3rd Grade Newsletter
February 8th, 2018
Mark your Calendar
February 8th- Progress Reports go home
Week of February 12th-16th- Friendship and Kindness Week
February 14th- Breakfast with a Buddy & Valentine's Day
February 19th- NO School for Students
Topic 11
In class, we have just begun working on Topic 11. Topic 11 focuses on Understanding Fractions! For further information, please see the Topic 11 email that we just sent home. It has great information to help your child with his/her homework, as well as some visuals we will be using in class. The Topic 11 Test will be on February 28th, and the Topic 11 Homework will be due that day as well.
Math STAAR Homework
STAAR Homework Beginning Next Week: Beginning Friday, February 16th, your child will be bringing home an additional homework packet each Friday. These STAAR Practice Packets will be given out on Friday and be due the following Friday. Please help us by monitoring your child's completion of all problems using CUBES strategies and showing their thinking/work. These STAAR Practice Packets will be included in your child's homework grade. The due dates will be noted on the front of each STAAR Practice Packet.
Science Happenings
We are needing a few donations of science supplies for our upcoming unit, if you have any of the following and do not mind sending them in, we would appreciate it!
- All sizes of empty plastic bottles
- Clear plastic straws
- Colored plastic straws
- Modeling clay
- Dixie (tiny) paper cups
- Empty pudding/yogurt containers (small size)
- Stick pins (kind used for sewing)
- Clear plastic drinking cups
- Balloons (not inflated)
Thank you!
Get ready to celebrate Friendship and Kindness Week!
Friendship Party/Valentine's Day Cards
Dear Third Grade Parents,
The “Friendship Party” is still a couple of weeks away, but we wanted to give you plenty of time to be prepared.
Please work with your child to decorate a shoebox or large tissue box. It can be decorated with just about anything. Ideas include construction paper, wrapping paper, grocery sacks, or even foil. Then, your child can decorate the box with markers, photographs, stickers, magazine pictures, etc. Please leave the box open or cut a large opening on the top. The children will use the boxes as a mailbox for the cards.
Please send these decorated boxes to school with your child on Wednesday, February 14th. (Please don’t send the box in early because we don’t have a lot of space to store the boxes.) The boxes will be used to collect the Valentine’s Day cards. Your child will bring the boxes along with their cards home that afternoon.
If your child is interested in exchanging cards, please send in enough cards for every student in your child’s homeroom class. In third grade we ask your child to sign his/her name to each card, but we would prefer that you leave the “To” part blank. We find it much easier and faster to pass out the cards that way. Please also send the cards to school on Wednesday,February 14th.
Student count per teacher:
Ledsome – 20
Hoffmann – 19
Rosen – 19
Hansen – 20
Kemendo - 19
Russell - 19
Additionally, the third grade teachers will host a Friendship Party during school on the same day. During the party, the kids will open Valentine’s cards and play a few games.
Thanks for all of your help with making this a special holiday celebration for the boys and girls.
Sincerely,
The Third Grade Team