Third grade families,

I enjoyed meeting with you all for parent-teacher conferences last week! Your children have made great progress and that is something to celebrate! Another full week on Zoom…

Important Dates

• No PE this week
• Friday, January 15: 11:45a dismissal
• Friday, January 15: 1:45 school-wide assembly
• Monday, January 18: No School–MLK Jr Day!

Weekly Homework

• IXL math:
  —F.5: Multiply by 4
  —F.6: Multiply by 5
  —J.2: Divide by 2
• fluency
• 100 minutes of reading/4 READO boxes

Sneak Peek to our Academic Week

math: We continue on with unit 4, multiplication and division. This week finish up our unit 4, as well as review for our math test. Our unit 4 math test is scheduled for this Wednesday.

reading: We are almost done with our nonfiction reading unit! This week we will dig deeper into our thinking as we read our biographies, focusing on what lessons the author is trying to teach us through the books we read.

writing: Informational writing! This week we will continue drafting our pieces, using various strategies to develop our informational books, focusing on elaboration. We will use mentor texts to help us learn more about elaboration.

word work: Spelling words can be found in your child’s planner and on spelling city.com. Our spelling tests are scheduled for this Friday.

religion: We will read through chapter 11-God Sent His Son Jesus to Live Among Us

social studies: All about MLK Jr.!

Have a wonderful week!
Miss Poindexter