Happy Thanksgiving!

Hello Third Grade Families,

Yesterday your child brought home an orange Thanksgiving reading challenge. I'm hoping for 100% participation in this reading challenge during the break. Please keep these papers in a safe place next week and return them by Wednesday, December 4th. Students will earn extra dojo points if they complete the challenge! Several students are borrowing books from my own personal class library collection to take home during the break so they have something to read. Please remind your child to return these books after the break. Happy Reading!

Also, today your child is bringing home a fun Thanksgiving narrative writing that we started in class. Students have the option of finishing this writing piece during the break and returning it on Monday, December 2nd for bonus dojo points. These stories should have a beginning, middle, and end and also include descriptions of feelings, actions, thoughts and even some dialogue! Today, we talked about editing our writing and how it is perfectly normal to make mistakes, but it's not ok to ignore those mistakes once you find them. We had fun jumping up and down and shouting, "I made a mistake!" The students did a great job of finding and correcting their errors. (and it was pretty fun to watch!)

I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving! As always, please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Thank you,

Laura Kloos

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Weekly Update

Hello Third Grade Families,

I hope everyone can join us this Wednesday, November 20 at 11:50 for the Thanksgiving lunch. Also, don't forget, there is NO SCHOOL November 25-29.

Here's a look at our learning this week:

In reading, we will be learning how authors use cause & effect to connect sentences and paragraphs in the text. We will learn that there are certain key words that signal a cause or an effect. As your child reads at home, see if he or she can find these key words and identify some causes & effect in their text. 

In writing, we will be putting the final touches on our non-fiction animal books. The students have all done a great job adding text features to their books. Each student will present their book to the class this week.

We will wrap up our grammar unit on verbs this week by learning about subject/verb agreement.

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

Thank you!

Weekly Update

Hello Third Grade Families,

Please save the following dates on your calendar:

Tues., Nov. 12th, Papa John's Pizza Night

Fri., Nov. 15th, 7:00-7:45 am, FBI Breakfast

Tues., Nov. 19th, Thanksgiving Day Lunch for K and 5th grades

Wed., Nov. 20th, Thanksgiving Day Lunch for 3rd and 4th grades

Thurs., Nov. 21st, Thanksgiving Lunch for 1st and 2nd grades

Thurs., Nov. 21st, Progress Reports go home

Mon., Nov. 25th-Fri., Nov 29th, Thanksgiving Break, No School

We have a busy week ahead of us!

•  On Thursday, Mr. Dodd, from the Cobb County Gem & Mineral Society will bring geodes for every 3rd grader to crack open and take home! This is always an exciting day in the science lab.
•  Thursday will also be another STEM Day for 3rd grade! Our STEM activity will be related to the American Indian regions we have been learning about. Please send in a gallon sized bag of natural materials from your yard or the park such as leaves, pinecones, rocks, small sticks, tree bark, etc)
• Friday is our field trip to the Booth Museum. This field trip also correlates to our American Indian lessons. If you have not returned the permission form, please do so ASAP!

Here's a look at the rest of our learning planned for the week:

In reading, we will continue our work with text features. Students should be able to identify text features, but also understand how text features can help a reader. 

In writing, we are creating a non-fiction book. This week we will focus on adding text features to our writing. 

Our grammar focus will continue to be on forming and using verb tenses.

Also, I wanted to take a moment to say thank you to our veterans. I know we have at least one parent from our class actively serving. Your service and dedication to our country is something I will never forget.

As always, please don't hesitate to reach out if you have questions or concerns.

Laura Kloos

Weekly Update

Hello Everyone,

Please save the following dates on your calendars:

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

Here's a look our learning this week:

In reading, we will begin our new unit on text features. We will be exploring non-fiction texts and learning how text features can help us understand more about what we're reading.

In writing, we will be finishing up our animal writing. Once these are finished, we will typing our writing and turning it into a non-fiction book complete with text features.

We will continue to work with verbs this week during grammar. Our spelling words will focus on irregular past tense verbs. We will also learn about different verb tenses.

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

Thank you!