Important Reminders

Hello Everyone,

There are several important papers coming home today. Please be sure to check your child's blue Thursday folder for the following:

• pictures from picture day & info on retakes if necessary
• information on the upcoming 3rd grade musical including scripts for those who have parts & costume information for everyone
• information on this Saturday's Addison Garden clean up day

Also,

• Please return the field trip permission form and payment if you have not already done so.
• Scholastic book orders are due next Friday, November 8th by 2:00pm. Visit https://clubs.scholastic.com/ and use our class code P2Y3C to place your order.
• Songs for our 3rd grade musical can be practiced using these links 
  https://youtu.be/hYJr8x7dBVM - Cold Snap
  
  
  
  https://youtu.be/pX0YE43erjE - We're Flakes
  
  
  
  https://youtu.be/uhjjHusLLKQ - SNIRT!
  
  
  
  https://youtu.be/zMSn63UHiyk - Nothing Special
  
  
  
  https://youtu.be/CmJqaKhw6Ts - One in a Million
  

• Online payments will now be available to parents for almost all school payment needs such as Field Trips, T-shirt sales, etc. The payments are made through www.mypaymentsplus.com.  
  
  

Happy Pumpkin Day!

Weekly Update

Hello Third Grade Families,

I can't believe it's almost November! The year is flying by! Please take a minute to save these dates on your calendar:

No School for students	Tues, November 5th
Thanksgiving Feast for K and 5th	Tues, November 19th
Thanksgiving Feast for 3rd and 4th	Wed, November 20th
Thanksgiving Feast for 1st and 2nd	Thurs, November 21st

As you know, this Thursday is Halloween! Students may not wear costumes to school. We will be completing a Fall-themed STEM challenge with Mrs. Westbrook. If you are able, please send in toothpicks and/or bags of candy corn for the activity by Wednesday. Students will bring home their regular math homework sheet on Monday, but they do not have to complete Thursday's row of homework unless they want to. There will be no spelling test on Friday either! Happy Pumpkin Day!!

Here's a look at our learning this week:

In reading, we are continuing to work on identifying the main idea and supporting details of a text. The students are getting so much better with this skill! A big challenge has been to say or write the main idea in a complete sentence. We will keep working on this in class!

In writing, we are working on an informational piece. We gathered lots of research last week and now we will work on putting all of those facts into sentences and paragraphs. Be sure to ask your child what animal he or she is writing about.

Our grammar focus this week will be on past tense verbs. We will specifically focus on irregular verbs. To practice more with verbs check out this game  -  Verbs

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please let me or Mrs. Westbrook know.

Have a GREAT week!

3rd Grade Musical Updates

3rd Grade Musical Updates

1. Information regarding costumes for the musical will be coming home the week ending November 1, 2019.
2. Auditions for rap solos in "SNIRT!" will be held during your child's music class on the following days:
   
   Phillips - Monday, October 28
   
   Westbrook - Tuesday, October 29
   
   Rose - Wednesday, October 30
   
   Mehall - Thursday, October 31
   
   ​Kloos - Friday, November 1
   
   ​Students can practice for these solo parts using the rehearsal PowerPoints found on Dr. Sampson's website, www.aesmusicroom.weebly.com - Classes - 3rd Grade - "Flakes" Rehearsal Powerpoints.
3. All important information regarding the musical will be posted on Dr. Sampson's website as well.

Weekly Update

Hello Everyone,

Please save these dates on your calendars:

Monday, Oct., 21st-Fri., Oct., 25th, Red Ribbon Week

Tues., Oct. 22nd, Wear a hat to school

Wed., Oct. 23rd, Wear Red

Thurs., Oct. 24th, Wear mismatched clothes

Fri., Oct. 25th, Wear Addison T-Shirt

Fri., Oct 25th, 7:00 am, FBI Breakfast

Fri., Oct. 25th, Boovie Night

Here's a look at our learning this week:

In reading, we will work on understanding how to identify the main idea and supporting details of a non-fiction text. We will be working on this skill for a couple weeks. A helpful hint to try when determining the main idea is to ask, "What was every sentence in the paragraph/passage/chapter about?" We will continue to work on answering questions about texts using complete sentences.

We will begin a new writing research project this week. We will be visiting our library/learning commons to learn more about how to gather research. Then we will take that research and use it for an informational writing piece.

We will also begin to learn about verbs this week. At home, you can ask your child to practice identifying verbs (and nouns for review) in books he or she is reading.

This Thursday, we will have an author visit with Diane Shore. You can read more about her here. Order forms went home last Thursday for those interested in pre-purchasing an autographed book.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions or concerns about anything.

Have a great week!

Weekly Update

Hello Everyone,

It's conference week! Please be sure to show up with your child at your scheduled time this week. If you need a reminder of your time, just let me know. Please be sure your child knows how he or she is going home each day.

The book fair is going on this week. You are free to shop with your child before or after your conference time, or you can send in money with your child to spend on his or her own during the day. If you send in money, please put it in an envelope or baggie with your child's name on it. 

This week, there are no spelling words to study! We will be practicing spelling sight words that are often misspelled (because, there, were, where, went, want, now, know, are, our, etc), but there will not be a test on these words.

We will be introducing some new concepts this week as we start the 2nd quarter. Our reading and writing focus for most of the quarter will be on Informational (non-fiction) texts. In reading, we will practice asking and answering questions based on non-fiction texts. Our goal is to refer to the text when answering questions and to make sure we use complete sentences in our answers. This is a tough skill, but I've seen a lot of progress already this year in how students answer questions after reading!

In writing, we will eventually be conducting research and writing an essay based on the facts we find. For this week, we will complete a short informational writing telling facts about a monster that each student will create. This will be a great introduction to this new type of writing. 

As always, if you have any questions or concerns, feel free to email me at laura.kloos@cobbk12.org.