Hello! What a great first week we had! We are already off to a great start! I hope everyone had a restful weekend.
Every Monday our newsletter will include homework assignments, important updates, and reminders. Upcoming events will be posted on the right hand side of this page.
Parents, please consider signing up to receive update notices for our newsletter page by clicking on the RSS feed button to the right. You will receive more information on how to do this at Parent Night on August 29. Please note that Feedly is the recommended program to store all of your RSS websites (i.e. the Lovett homepage, calendars, etc.).
Homework begins this week! Each student will receive a copy of the third grade guidelines for homework. Children should keep it somewhere in their homework binders to refer to it as needed. The guidelines can also be found under the curriculum tab on our website under homework. All assignments are due the following Monday from when they are assigned, with the exception of the math home links which should be turned in the day after they are assigned.
Math:
This week we will launch into Unit One of our Everyday Math curriculum. Students will review some of the key concepts they learned in second grade, while exploring number grids, displaying and analyzing data, and discussing equivalent names for numbers.
Students should leave their Everyday Math Home Links book in their white, homework binders. Home links should be completed the same night we teach the corresponding lesson (not before), and returned to school the next day. The following home links are assigned for this week:
- 1.1 due Tuesday
- 1.2 due Wednesday
- 1.3 - due Thursday
- 1.4 - due Friday
- 1.5 - due next Monday, August 25
Reading:
In reading we will be discussing our lives as readers, and learning the routines of the Reading Workshop. Students will begin checking out their "just right" books this week. They should spend 4 nights a week reading these books for 30 minutes each night, and log their reading into their reading logs. Completed reading logs will be due on Mondays.
Writing:
In Writing Workshop this week, we are learning the routines of the Writing Workshop, and collecting ideas in our writing notebooks for our personal narratives unit. Each student received a composition book that will serve as their writer's notebook this year. Their homework assignment this week is to decorate the covers of their notebooks with clips from magazines, pictures of family, and anything else that's of interest to them as writers. (Parents, once notebook covers are decorated, you may want to consider coating them with Modge Podge or covering with contact paper.) Students will use these pictures as one source of inspiration for their writing this year. Their decorated notebooks are due next Monday, but I ask that the kids return their notebooks to school each day, as we will be writing in them in class this week.
Social Studies:
During social studies, we are discussing who and what make up a community. We will come up with our own expectations for our classroom contract, and begin exploring how these expectations affect our classroom and and surrounding school community.
As you and the children are still learning the ropes of third grade, please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions you might have.
Thanks for stopping by! Here's to a great year! : )
Every Monday our newsletter will include homework assignments, important updates, and reminders. Upcoming events will be posted on the right hand side of this page.
Parents, please consider signing up to receive update notices for our newsletter page by clicking on the RSS feed button to the right. You will receive more information on how to do this at Parent Night on August 29. Please note that Feedly is the recommended program to store all of your RSS websites (i.e. the Lovett homepage, calendars, etc.).
Homework begins this week! Each student will receive a copy of the third grade guidelines for homework. Children should keep it somewhere in their homework binders to refer to it as needed. The guidelines can also be found under the curriculum tab on our website under homework. All assignments are due the following Monday from when they are assigned, with the exception of the math home links which should be turned in the day after they are assigned.
Math:
This week we will launch into Unit One of our Everyday Math curriculum. Students will review some of the key concepts they learned in second grade, while exploring number grids, displaying and analyzing data, and discussing equivalent names for numbers.
Students should leave their Everyday Math Home Links book in their white, homework binders. Home links should be completed the same night we teach the corresponding lesson (not before), and returned to school the next day. The following home links are assigned for this week:
- 1.1 due Tuesday
- 1.2 due Wednesday
- 1.3 - due Thursday
- 1.4 - due Friday
- 1.5 - due next Monday, August 25
Reading:
In reading we will be discussing our lives as readers, and learning the routines of the Reading Workshop. Students will begin checking out their "just right" books this week. They should spend 4 nights a week reading these books for 30 minutes each night, and log their reading into their reading logs. Completed reading logs will be due on Mondays.
Writing:
In Writing Workshop this week, we are learning the routines of the Writing Workshop, and collecting ideas in our writing notebooks for our personal narratives unit. Each student received a composition book that will serve as their writer's notebook this year. Their homework assignment this week is to decorate the covers of their notebooks with clips from magazines, pictures of family, and anything else that's of interest to them as writers. (Parents, once notebook covers are decorated, you may want to consider coating them with Modge Podge or covering with contact paper.) Students will use these pictures as one source of inspiration for their writing this year. Their decorated notebooks are due next Monday, but I ask that the kids return their notebooks to school each day, as we will be writing in them in class this week.
Social Studies:
During social studies, we are discussing who and what make up a community. We will come up with our own expectations for our classroom contract, and begin exploring how these expectations affect our classroom and and surrounding school community.
As you and the children are still learning the ropes of third grade, please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions you might have.
Thanks for stopping by! Here's to a great year! : )