3rd Grade Newsletter
February 7, 2019
Mark Your Calendar!
February 7th: Progress Reports go home
February 14th: Breakfast with a Buddy @ 6:45 am
February 14th: Friendship Parties in Homeroom
February 18th: Study Holiday/Teacher Professional Development
March 1st: Favorite Book Character Dress-Up Day
March 1st: Six Flags Reading Logs Due (Optional)
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 Thursday, 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
Rosen – 19
Hansen – 21
Kemendo - 20
Russell/Crouch - 21
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
Kindness Challenge!
We are also continuing our School Kindness Challenge! We love to see all of the intentional acts of kindness.
Character Dress-Up Day on March 1st
In honor of the contributions Dr. Seuss made to children’s literature, we remember him annually during Read Across America Week and on his birthday, March 2nd.
This year we would like to invite the boys and girls to come to school dressed as their favorite book character on Friday, March 1st!
Don’t forget to send your child to school with shoes for PE/fitness, and be sure consider the dress code when planning your child’s costume.
We look forward to seeing the kiddos dressed as their favorite character!
Happy reading and costume planning!
Six Flags Reading Logs Due March 1st
Don’t forget that students can earn a free ticket to Six Flags by turning in their Six Flags Reading Log by the March 1st deadline. Students who have logged 6 hours (360 minutes) of reading time will receive their ticket in May.
Please contact Mrs. Edwards at paige.edwards@pisd.edu with any questions.