There's a lot going on this week, including picture day. Our class will have photos taken on Thursday, October 18th at 9:40. If you plan to purchase portraits, please send the picture envelop and payment by October 18th. Also, this week is Coins for Coats Week, (more info below).
This is the last week of the first grading period, (hard to believe). October 22 will be the first day of the second grading period. I will be updating grades throughout the week. Here's a glimpse of our learning for the upcoming week: Reading: More poetry this week! Our focus this week will be on imagery, inferencing, author's message, and main idea. At the end of the week, we will take a district assessment that includes a fiction and poetry passage. We will probably spend a few more days next week reading poetry, but I want to have the test on the first grading period. Writing: We'll continue to write poems while learning poetry elements to improve the quality of our poems including figurative language, imagery, line breaks, and emotion. Later in the week, we'll write a poem inspired by an object in nature. Students can bring in an item from nature to observe and write about. Math: This week, we'll work on twos, fours, and eights facts. The big idea is that we can double twos to figure out fours facts, and we can use double, double, double to determine eights facts. We will also learn how to use halving. Understanding doubling and halving builds flexibility and understanding about numbers which will help build the foundation for future math concepts. It is soooo much more than just memorization. Science: We had so much fun making kazoos last week to explore sound. We'll continue to explore forms of energy as we investigate light, sound, and mechanical energy. Don't forget to send in flashlights on Tuesday. Upcoming Events October 18: Picture Day October 15-19 Coins for Coats Week MONDAY = bring pennies TUESDAY = bring nickels WEDNESDAY = bring dimes THURSDAY = bring quarters FRIDAY = bring dollar bills (or $5, $10, checks made to "RRASC: Keep Round Rock Warm" etc). October 24-26: Book Fair
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Mrs. Swyers3rd Grade Teacher |