Dear third grade families,

It was a pleasure meeting so many grandparents on Friday. The third grade had a lot of fun making family trees and getting to know our special friends a little better.

This week we will continue to work on rounding numbers to the nearest ten, hundred and thousand with a rounding quiz on Tuesday. As the week progresses, we will look at estimates vs. exact numbers, and finally some pattern recognition.

Accelerated Math continues as well. Just as a reminder, each student is required to turn in his or her completed Accelerated Math a minimum of 2 times each week in order to receive full credit on the homework.

We continue to study the story of The Keeping Quilt. This class will look at the narrator’s voice as well as the role of the author’s viewpoint. We will focus on the comprehension skill of making connections, too. Next week we will wrap up the book with our next selection being Tomie Depaola’s 26 Fairmount Avenue. Remember that these books are readily available for order at your local bookstore or Amazon.com (for which Scrip is available).

In Writer’s Workshop, we continue to work on our first genre of expository writing: writing directions.

We will visit the science lab this week in our continued studies of properties of matter and atoms!

In Social Studies we will look a little closer at our local landforms.

Wednesday is picture day. Students are to wear their uniforms for pictures in the morning.

Please remind your child that Thursday is our school library day. Students who plan to check out a new book should bring their library books from last week in order to turn them in.

Finally, don’t forget that Friday is a full day.

Best,

Mrs. Espinosa