Weekly Update

Hello Third Grade Families,

I hope you enjoyed your weekend. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's smiling faces tomorrow morning!

Please save the following dates on your calendar:

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

Thursday, March 14th, STEM Day **Please have your child wear his or her gray and white Addison shirt given out at the beginning of the year**

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:

We will write one more opinion writing piece this week. The students have written several opinion pieces this quarter with help, but now it's time to show what all they've learned by independently writing. We will be looking for a clearly stated opinion with supportive reasons & examples, transition words, an introduction and conclusion, as well as correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

During reading this week, we will be integrating our health standards. The students will be reading and learning about the circulatory and respiratory systems of the human body.

Your child should have brought home a study guide on Early Exploration last week. We studied at school in preparation for our test Monday. After that, we will move on to our science standards about pollution and conservation. We will be going to the science lab for an activity called, "Who Polluted the Hooch?" (as in the Chattahoochee River) We will also learn about the importance of reduce, reuse, and recycle. This Thursday is STEM Day at Addison and the 3rd graders will be creating a portable garden out of recyclable materials! Thank you to those who have sent in materials for this project!

In math, we will continue our work with word problems. Our goal is to be able to solve 2-step word problems with any of the 4 operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division). This is such a hard concept for many students, but we will continue to persevere! We have been working on slowly reading the problem one sentence at a time to really understand what we are being asked to do.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Thank you!

Laura Kloos