Dear families,
I hope that you all made special holiday memories over Winter Break and are ready to approach the 2019 part of your child’s third grade school year with renewed purpose. The students have returned to school and settled into their routines pretty well. I hope that on Monday they are even more on task and focused on their learning!

Thank you to all the families that donated supplies, time, and ideas to make sure our Winter Celebration was such a fun experience for the students. We loved all of the games Mrs. Elder planned and all of the support from Ms. McClannan and Ms. Young who volunteered in the classroom!
Next week in Reading we will be learning about main idea for nonfiction, especially when reading real world text. The students will have a reading power test on Friday, January 11. In Writing we will be sorting words with long and short vowel sounds for i, a, and o. The students will learn how to write a friendly letter. In Social Studies we will complete our unit of study on Greece and Rome. A test is tentatively scheduled for Friday, January 11. In Math we will begin a unit on telling time to the minute, equivalent periods of time, and using a thermometer to measure temperature.
Please help your child at home by checking their folders and agendas every night. The students have been instructed to write in their agendas “Read for 20 minutes and record in your agenda” for the entire second nine weeks. Students who read at home for at least twenty minutes nightly as much more successful with learning new vocabulary words and increasing their comprehension. In addition, please make sure that your child is using Moby Max at home. They are assigned lessons in Reading to support our class instruction as well as encouraged to practice fact fluency in Math. As an incentive in class, students who have demonstrated mastery of basic facts for addition, and 50% of subtraction by Monday, January 7 will earn an extra recess here at school.
For the month of January, Capitol Waffle Shop is featuring a special Trevvett menu with six of our students’ creations! Proceeds benefit our school! Treat yourself to breakfast for dinner, or brunch on the weekends!
Upcoming Events:
Friday, January 11- Reading power test, Greece and Rome test (on paper)
Monday, January 21-No School: Martin Luther King Jr., Day
Friday, January 25-End of second nine weeks/PAW Achievement field trip for qualifying students
Monday, January 28-no school for students/Teacher work day
Thursday, February 7-Evening Parent Teacher conferences(sign up genius to come soon)