November 4th, 2016

Dear Parents,

Today is the last day of our first trimester. It’s hard to believe your children are ⅓ of the way through their 3rd grade year! Report cards for first trimester will go home on Friday, November 18.

Literacy:

We have been busy revising and editing our adapted fairy tales.  We will start publishing on Monday!

Math:

This week we finished up Unit 2 (Multiplication and Division 0-10) in math. All assessments will be in Friday folders today. Overall, the class did a great job on this assessment. It always amazes me how much they have learned over such a short period of time. Keep working on all of the multiplication and division facts at home.

Our next unit will begin on Monday. Unit 3 is Measurement, TIme and Graphing. This unit is a bit shorter and will be completed shortly after Thanksgiving break.

Science:

We also completed our unit in science, Life Cycles. The kids had a great time learning about all sorts of life cycles, watching life cycles in the classroom (frog, ladybugs and pea plants) and having Thorne Nature work with us. We have one more session with Thorne, next Wednesday. This has been an awesome addition to our unit. Life Cycles assessments will be coming home soon.

The Kohl Spelling Bee is scheduled for Tuesday, December 6th.  You will find a list of Third Grade spelling words in your child’s Friday folder.  This is completely optional, if your child would like to be in the spelling bee they can study this list. I will give the students a quick test of 15 random words from the list to qualify them for the spelling bee. Our top two spellers will have the opportunity to be in the Spelling Bee.

Mark you calendars:

November 11- NO SCHOOL- VETERAN’S DAY

November 21-25- NO SCHOOL- THANKSGIVING BREAK

Have a wonderful weekend and don’t forget to turn back your clocks 1 hour on Saturday night.


Sincerely,
Aisha Galt