3rd Grade Road Trip News
April 1-5
Family Focus!
Turn it in by this Friday and your child can earn "house points" for his/her STAAR houses.
A message from the Reading Teachers!
Every week books are going home with your child that is on their reading level.These are brand new books we just received a few months ago and honestly we are loving them. They have great lessons that go along with them and the stories themselves are GREAT! I actually learned something myself today while reading a story with my group about chocolate.
The books should be going home nightly and coming back every single day. The students know what days their group will be reading with us but there are also days that we have to switch things up due to testing, assemblies, etc. Can you please help us by making sure that they are bringing it back to school every day? It should be in a zip-lock baggie to help protect them since they are paperback.
Also, attached below is the bookmarks that will be coming home with your child starting this week. We have many parents that want to help their children comprehend what they are reading and this will hopefully be a great tool to do just that. They will have the bookmark for their specific reading level. You can ask the question stems on the bookmark to your child and have them answer them either to you or on paper. These can be used for books we don't assign to them as well. Another thing I have been telling the students to do is practice their fluency. Set a timer and read a few pages. Then set the timer again and try to beat their 1st time. BUT the key is not to lose their expressive voice and end up sounding like a robot. :)
We hope that these things will help you in assisting your children to become even better readers than they already are!
~Mrs. Tuttle & Mrs. Aitken
SPELLING
*You can also find their words in their planner written to the side each week.*
Principle: Students will spell homophones (words that sound the same but have a different spelling and different meaning).
Spelling Words: board, bored, roll, role, know, no, break, brake,
High Frequency Words: remember, against, easy, morning, told.
Click on the link below for a menu of activities you can do at home with spelling words. Make sure that they aren’t just memorizing words. They also need to think of other words that have the same pattern or rule. They will be given words on the test they have not seen before but follow the same pattern.
*For each activity done at home that is turned in to your reading teacher, you will get one star on your chart. :)
This week in....
Math: I can determine the area and perimeter of a given shape. I can solve problems for adding and subtracting time using models or tools (15 30 or 45-minute increments). I can determine an appropriate type of measurement for capacity, weight, or length. I can determine measurements for each of those.
Reading: I can identify the topic and locate the stated purpose of author.
I can make inferences about text and back it up with evidence.
English: I can use complete simple and complete compound sentences using the correct subject-verb agreement.
Social Studies: I can describe and explain variations in the physical environment.
Science: I can observe and describe the physical characteristics of environments and how they support plants and animals in an ecosystem. I can also identify and describe the flow of energy in a food chain and predict how changes in a food chain affect the ecosystem such as the removal of frogs from a pond or bees from a field.
Additional Copies of field trip information packet/permission slips included below
Dates to Remember
April 1-19 - Book Drive!!!
April 9/10- 4th and 5th grade only STAAR Test
April 12- Field Trip to Texas Rangers Ballpark
April 19 - No School
April 22 - No School
April 26 - Hawk Assembly (you will be notified if your child is receiving an award)
April 30 - ROE Painting w/ the Hawks at 6:30 pm (more info on ROE Newsletter)
May 13 - 3rd grade Math STAAR Test
May 14 - 3rd grade Reading STAAR Test
May 22 - ROE Field Day (Want to join?!?! Make sure your volunteer information is completed!)
Field Trip Up Ahead!
https://redoakisd.ezcommunicator.net/edu/redoakisd/login_form.aspx?app=0
NEW RESOURCE!!!
Login through their Classlink for easiest access OR through the Red Oak ISD webpage under Student Digital Resources.
Username: lunch#
Password: lunch#
Math @ Home
https://www.redoakisd.org/site/Default.aspx?PageID=2084
Username: lunch#
Password: lunch#
Science @ Home
https://www.redoakisd.org/Page/2084
Login through their Classlink for easiest access OR through the Red Oak ISD webpage under Student Digital Resources.
Username: lunch#
Password: lunch#
REMIND
Don’t forget to sign up for Remind for your child’s homeroom teacher. That is how most of us send the majority of our reminders home so we aren’t wasting paper.
Text the code below to 81010 or download the Remind app and search for the class with the code.
Aitken: @89chd8
Tuttle: @b9551
Inman: @inman1819
Garza: @garza18-19
Wooley: @7hh9c8