The Word on Third
Third Grade Newsletter - November 1, 2019
Calendar
November 8 - National STEAM Day, Running Club
November 11 - Veteran's Day Program
November 15 - Running Club
November 19 - Make up Picture Day
November 25-29 - Thanksgiving Break
December 6 - Running Club
December 9-13 - Book Fair
December 20 - Class Parties (10:45), Early Dismissal (11:45)
December 21-January 7 - Winter Break, Student holidays
The most important things...
- Thank you to all of the parents who came out to watch the Halloween Storybook Parade. It was a lot of fun!
- The information for the November 11 Veteran's Day Program is below. One thing to note is that if you would like to honor a veteran in your family, you can do so through the Wall of Honor. All details are contained in Mrs. Vencill's note. This is one of the best programs of the year. Please bring someone to see the incredible spirit and gratitude of the children on this special day. Link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vFeVfgG789o0CeKXNQzkxYvGUqnzPr5l7ex9MhBfRdk/edit
Highlights of the Week
- In Reading Workshop we continued our mini-unit on analyzing poetry while focusing on figurative language.
- 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 and had an art gallery for them.
- We finished our community maps in Social Studies and wrote letters to convince The Lopez Family to move to our amazing community.
- In Math the students are utilizing the UPS (Uniform Problem Solving strategy) check strategy completely and thoroughly. We are also getting pretty good strip diagrams!
- We marched in a Storybook Parade and had a lot of fun.
- We visited the library and checked out books.
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: Beginning multiplication with strategies to understand how multiplication works by using repeated addition and arrays.
Science: Continue food chains
Here is the Math and Science Newsletter:
GRACE Donation Time!
Parent corner
We love immediate feedback and here are some first hand accounts of the new Gold Card program for the district. This card allows our most valued residents to attend district functions at no cost (playoffs excluded). If you have anyone who would qualify for this, please take it into consideration. It is an amazing program and will pay off big dividends when our third graders are older and involved in more things.
Because of the success with the program and great interest, there are four more meetings planned to inform our neighbors. Please see the link for those upcoming dates.
https://www.gcisd.net/cms/one.aspx?portalId=96313&pageId=24795274
Qualifications:
Must be 65+ years old.
Live in Grapevine Colleyville ISD boundaries.
GCISD: Lead 2.0
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)