Week of September 13th

    

❤ A home-school partnership is key. We will post a blog every Friday, post-work on SeeSaw, send messages through SeeSaw, and email or call when needed. Please reach out to us as well as we are here to ensure a successful year for both your child AND you!

Back-To-School Night

Please plan to attend our 3rd-grade portion of the night from 6:45 - 7:30 PM. Please report to your child's room when you arrive at Clarke. We will be sharing important information about the year including our philosophy, routines, procedures, and curriculum highlights. If you are able to, please come! 

Mrs. Knuth: Room 110

Miss Yoder: Room 111

Mr. Persenaire: Room 113

3rd Grade Necessities...

• bring a snack and water bottle each day. *The office has a limited amount of snacks for emergency purposes.

• make your student's lunch choice for the week

• set aside reading time at least 5 days a week--this is a habit that is easy to ignore but reaps more benefits than you can imagine--start early and don't give in. Students will be completing book reports when they are finished with their independent reading books. Students should complete a book every 1 - 2 weeks based on the length of the book. 

• Check your child's blue take-home folder daily. Look for papers being returned for home, notes from school, homework assignments, etc.

• read the blog each Friday.

Word Study

Next week word's study is introducing how to properly add -ing to words. Please remember that there are spelling words to practice each week. The amount of words varies each week between 3 - 5 words. This week's words will be:

stopping, working, standing, grinning, planning

TOYS

We are having many students bring toys from home. This is causing issues both in the classroom and at recess. Toys are not allowed at school and should remain at home. If your student is going somewhere after school and needs a particular toy, please remind them that it must stay in their backpack for the duration of the school day.

HELP NEEDED

Please be sure that your child has a working pair of headphones at school. 

Headphones are used every day at school

Thank you for helping with this important supply!

💙 Third Grade Schedule 💛

Enter Building: 8:20 a.m.

Tardy Bell: 8:30 a.m.

Recess: & Snack 10:10 - 10:30

Lunch: 11:40 a.m.

Lunch Recess: 12:05

Return to Class: 12: 30

Recess: 2:00

Special: 3:05 - 3:45 p.m.

Dismissal: 3:50 p.m.

💙 IXL Practice 💛

As we complete standards through our math program, we will update you on skills that students can practice at home through IXL

Graphing Skills: 3rd Grade U.5, U.6, U.7, U.8, U.12, U.13

The tardy bell rings at 8:30. We have been lenient about students arriving late, especially with late buses, congestion in the parking lot, and construction in the car. Please do your best to make sure your student arrives at school on time. We will begin marking students who arrive late tardy if they are not on a bus. 

💙Home-School Partnership💛

Our partnership with you is extremely important to us and to a successful year for your child. If you have questions or concerns, please feel comfortable reaching out to us. We will strive to answer all emails or SeeSaw messages as quickly as our schedules allow. Emails that arrive in the evening or over the weekend will be returned the following school day.

💙 What We Learned This Week 💛

💙 Language Arts: We are continuing to work on developing our Daily 5 Rotations., including with the addition of Core 5. This week, we focused on character traits and identifying the moral of the story through reading the tale "Tortoise and the Hare." We also continued to work on choosing good-fit books for Read-to-Self. 

💛Writing: We continue to work on printing letters correctly so that we can move into cursive handwriting later. We also introduced our first writing genre, which is personal narratives. Students wrote about their First Day of 3rd Grade, where they created a Memory Map and a Graphic Organizer to organize their thoughts and ideas. At the end of the week, we worked on creating a rough draft. 

💙 Math: We continue to work on creating a scaled picture graph and bar graph based on data given, as well as answering questions based on the graph. We are doing our "cool downs" in SeeSaw, so families can easily see how their students are understanding and progressing through each lesson. 

💛Social Studies:  We will take our first Social Studies test on Monday for Unit 1 titled "Meet Michigan", which was about the symbols and other important information about Michigan. Students really enjoyed getting to learn about the state that they live in! Each student should have a completed study guide to study from. There is also a copy with the answers on Seesaw. 

💙Science:  We have completed lesson 1 of our first science unit--The Power of Flowers. Students should fully understand how bees help a flower produce seeds. (A flower provides nectar for the bee while the bee provides pollen from another flower in order to produce seeds).