Progress Reports will come home on December 7th
December 16th is a full day of school
December 19th is a half day (Early Release at 11:45)
We will have a Pajama Part on December 19th –
Send your children to school in their (appropriate) pajamas (and shoes).
We will drink hot chocolate as we watch “The Polar Express”
School resumes on Tuesday, January 3rd.
Friday, November 11th is Veteran’s Day —- No School!
Monday, November 14th —- Report Cards go home
November 14th through 18th is Book Fair week
Family Night for Book Fair is Tuesday, November 15th, 5:00 to 7:00
Grandparents’ Day for Book Fair is Wednesday, November 16th
Wednesday, November 23rd is an Early Release Day — Students are dismissed at 11:45
Thursday and Friday November 24th and 25th are Thanksgiving Holidays
Our Fall Festival was a big hit, thanks to all of our very generous parents!!
Thank you so much for sending in contributions and volunteering to help.
We could not have done it without you!
This week, October 9th, we will start a new Reading Unit focussing on Family Traditions. I will be sending home a Family Tree for you to fill out with your child so he/she can learn more about your family heritage. Our first story will be “The Keeping Quilt,” and we will be subtracting larger numbers and across zeros in Math.
Our Fall Festival is on October 21st. Third Grade will be having a Bake Sale and Hot Chocolate booth. Please send in individually wrapped items for our bake sale and hot chocolate mix. All donations and volunteers are gratefully accepted!! Please email me if you have any questions: patricia.dale@carteretk12.org.
Your child brought home his/her school pictures. Please keep what you want and send in the money for what you keep. If you don’t want any of the pictures, please return the entire set. This is a wonderful fund raiser for our school, and we depend upon the money we make in order to provide educational opportunities for your children. Thank you!
This week we will be studying Poetry, ad will also complete our Unit I test. This test is designed to be like the EOG test, and is very hard for new Third Graders. You will see that they did very well on the first two stories, because I read through all of the first two with the whole class. The second two they completed basically on their own and did not do as well. You will have an opportunity to review this test with your child and return it for a better second grade.
The week of September 26th through September 30th is the first of our Review Weeks for Reading and Spelling.
Your child will take a Spelling pre-test on Monday, and homework this week will be ONLY the Spelling words he/she missed on Monday, PLUS all of the vocabulary words for the two stories we are reading. The Spelling test on Friday will be on ALL of the words.
Next week, we will take our first Unit Test for Reading. This test is designed to be very much like the End-of-Grade test your child will take in May. We will do much of this first test together as your children learn to take these very demanding tests.
If you have any questions, please email me at patricia.dale@carteretk12.org.
If you would like to order your books on-line, you can do so at http://clubs.scholastic.com/. Register as a Parent, and use the Class Activation Code HLD8G. Every time you order on-line, our class earns a $3.00 coupon toward more class books!! Of course, you can always order the old-fashioned way. It’s up to you.
Most of the books on the Scholastic order forms have the Lexiles marked (in small print). Take that into consideration when you are ordering books for your child.
If you have any questions, please email me at patricia.dale@carteretk12.org.
Also, if you are visiting my website, please send me a quick email to let me know. I just want to know how many of you I’m reaching this way.
Thank you!!
Thanks to those of you who were able to come to Parent Night.
If you couldn’t make it, I will be sending home a sign up sheet for conferences soon. Please choose three days/times that will work for you and send it back as soon as possible.
Third Grade Parent Meeting
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
6:15 to 7:30 pm
There is so much to tell you about Third Grade, we cannot do it all on Open House night. Please do your best to send at least one parent/guardian (no children, if possible) so that we can answer your questions, and make this transition to Third Grade a little easier.
We will talk about:
Letter Grades
Lexiles
Quantiles
Honorable Hawks
Agendas and ReadingLogs
And much, much more!
You will have the opportunity to:
See your child’s current Lexile and Quantile scores
Ask questions about classroom procedures
Sign up for Volunteering
Sign up for Parent/Teacher Conferences (bring your calendar!)
Please mark your calendar to attend this very important meeting!
