Students’ Highlights 11/6 – 11/10
- A four day week!
- Bake Sale!
- Art- still life drawings
- Music- ukulele and piano playing, holiday music practicing
- Math- place value on a 1000 chart
- Science-
- Language Arts- Reading Two Old Potatoes and me and sequencing events
- Second Steps- learning how to make friends
- Spanish- reflecting on Dia de los Muertos
- PE-Playing dodgeball with the middle schoolers
Miss Vizzini shared some scenes from the art room this week during still life drawing:
THANK YOU third grade room parent, Alyssa Faller, who was our organizational lead for our bake sale, and to all the families that brought and bought baked goods at Friday’s event. Third Grade earned a $ for the Community Food Bank! Even better, this amount will be matched by TEP! The excitement and energy that the children brought to the bake sale was fantastic. They helped set up, upsold, transacted sales, and made change like bake shop pros! And, we were excited to count the money after all the selling we did!
THURSDAY, November 16th is third grade’s field trip to the Community Food Bank. Students will present an OVERSIZED check representing our bake sale earnings! Then, they tour the facility and learn how the CFB uses cash donations to help those who experience food insecurity. As a reminder, field trips require students to wear official school uniform: khaki bottoms and red shirt. Drivers are still needed. Please, help if you are willing and able.
Trimester report cards came home on Friday and are also available on Blackbaud. Please, carefully review your child’s report card with him or her and guide your child to set a goal for the second trimester. A few ideas may include adding a study skill to a subject area, reviewing homework time management skills, or encouraging your child to communicate with me regarding ideas for academic growth. Parents, grandparents, and teachers are all on the student’s team and can provide the necessary scaffolding for each child to experience a great school year of academic, emotional, and spiritual growth. Life is a joy and so should be learning! As a reminder, keep the report and sign and return the envelope to school.
Language Arts continues to answer the big question “What’s so amazing about plants?” The main reading selection this week is a collection of Haiku poems about amazing plants that provide amazing foods. Students will use reading comprehension skills to evaluate and explain sensory details. During grammar lessons students study count nouns. Writing realistic fiction sequence chains this week is the next step in developing a story plan before students write a rough draft.
This week Math explored place value and the decomposing of numbers. Next week other contexts within the unit help students examine the place-value composition of numbers. Students will learn about the structure of 1,000 through the construction of 1,000 charts, using groups of 100. They use these charts to locate and order numbers in the hundreds up to 1,000. Then, they will learn what happens when a multiple of 10 or 100 is added to or subtracted from a number as they play Capture 5 and Capture on the 300 Chart. This includes rounding numbers to the nearest 10 or 100 as a way to gauge the reasonableness of their solutions and accurately adding and subtracting multiples of 10 and 100.
Reminders
- November 16th: Field Trip to Community Food Bank
- November 21st: Grand Friends Day
- December 15th: Field Trip to Tucson Presidio 8:30-1:30 PM
- December 15th: Lower School Holiday Program at 2:00 PM
Spelling Lesson 13 Words: Homophones
- so
- sew
- not
- knot
- wood
- would
- write
- right
- piece
- peace