Dates to Remember:September 22nd: Teacher Institute No School

September 27th: Fall Pictures

September 28th: Breakfast and Reading with Mom 8:00-9:00

Reminders:

• Class Dojo will be used to communicate class announcements, homework, student behavior, and can be very helpful in contacting your child’s teacher regarding any questions you have. (Please sign up, if you haven’t already)

• Every Wednesday is 2:30 dismissal

Basic Facts

Students will be practicing 0-12‘s multiplication/division facts in class this year! Students will be introduced to one fact per week. Even though students practice at school, continued practice at home will help build this foundational skill that is necessary to support multi-step math problems.

3RD GRADE GAZETTESeptember 19, 2017 ISSUE NO.2

MRS. GRUEN NKISER@SPS186.ORG MRS. MAHAN EMAHAN@SPS186.ORG

Homework

Specials Schedules

* Mrs. Gruen: Monday- Art. Tues- Music, Wednesday- PE, Thursday- Library, Friday- PE & Music

* Mrs. Mahan: Monday- PE, Tuesday- Music, Wednesday- Art, Thursday- Library, Friday- Music & PE

Dear Parents,

As your student grows, the rigors of school increase. Please know that the jump between the primary grades (K-2) and intermediate grades (3-5) is a very large one. While some homework was assigned in earlier grades, 3-5 students will be required to complete homework on a regular basis to practice skills learned in class, encourage responsibility, and begin to prepare them for the expectations they will encounter in middle school. Frequency of 3rd grade homework assignments is explained in the very last section of the newsletter.

We have had a lot of students not completing homework routinely and ask for your assistance.

Please help your child be successful by going over their homework together and signing planners daily.

Word Work

We will have a 3 week rotation for Word Work- a slight change from the previous newsletter.

We will have a week of:

• spelling

• cursive and structural analysis

• grammar

What we are working on-

Homework will be written down in planner during class, each day. Students are expected to write down their work, complete homework assignments on time, have a family member review their work, and have their planner signed. Homework will be given as follows: Spelling (list sent home e/o Monday) should be studied daily for the Friday test, Math most days there will be review of the daily lesson (1-5 problems), and Reading will not be assigned daily, but is highly encouraged that you read with your child nightly for 30 minutes to support their continued growth. (Please record all reading in their reading log). *Additional work may be assigned on occasion, as needed.

ScholasticOrders:OrderingBooks 3rd Grade books will only be purchased through the Scholastic website. You may purchase at anytime and it will send an email to your child’s teacher. The books will still be shipped to school.

LITERACY I can use mind work while reading to make higher level predictions and complete comprehension checks.

MATH I can use patterns to solve multiplication facts: 0, 1, 2, 5, and 9. I can apply properties to solve multiplication facts: 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8.

WRITING I can write a personal narrative (true story) about one small moment in time.

WORD WORKSPELLING LIST

Short “e” and “o” sounds

CURSIVE-Rockin Round- Letter “d” and “g”

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS-Suffixes

-ed

-ing

GRAMMAR-Complete Sentences, Vocabulary, Editing (Capitalization, Spelling, and Punctuation) Plural Nouns, and Synonyms

Third Grade Homework

crop

test

clock

spent

drop

left

sled

plot

spend

west

block

tent

desk

flock

nest