September 5, 2014
Dear Parents,
Here are a few highlights of our week and reminders of things to come.
Reminders:
Reading Logs: Please be sure to sign your child’s reading log each week and read over it with your child, keeping the Writer’s Checklist at the top of the page in mind. Your child should be writing 2-3 well written sentences using correct capitalization, punctuation, and appropriate spelling on this assignment each night. Remind them to circle words that they think are misspelled. We will be adding a copy of the BVSD Third Grade Must Write Words to homework folders. Students should do their best to spell these words correctly on their reading log.
Mrs. Gaddis’s email changed! Her address is toni.gaddis@bvsd.org
She will be spending the day with us on Wednesday, September 10th to familiarize herself with our daily routines and expectations.
Website: Please take some time to visit our classroom website. There are updates about upcoming events and many helpful educational links. mrsgalt.blogspot.com
FIeld Trip:
Our first field trip will be at the end of this month. You will find a permission slip in the Friday folder. Please sign this and return it along with the $5 fee. If you have difficulty with the fee, please contact me as soon as possible. Thank you.
Classroom Highlights:
Literacy:
We are beginning our unit on personal narratives. For the next several weeks students will be writing personal narratives. Students will write true stories about things, people, and important events in their lives. You can help your child by talking about what they might be interested in writing about and asking them to remember details of small moments from their lives so they can write powerful narratives in class. During this unit we will also be working on writing complete sentences and using correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling for the final published piece.
We completed our BVSD Must Write Word List assessment this week. Your child will be coming home with a word list in their Friday folder of spelling words to work on throughout the year at home. The checked words are the words they know at this time. Students will study personal word lists each month in class to learn the words they have not mastered yet. Our goals if for third graders to have learned to spell the words on this list by the end of the year.
Math:
This week we started our unit on Multiplication and Division. We are currently working on 5s and next week will study 2s. Some ideas to talk about regarding this unit- multiplication is equal groups and repeated addition. Math homework will begin coming home next week. There is a parent letter in the Friday folder from the math program with a brief explanation of the homework and ways you can help your child learn their multiplication tables.
Social Studies:
Our current unit in Social Studies is “What Makes Our Community Diverse?” We have been talking a lot about how we are the same and different in our classroom community, our community of Broomfield, and the world community. We will also continue to work on our RIDE values here at school and work on connecting those values to the way we act outside of school as well.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Aisha Galt
