Weekly Update

Hello 3rd Grade Families,

I hope everyone had a great weekend! We are looking forward to seeing you back at school tomorrow morning.

Save the following important dates on your calendar please:

Tuesday, August 14th - Zaxby's Night - 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Friday, August 24th - FBI Breakfast - 7:15am

Wednesday, August 29th - Early Release - 12:20pm

Thursday, August 30th - Grandparents' Breakfast for Grades 3-5

Here's a look at our learning this week:

Reading - We will begin our unit on character traits. We will use the book Charlotte's Web to help us understand characters feelings, actions, sayings, and traits.

Writing & language arts: We will work on our first narrative writing and focus on where to get ideas for stories. We will also review what a noun is and the difference between common and proper nouns.

Social studies: We will continue our work with the Three Branches of Government. We have been working in groups to do some research and this week, each group will have the opportunity to create a short video showing what they've learned. Hopefully, these videos will be posted on class dojo later in the week!

Math: We will use what we've already learned about place value to help us with our new concept... ROUNDING! Third graders should be able to estimate numbers by rounding to the nearest 10s or 100s place. 

Homework officially starts this week!

Reading - Your child should be reading a minimum of 20 minutes every night. Please go to biblionasium to log your minutes. After clicking on the link below, select the green section in the middle. Your child can log on with his or her Cobb County student #.  We will be practicing this again in the library later this week, but some may be ready to try now. Please let me know if you have any questions about logging minutes. Biblionasium

Math - Each Monday, your child will bring home math homework for the week. It is to be returned on Friday. There are also optional games on our blog for more practice. http://www.mrskloos.blogspot.com Check out the links on the right side of the page.

Spelling - Spelling words are to be studied as needed. They are written in your child's agenda. We will have a quiz on Friday.

Please remember to send in a note with the date for any transportation changes. 

Thank you! We are looking forward to a great week!