Week of September 27

 

Conference Schedule

Our conference window opens up on October 14th and ends on November 12th. Below, your child's teacher's schedule is posted. Click the link and sign up for a time to discuss your child's third-grade year. There are a variety of times on different nights and you can choose between an in-person and virtual conference. Please let your child's teacher know if you have any questions. 

Knuth Conference Schedule

Yoder Conference Schedule

Persenaire Conference Schedule

💙 What We Learned This Week 💛

💙Language Arts: This week, we read a story called "Mr. Peabody's Apple's" where students participated in a variety of activities around the story, including cause & effect, character traits, and compare & contrast. 

💛Writing: We continue to work on our writing unit of personal narratives. As students wrote their first couple topics, they reflected on their writing and worked on identifying a couple of goals going forward to improve their writing. For this weeks' topic, students focused on a time when they were scared. They created a Memory Map and a Graphic Organizer to organize their thoughts and ideas. 

💙Math: We focused on equal groupings and developing multiplication expressions and equations, including with unknowns. Students took their checkpoint for multiplication yesterday. 

💛Science:  We have completed lessons 3 and 4 of "The Power of Flowers," which was about why apples are different colors (including taste testing different types of apples) and studying how to create the largest apple in the world. 

💙Social Studies:  After pausing Social Studies for the last couple of weeks, we will be getting back into it, which includes learning more about Michigan!

💙 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

Multiplication Skills: 3rd Grade E.1, E.2, E.3, F.1, F.2, F.3, F.6, F.11, G.1

Word Study

Next week's word study is introducing how to properly add -ing to VC, VCC, VCe, and VVC 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:

thanking, getting, jogging, using, trading

💙 Volunteering💛

If you are interested in volunteering in your child's classroom, including parties, please scan the QR code below. 

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

• 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.