3rd Grade News
Ms. Ramsey's Weekly Newsletter Friday, December 9th
Important Announcements
No Clubs on Last Week of School
All students must be picked up during first carpool.
Volunteers Needed for Winter Celebration
Third grade will be participating in Winter Celebration with second grade. Parent volunteers are needed to help facilitate activities for our students. If you are interesting in helping, please email me! Also, please be on the look out for an email including a Sign Up Genius from Mrs. Sanders.
Please Read Grade Comments on FSA Connect
This is where feedback is given for student performance on assignments. Notifications on due dates for missing assignments and tutoring requests are included as well. Remember, students have five (5) school days to submit late work before receiving a zero. Please help in encouraging your child to be accountable for their work!
Traveling for Winter Break
If your family plans on traveling out of town early, please let me know as soon as possible so I can create a plan for your student. I will do my best to minimize their workload; please remember students are still responsible for major assignments (projects, tests, quizzes). Grades are due December 20; incomplete assignments will receive a "missing" or zero until completed.
Elementary Awards Ceremony
This date has been changed! This will now be held on Wednesday, December 21st from 2:40-3:30 in the cafeteria, following our Winter Celebration.
Mark Your Calendar:
December 13
Ch. 3 Social Studies Test
December 16
Science MAP Testing
December 19
Create an Ecosystem take-home project due
December 21
Prek through 3 Winter Celebration (Parent volunteers will be needed!)
Elementary Semester Award Ceremony
December 22- Last Day of Fall Semester
SOCIAL STUDIES: Chapter 3 COMMUNITIES BUILD A NATION
- Lesson 1: America’s 1st People: Native Americans
- Lesson 2: Early Explorers
- Lesson 3: Early Spanish Communities
- Lesson 4: Early French Communities
- Lesson 5: Early English Communities
- Lesson 6: Creating a New Nation
Vocabulary: customs, fort, colony, citizen, territory, expedition, drought, Quaker, pilgrim, tax, protest, independence, revolution, constitution
SCIENCE:
Chapter 4: Living Things
Lesson 1: How can you classify animals? VOCABULARY: marsupial, trait, vertebrate, invertebrate, arthropod, endotherm, ectotherm
Lesson 2: How are offspring like their parents? VOCABULARY: trait inherited trait, acquired trait, learned behavior, instinct, migrate, hibernate, camouflage
Lesson 3: What are the life cycles of some animals? VOCABULARY: larva, pupa, metamorphosis, life span
Chapter 5: Ecosystems How do living things interact?
Lesson 1: What is an ecosystem?
Lesson 2: How do living things get energy?
Lesson 3:How do ecosystems change?
• VOCABULARY: ecosystem, habitat, population, community, producer, consumer, decomposer, food chain, food web, adaptation
READING AND ELA: Unit 3, Week 5
Book of the Week: Around One Cactus
Comprehension Skill: Cause and Effect
Comprehension Strategy:
Vocabulary: Affixes (prefix and suffixes)
Phonics: consonant patterns - wr, kn, gn, st, mb
Spelling Words: thumb, gnaw, written, know, climb, design, wrist, crumb, assign, wrench, knot, wrinkle, lamb, knob, knit, wrestler, bologna, honeycomb, cologne, knickknack
Conventions: Irregular Verbs
Writing: Figurative Langauge
DECEMBER CHARACTER EDUCATION: Fairness and Justice
#FSACARE- Canned Food Drive until December 16
Grade 3: Pudding Cups/ Apple Sauce Cups/Grits and Mashed Potatoes (individual servings
Please send in your donated items, as often as you wish, between now and December 6. Donation drop zones have been set up in the front lobby for lower grades and the cafeteria for upper grades. Service learning club members will be responsible for collecting and recording donations.
We thank each and every one of you in advance for your generous spirit. Thank you for helping us be a part of the solution to childhood hunger.
FSAPS Annual Fund Campaign
We are well on our way towards having 100% family participation and raising $150,000 by December 31. It takes a team effort, but together, anything is possible!
School Wide Family Participation Levels
- 75% participation - Dress down day for students and faculty.
- 85% participation - An ice cream celebration will be made available to all students and faculty. + Dress down day.
- 95% participation - A yummy lunch will be provided for all students and faculty within the school. + Ice cream truck + Dress down day.
- 100% participation - I have agreed to be SLIMED during a schoolwide assembly. :) + Yummy lunch + Ice cream truck + Dress down day.
If you have already donated to our fund, THANK YOU! Your name will be removed from future campaign-related email addresses, and we hope you know how much we appreciate your gift! If you have not yet contributed, and you are able to...please feel free to log onto our website.
https://donate.fultonscienceacademy.org/donatenow
If you prefer to donate using a check, you can mail it to Fulton Science Academy, Office of Advancement, 3035 Fanfare Way, Alpharetta, GA 30009.
Once again, THANK YOU for your continued support. Together, anything is possible!
SYMBALOO EDU RESOURCES
Ms. Ramsey's 3rd grade Resources
http://edu.symbaloo.com/shared/AAAAAwQrGCQAA41_WBN4jg==
Reading/Spelling
http://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/reading-spellingsymbaloo
Elementary Science Resources
http://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/elementaryscience2
Elementary Math
http://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/elementarymath1
Grades 3-5 Resources
http://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/3-5-sites
Another Teacher's symbaloo that is excellent!!
Ms. Chelsea Ramsey
Fulton Science Academy Private School
Serving Advanced and Gifted Students
Email: cramsey@fultonscienceacademy.org
Location: 3035 Fanfare Way, Alpharetta, GA, United States
Phone: 678- 366-2555