Mrs. Chong's 3rd Grade Weekly News
9/25-9/29
Don't forget to sign your student's weekly reflection in their calendar and charge computers for the week!
Picture Day is this Tuesday, 9/26.
PARENT TEACHER GOAL SETTING CONFERENCES
Our Class Garden Week is Coming October 2-6th
Thank you to those who have signed up to help during our Garden Week. We still have a few spots left. Sign up below if you are able to volunteer.
Our Garden Docent, Devon Steinberg, is looking for help with the garden program to run as smoothly as possible. It is ideal to have 4 parent volunteers each day in the garden. If you would like to volunteer one or more of these days, please sign-up using this link.
Scholastic Book Fair is Coming
Our class will be visiting the Book Fair this Friday, 9/29, during our class time. Students can shop this day or go any other day before school to purchase books.
Here's What We Are Learning This Week
Unit 2 Week 1: Ways Characters Shape Stories
Essential Question: How do our actions influence our lives?
READING COMPREHENSION
This week, we will be reading stories called “Two Fables from Aesop” and “Two Famous Poems.” We will be applying various reading comprehension skills such as analyzing characters and their actions, analyzing illustrations, and comparing story plots.
SPELLING Focus
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Examples: freedom, honey, hungry, pieces, even, queens, screamed, leave
VOCABULARY: noble, anonymous, attitudes
WRITING: We will be learning about different genres and really focusing on fables and all the parts of a fable. A fable is a story that features animals, plants or forces of nature which are anthropomorphised (given human qualities). A fable always ends with a moral.
MATH
We will be working on subtraction with 3 digit numbers. We will go over several different strategies to solve subtraction problems.
Art
We will have our first art lesson on Thursday with our Art Docent, Jenn Weiss (Dylan's mom).
PE WITH COACH MILLER
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Upcoming Events
- September 26- Fall Picture Day
- September 29: Flag Salute and Awards @ 8:50 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
- October 5- Make-Up Picture Day
- October 9- Non-student day for Teacher Conferences/Goal Setting
- October 10-13- Minimum Days for Teacher Conferences/Goal Setting
- October 10-13- Families at PE! Coach Miller and the PE team invite parents to join their child's class during PE! (see PE newsletter above for more details)