Thriving in Third Volume 27
March 9, 2023
School Supplies
The students need headphones, pencils, scissors, and crayons/colored pencils in a pencil poutch or box, everyday. Please ask your child if they need any of those items replenished. We have plenty of pencils and glue sticks at school!
Looking Ahead
March
- 9th: PTA Meeting @ 5:00
- 9th: Open House & Art Night 5:30-6:30
- 9th: Fraction Math Test
- 13th-17th: Spring Break
April
- 4th: Reading MAP Testing
- 6th: Math MAP Testing
- 7th: No School - Good Friday
- 10th: Science MAP Testing
- 11th: Language Usage MAP Testing
- 14th: Unit 8 Science Test
- 17th: Mrs. Franks' Birthday
- 18th: Reading STAAR Test
- 28th: Multicultural Day
May
- 2nd: Math STAAR Test
- 12th: Unit 9 Science Test
- 19th: Early Release @ 12:05 & Last Day of 3rd Grade!
March Specials Schedule
Third Grade Curriculum
ELAR
Discovering Connections Across Genres
Grammar: Revision skills: punctuation, compound sentences
Foundational Skills: decoding & spelling prefixes (DIS)
Writing: responding to reading and revise/edit opinion essay
Vocab:
Digital text, Evidence, Genre, Graphic feature, Informational text, Key ideas, Literary text, Multimodal text, Organizational patterns, Synthesize, Text/print feature, Voice, Word choice
Reading: Using STAAR question stems with paired passages.
Social Studies
Governing Communities
11(B) identify and describe the heroic deeds of individuals such as Harriet Tubman, Todd Beamer, and other contemporary heroes.
13 A: identify individuals who have discovered scientific breakthroughs or created or invented new technology such as Jonas Salk, Cyrus McCormick, Bill Gates, Louis Pasteur, and others
We will review for the upcoming test (March 30th)!
Math
Unit 9: Geometry
This week in Math:
-Polygons
-2D/3D Shapes
-Quadrilaterals
3.6A: classify and sort two- and three- dimensional figures, including cones, cylinders, spheres, triangular and rectangular prisms, and cubes, based on attributes using formal geometric language
Science
Unit 8: Structures and Functions
This week in Science:
- Animal Adaptations
- Physical Adaptations
- Behavioral Adaptations
3.13: explore and explain how external structures and functions of animals such as the neck of a giraffe or webbed feet on a duck enable them to survive in their environment
⭐Star Students⭐
Kamila
Mrs. Franks' Star Student
Shubham
Ms. Cho's Star Student
Nolan
Ms. Golec's Star Student
Cason
Mrs. Tuffs' Star Student
Jennifer Tuffs- jtuffs@leisd.ws
Brittany Golec- bgolec@leisd.ws
Jennifer Franks- jfranks@leisd.ws
Shua Cho- scho@leisd.ws