Miss Barge's Third Grade Class: October 9

What we are learning in school:
Language Arts: This week we worked on making connections and inferring. Students practiced reading a text and then used their background knowledge and facts from the text to infer (figure something out). You can use the attached paper to practice these reading strategies at home.

Math: We worked on subtracting and solving word problems with money this week. We will have a test on Monday over money. Please remind your child to practice for our test by completing some of the papers he/she brought home today.

Genius Hour: This week we started learning how to use our Genius Hour folders when researching. We tried to do some research on the ipads, but had a rough start. We will continue researching for several weeks, so hopefully next week will go smoother! If your child wants to research for their Genius Hour project at home, they can. Just remind them that they need to keep track of where they are finding their information so they can cite it later. The website log in the folder would be a good way to do this. We will continue researching on Tuesday. Students who researched at home will want to make sure they bring back their folder and notebook with information they found.

Syria: Our play from last week was about a family that immigrates to America. We discussed why people immigrate and talked about how people are still immigrating today. One of our discussion topics was the refugees from Syria. Our class was very concerned about the people who are leaving their homes and don’t have shelter or extra clothing. Several students wrote proposals for me on how our class could help these people. We are going to start off small by putting a jar in our classroom for any extra change that students want to bring in. We will collect money throughout this semester. I will look for a reliable organization to donate the money. Your children inspire me with their caring spirits!

Important Dates:

October 12 – PTO money due (our class will win a special treat if we bring in the most money!)

October 13 – First grading period ends (reading incentive paper due)

October 13 – PTO Walkathon

October 20 & 21 – Parent Teacher Conferences

October 22 & 23 – Fall Break

October 29 (9:05) – Honor Roll

ISTEP – Feb. 29-March 11

IREAD – March 14 – 18

ISTEP - April 18-May 6

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