Friday, November 1st

Next week we have PE on Monday and Thursday.

QUICK REMINDERS:

Monday, November 11th: No School Veteran’s Day

Dear Parents,

Happy Friday!  It has been quite a week with winter weather late starts and Halloween.  Thank you to all of the parents who contributed to our Halloween Harvest Party! The kids enjoyed delicious snacks, relaxed social time, and playing games.  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 be available through the  Infinite Campus Parent Portal on Thursday, November 14th.

Curriculum Update:

We continued to build fluency with 1s-10s multiplication and division.   We used order of operations (ask your child about PMDAS) to solve multi-step word problems.  I am impressed with their hard work. We will have our Unit 2 math test on Thursday of next week. Then, we will begin our Measurement, Time, and Graphs unit.

Our Plant and Animal Life Cycles unit has come to a close.  It has been fun to learn about the life cycles of mealworms and pea plants in our classroom. Our trip to the zoo and our lessons with Thorne Nature experience have been a great compliment to our unit.   We will begin a social studies unit about local government next week.

Students read an opinion piece called Recycle It! They then wrote their own opinion piece about the importance of recycling using reasons from the text to support their opinion.   Next week, students will be reading and writing about what pet they think is best for apartment living. 

We completed our Patricia Polacco author study and are starting a nonfiction text set next week.

I hope you have a fantastic weekend.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Aisha Galt