Third grade families,

It was great seeing so many parents last Friday! You all have such wonderful and talented kiddos and they have awesome parents!!

Happy Catholic Schools Week! Tuesday we celebrate and thank our staff members, Wednesday we appreciate our students, and Thursday we appreciate our Parish members! In honor of student appreciation, there will be NO IXL homework this week! Fluency and reading, only. 🙂

Important dates:

• Tuesday, 1/29: Staff Appreciation Day and a longer lunch for all!
• Wednesday, 1/30: Student Appreciation Day! (free) free dress and a hamburger lunch for all students from Mrs. Benner!
• Friday, 2/1 is a full day.

Homework this week:

• 100 minutes of reading and logged
• fluency
• NO IXL this week!

Sneak peek to our week:

Math: We continue to practice those multiplication facts! As we work to become fluent in them, we will continue to explore arrays and equal groups.

Reading: All about biographies! We continue to research and get our school biographies projects ready!

Writing: This week in writing, we continue with our informational writing, working hard to find the “heart” of our stories and elaborating on our ideas as we go. We continue to use our informational writing checklists to keep track of our progress as writers.

Religion: This week in religion we will discuss how powerful God is and how he uses that power and love to help us! We will continue working on getting The Apostle’s Creed memorized, also focusing on the importance of that prayer.

Spelling: Spelling words can be found in your child’s planner. Spelling tests are scheduled for this Friday.

Science: This week we will be solving a new science mystery pertaining to fossils!

Have a wonderful week!

Miss Poindexter