Mrs. Dale's Third Grade Class

December Dates to Remember

Mrs. Dale — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:30:11 +0000

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.

Have a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

November News

Mrs. Dale — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:42:15 +0000

Dates to remember in November:

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

Happy Halloween

Mrs. Dale — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:26:21 +0000

October 31st

is an

Early Release Day

School will be dismissed at 11:45.

Have a safe and happy Halloween!

THANK YOU!

Mrs. Dale — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:03:16 +0000

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!

Family Traditions

Mrs. Dale — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:26:50 +0000

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!

Poetry Unit and Unit Test Week

Mrs. Dale — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:14:48 +0000

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.

Review Week

Mrs. Dale — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:11:50 +0000

REVIEW WEEK

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.

September 21, 2011

Mrs. Dale — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:48:21 +0000

Scholastic Book Orders

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!!

September 18, 2011

Mrs. Dale — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:18:18 +0000

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 Night

Mrs. Dale — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:59:37 +0000

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

Please mark your calendar to attend this very important meeting!