Weekly Update

Hello Third Grade Families,

I hope you all enjoyed your weekend! This crazy Georgia weather has certainly kept me on my toes. Please be sure your child has a heavy coat for the next couple days as it looks like we'll be back to winter temps.

Parents: We are still in need of some recyclable materials for an upcoming STEM project. Please send in any cardboard, plastic bottles, milk containers, toilet paper or paper towel rolls, egg cartons, or anything else you would normally put in the recycle bin. Thank you for your help with this!

Please save the following dates on your calendar:

Tuesday, March 5th, 5:00-8:00 pm, Papa John's Night

Wednesday, March 6th, Walk to School Wednesday

Friday, March 8th, 6-8 PM, 4th and 5th grade Dance

Tuesday, March 12th, 5-8 pm, Zaxby's Night

Wednesday, March 13th, 12:30 pm, Early Dismissal

Thursday, March 14th, STEM Day

Thursday, March 14th, 6:00 pm, International Night

Wednesday, March 20th, Kindergarten Registration

Thursday, March 21st, Report Cards sent home

Monday, March 25th -Friday, March 29th (at noon) Book Fair

Wednesday, March 27th, 5-8 pm, Bruster's Night

Thursday, March 28th, 6:00 pm, PTA/Foundation meeting and 3rd grade Performance

Friday, March 29th, 7-7:45 am, FBI Breakfast

Here's a look at our learning this week:

In writing, we will continue our work with opinion writing. We will be writing about our favorite restaurant. We will work on developing convincing reasons with supportive details. We are also working on using transition words to help the flow of our writing. 

In reading, we will work on comprehending cause and effect situations in texts. Some key words to understanding cause and effect are:

In social studies, we will wrap up our unit on explorers with a visit to the Learning Commons. We will code ozobot robots to retrace the routes of early explorers! Ask your child about this activity later in the week!

In math, we will work on word problems. Our goal is to be able to solve 2-step word problems with any operation (addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division). We will review 1-step word problems first and then ease into the more challenging 2-step problems. 

Have a GREAT week!