Dear Parents,
I would like to begin this week
with a big thank you to the parents who accompanied us today to the National
Building Museum. From the hum of
excited voices as we left, through the morning of instruction and building
everyone seemed to enjoy the day.
The city we built was both fun and functional. Who knows, maybe the next generation of city planners will
include one of our students.
As you know, Parent Teacher
Conferences will be held next week.
This is an opportunity for you and me to share how we see your child
adjusting to the expectations of Third Grade. I will also share information about beginning of the year
assessments. I enjoy this
opportunity to discuss your child with you. If you have not done so as of yet, I would like to ask that
you confirm your conference time through email. The conference schedule is on my blog under the October 3rd
entry. When you open the Google
Doc the first page of the spreadsheet contains conferences through Wednesday of
next week. There is a second sheet
that can be accessed by clicking on the tab at the bottom of the page.
As you may know from your
child’s assignment notebook, we wrapped up our first unit in Math on
Thursday. We are in the middle of
our Maps and Globes unit in Social Studies, and I would expect to test this out
in the next two weeks. I also plan
to introduce the Scientific Method in Science next week. In Language Arts we have been working
on Visualization and sentence structure.
In addition, we have been working in our word study groups. All in all we are getting into full
swing.
I would again like to remind
everyone to take a few minutes each evening to go over the assignments your
child has for the evening. They should
be able to complete these assignments with little assistance from you, but a
bit of help from you to go over the pacing of the work will help. I will say for the most part
assignments are coming back on time and well done.
The
leaves are beginning to change outside out window and the temperature is
fluctuating with early signs of change.
This signals me to take a moment out to remind everyone that the
children do need to be dressed appropriately for the weather each day. The children do go outside each day for
recess and we want them to be warm enough to enjoy their time on the
playground.
Below you will find a list of
some of the upcoming events at school.
Please mark the dates on your calendars.
Thurs./Friday
10/18-19- Parent Teacher Conferences
Tues.
Oct. 23- ASPAN Homeless Walk- 9:15 am
Fri.
10/26- Harvest Fest 6:30-9:30 pm
Thurs.
10/31- Halloween Parade- 10:00 am
Tues.
11/6- Election Day/Teacher Work Day
The
forecast for the weekend looks like it will be good for sports games. I hope you and your family will enjoy
some time together. As always, if
you have any questions, please let me know.
