wallace Amos, Milton Hershey, and Sam Walton, who have started new businesses.