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