News in the
3rd Grade
What We’ve Been Up To!
Don’t Forget…Mark Your
Calendars!
2nd & 3rd – no schoolteacher workdays
6th *Fall Picture
Retake
*Learning Celebrations
are today in the MP
Room.
9th – GOTR & CyberRobotics
11th – No School
13th – Krispy Kreme
Fund Ends, Doughnuts
for Dad
16th –GOTR, Cyberrobotics
19th – Sweet Frog
Night, GOTR
20th –POM, Krispy
Kreme Delivery
23rd – GOTR, TIPS,
Cyber-robotics,
25th-27th- No
School- Happy
Thanksgiving!
30th –Cyber-robotics
Happy Birthday!
Reading: The Daily 5 is up and running in full
swing! We have studied the skills of authors
view point, touched on authors’ purpose, and
authors’ mood. We are now wrapping up literary
elements, sequencing, and character traits. We
have discussed things good readers do while they
read. Our reading brains should always be busy
monitoring what we are reading. We have
discussed text features in both fiction and
nonfiction books. We’ve talked about why the
author puts features in their books and how it
helps us understand what we are reading. Ask
your child to point out a text feature in their
books and why it helped them understand the
information more. Get your child involved with
real world tasks. For example, while your cooking
you could ask your child what ingredients you
need to get out for the recipe. Where can they
find the ingredients in the recipe? We’ll continue
to be studying nonfiction and informational texts
this month!
Math: We have worked hard on our addition and
subtractions strategies. Thank you for hanging in
there with us in learning all of our new
strategies. We’ve been pulling those numbers
apart to investigate what they are really
representing. We have also been working hard on
our rounding and patterns and we will be
exploring that more throughout the year. For
the first few weeks we will be working on
different polygon shapes and their many
attributes. Try to find different polygon shapes
when you are out and about. If you really want to
get it to it, measure the sides and find the
perimeter of the shape!
Science: Ask your child about their the human
body and how our bones and joints help us! Ask
them if a plant eats dirt!
Social Studies: We will be wrapping up
government and discussing historical events that
happened in our community with our nonfiction
texts during reading.
Writing: Ask about our writer’s notebook. Ask
your child about their heart or their
neighborhood map! Soon we will be publishing our
stories from our launching unit of Writer’s
Workshop and having a “Writer’s Celebration”.
A Note From the Teachers:
Thank you so much for scheduling your
child’s parent/teacher conference as
soon as possible! Keeping the
parent/teacher communication strong is
the key to your child’s success this year!
The first 9 weeks flew by! We hope you
have a warm holiday season with family
and friends! Thanks again for sharing
your children with us every day! 
Family FUN for
November!!
Please take the time to check out our
classroom websites. The students can show
you how to navigate through it, look at the
calendar, find our pictures, etc. Please check
it out and look at all the cool new things it
has! We have added some resources to help
you at home as well as videos to help with
homework.
November EOG Words:
entertain
inform
persuade
(author’s purpose)
parallelogram
attributes
Polygon
Panthers of the Month
Kahlen Cuddie-Sciuva
Jealyn McIntosh Scopel
Jennifer Saravia- Bright
12th Zaid Lott
13th Jayda Hollis
24th Genesis VillaSamuel Howard- Barrese
Mancia
28th Alonta’e
Jimmy
Xiong
educational purposes
only. -Currie
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