Thriving in Third Volume 25
February 23, 2023
Meet our 3rd grade student ambassadors!
School Supplies
The students need headphones, pencils, scissors, and crayons/colored pencils in a pencil poutch or box, everyday. Please ask your child if they need any of those items replenished. We have plenty of pencils and glue sticks at school!
Wear RED, Friday Feb. 24
GT Parent Nomination From
Lobo Honors Awards
Looking Ahead
February
- 24th: STEM Night @ 5:30pm
March
- 2nd: Open House & Art Night
- 13th-17th: Spring Break
April
- 4th: Reading MAP Testing
- 5th: Math MAP Testing
- 6th: Language Usage MAP Testing
- 7th: No School - Good Friday
- 17th: Mrs. Franks' Birthday
- 18th: Reading STAAR Test
- 28th: Multicultural Day
May
- 2nd: Math STAAR Test
- 19th: Early Release @ 12:05 & Last Day of 3rd Grade!
March Specials Schedule
Third Grade Curriculum
ELAR
Mentor Text: Edison's Best Invention
Grammar: Revision skills: Adjectives, commas
Foundational Skills: decoding & spelling prefixes (NON- & EN-)
Writing: responding to reading and revise/edit opinion essay
Vocab:
Purpose, opinion, fact, argumentative text, opinion essay, text evidence, claim, prefix
Reading: Identifying the claim, using text evidence
Social Studies
Governing Communities
3.11 (B) identify and describe the heroic deeds of individuals such as Harriet Tubman, Todd Beamer, and other contemporary heroes
I can describe heroic deeds by presenting information about my hero.
Academic Vocabulary:
hero
heroic deed
Math
Unit 10: Fractions
This week in Math:
-Comparing Fractions
3.3H: compare two fractions having the same numerator or denominator in problems by reasoning about their sizes and justifying the conclusions using symbols, words, objects, and pictorial models
Science
Unit 8: Ecosystems
This week in Science:
- Environments/Ecosystems
- Environmental Changes
12.C: describe how natural changes to the environment such as floods and droughts cause some organisms to thrive and others to perish or move to new locations
⭐Star Students⭐
Hannah
Mrs. Franks' Star Student
Macey
Ms. Cho's Star Student
Ava
Ms. Golec's Star Student
Luke
Mrs. Tuffs' Star Student
Jennifer Tuffs- jtuffs@leisd.ws
Brittany Golec- bgolec@leisd.ws
Jennifer Franks- jfranks@leisd.ws
Shua Cho- scho@leisd.ws