The Word on Third
Third Grade Newsletter - November 10, 2019
Calendar
November 11 - Veteran's Day Program
November 12 - Math Interim Test, OC Taylor Concert at UMC at 7:00 p.m.
November 14 - Hey Dude, Nice Shoes Program at 6:30 p.m.
November 15 - Running Club, Big Kahuna Product Pick Up, Bullying Presentation
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...
- Students are to bring fully charged devices to school on November 12, 2019. We shall be taking the Mathematics Interim Assessment as dictated by the district on that day. The test is completely web-based, so devices will need to be completely charged that morning. Thank you with your help with this.
- Thank you to anyone who came to support OC Taylor at Chipotle on Tuesday night.
- The children did very well on the ELA Interim assessment!
The Veteran's Day Assembly is finally here!
The Veteran's Day Assembly is finally here! The children will be performing bright and early on Monday. Mrs. Vencill has asked if the children could wear red, white, and/or blue pants/shorts with a pocket for their flag. It should also be something cool so that they don't overheat on stage. The show begins promptly at 8:30 on Monday morning.
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Highlights of the Week
- In Reading Workshop we continued our mini-unit on analyzing poetry while focusing on figurative language and took our interim assessment for Reading.
- We continued our personal narratives for Writing and worked on our final copies and/or we wrote poems to go with our poetry unit.
- In Science we continued food chains.
- We finished our unit on maps and started our unit for landforms and habitats in Social Studies.
- In Math we started multiplication! We introduced strategies with repeated addition.
- We visited with Mrs. Whisman for a counseling lesson.
What we are learning next week...
Writing: Finish final drafts and continue to write poetry.
Social Studies: Work on our Hyperdoc and/or projects associated with landforms and renewable energy.
Math: Continuing multiplication with strategies to understand how multiplication works by using repeated addition and arrays.
Science: Food chains
Here is the Math and Science Newsletter:
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Parent corner
The feel good story of the week comes from Heritage Middle School and Cross Timbers Middle School. These two schools exemplified the teamwork that we all work towards each day in our classrooms. It also shows how each and every student is important to us. Please check out the story that was picked up by WFAA from the Twitter feed of the district. It is pretty incredible. (Hint: Grab a tissue.)
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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)