3^rd Grade Newsletter

Parents please make sure your child:

-gets a good night’s sleep

-eats breakfast

-does homework

-reads daily

It’s that time of year:

We began the new year with a bang at North Vista. We continue to encourage parents to read with or listen to your child each and every day. This helps each child become a life-long learner. Third grade is expecting our Life Structure kits any day. The children will love this area of study. This unit presents many hands-on experiments. Multiplication is our math goal for the third nine weeks. Every student needs to work on knowing all of the multiplication tables. We practice every day in school and the children should continue to practice at home. Social Studies is all about the Civil War and slavery. We also continue our focus during our reading block. Independent and shared reading, grammar, and writing with a concentration on parts of speech and sentence structure. This month we are learning all about adjectives.. We make connections when we read, such as text-to-self, text-to-text and text-to-world. To improve reading skills, the children work with our reading assistances and University Tutors as they learn to work in reading groups.

Events:

North Vista, administrators, teachers, and staff take pride in our students. We have wonderful students. Our students work hard and persevere at North Vista to meet their academic goals. We are very proud of all students.

Skills covered the 3nd 9 weeks:

Reading – summarizing, recalling details, inferring, sequence, making predictions and drawing conclusions, comparing and contrasting, identifying all genres of books, sentences and sentence structure, and grammar.

Math – Multiplication facts, review of all math skills in the first and second nine weeks

Science – Structures of Life

Social Studies –Civil War and Slavery

Dates to remember:

1/24 – Report cards

2/8 - Teacher Work Day/Staff Development – no school for students

2/20 – Interim Reports Issued

2/27 –Staff Development – Early dismissal for students

Please remember to check homework and take-home folders, read and sign agendas, and read 20 minutes a night with your child.

Thanks for all you do!!