We are doing a FUN review for STAAR.  This is it FOLKS!  Your child will be doing a carnival this week.  We hope it will encourage them to relax and have fun while reviewing all this skills and challenges we have put before them.  Our reading test is coming up on the 9th.  We don’t want any stressing going on, just letting our kiddos know that they have got this!  We will show them that they do!  Please encourage them!  Students will earn tickets as they review during class and them use them in a carnival situation to also earn prizes.  Talk to your kiddos this week about what we are reviewing, not just the prizes that they earn. (EX: How did you earn your tickets?  Want to show me more about this on cambium?). If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email me, message me on parent square, or contact me. by phone.

In Social Studies, we will research topics and create projects with the information found regarding explorers/influential famous Americans.  

Important Dates:

• April 4-Spring Pictures
• April 8-Eclipse (The school has purchased special glasses for students to view the Solar Eclipse.  If you do NOT wish for your child to participate, please contact their homeroom teacher.)
• April 9-STAAR Reading
• Apring 23-STAAR Math

We will continue our review for STAAR this week! Thiw includes looking back at informational text, argumentative text and revise and edit skills this week. We will be working in the site Cambium.  This is where your child will be taking STAAR.  This past week, we held a parent meeting and discussed the tools associated with this site and how your child uses them.  We will be sending home a printout of the slides from those meetings, please look over them and if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.  We will be reviewing informational text, argumentative text and revise and edit skills this week.

In Social Studies, we will also be continuing our discussions on financial literacy.  We will be working in Brainpop and using  short answer responses to show our knowledge of the concepts: earn, save, spend, donate, income, human capital, etc.

Don’t forget our Spring Book Fair this week!  Mrs. Skeen has been working hard to get this ready and we are all VERY excited!!

Easter Parties are on Thursday from 10:15-11:15.  Please sign your child out with their homeroom teacher, if you plan to take your child home after the party.

SCHOOL WILL BE OUT ON FRIDAY AND MONDAY…ENJOY THE LONG WEEKEND!

NEXT WEEK IS SPRING BREAK!!! (Enjoy your time off!!!)

When we return we will be reviewing for STAAR.  We will do our best to make this exciting and beneficial at the same time.  Please be sure your student is here everyday and ready to learn.  Each day is very important!  We will also be continuing our financial literacy learning with writing samples of earning, saving, donating, and spending.

Here are some important dates to remember:

• March 11-15th – Spring Break

MONDAY:

• TELPAS

TUESDAY:

• TELPAS

WEDNESDAY:

• 3rd, 4th, 5th – STAAR Interim Reading Assessments

THURSDAY:

• 3rd, 4th, 5th – STAAR Interim Math Assessments
• Report Cards
• PTO Paint Party @3:30 in the Cafeteria

If you have any questions or concerns with your student, please feel free to contact me by email: [email protected], through the school office, or by parent square.

Important Dates:

• Feb 26/27-Monday and Tuesday-Reading Common Assessment
• Feb 28-Wednesday-Early Release
• March 5-Tuesday-Library Day-Don’t forget your books!!
• March 11-15-Spring Break

This week, we will be taking our common assessment on Monday and Tuesday.  We have been working hard this past week, reviewing and getting ready for this.  The kids are prepared.  Make sure they are rested and have a good breakfast on these mornings.  Please have students bring their library books or a book to read when they finish testing.

Don’t forget about early release on Wednesday.  We have our own learning to do after the kiddos leave on that day.

Start locating those library books!  Students need to get some good books to read over the Sprink Break that is fast approaching.

What we are learning:

Report cards went home today!  Please sign those and return them with your child.

This week we are learning:

Reading – We will be refreshing our memory over fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from before the break before we dive into new material. We are reviewing our common assessment from before the break.  (Those grades will be posted this week in the gradebook, but WILL NOT count towards grades.  These will just be for your information only.)

Writing – We will revise and edit passages and working on our Daily Oral Language.

Social Studies – We will talk about the different traditions that are done for the New Year.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me.  I will gladly set up a conference by phone or in person.

Remember-Monday is a holiday!  NO SCHOOL (Martin Luther King)

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

• Homework goes home Fridays and is due the following Thursday
• Field Trip – Tuesday, November 7th
• Food Drive Begins this week
• Big Kahuna Party Bus on November 8 for qualifiying students-please return permission slips asap
• Fundraiser Delivery-November 9

Reading –

3.9Di central idea with supporting evidence

3.9Diii non-fiction organization patterns such as cause/effect and problem/solution, description, compare/contrast, sequence

Writing –

3.11C revise drafts to improve sentence structure and word choice

Social Studies –

3.14C we will discuss veterans day and the significance of it

This will be a short week, but with a lot of learning!!!  This week we will:

Reading: Continue in the fiction genre with the read aloud, “Thundercake” by Patricia Palocca.  The kids are really enjoying learning about her writing/illustrating style.  Some of the story vocabulary we will focus on will be:stammered, surveryed, crowed, penned, luscious, treller, and samovar. (Reading Skills:3.7F respond using newly acquired vocabulary appropriately). We will also learn more about characterization in this genre and how character traits can change throughout that story. (3.8B explain the relationships among the major and minor characters).  We will continue discussing story elements( 3.8C analyze plot elements, including the sequence of events, the conflicts and resolution) work on using the 6 syllable types in helping us with our reading of words.( 3.2Aiv decoding words using syllable division patterns such as VCCV, VCV and VCCCV).  We will introduce the meaning of prefixes to help us with the understanding of the words we are reading (3.2Av decoding words with knowledge of prefixes).

We will coninue working on poetry skills with reading “The Wind”.  We will test these skills this week of rhyme scheme, rhyming words, stanzas, poetry, lines, and basic comprehension of poems. ( 3.9B rhyme scheme, sound devices, and structural elements such as stanzas.)

Language Arts:We will introduce prefixes and their meanings in our writing and to spell. (3.2Bvi spelling words using knowledge of prefixes).  We will also respond to our reading of Thundercake to work on drafting in the writing process.(3.12A compose literary text, including personal narratives and poetry)

Social Studies:  We will be looking at   local celebrations in the our  community with other communities  using graphic organizers such as a venn diagrams.(3.13.B compare ethnic and/or cultural celebrations in the local community with other communities*)

TUESDAY IS OUR LIBRARY DAY-STUDENTS WILL NEED THEIR BOOKS THAT DAY!

IMPORTANT:  NO SCHOOL ON FRIDAY!  WE WILL BE STARTING OUR BIG KAHUNA FUNDRAISER THIS WEEK.  BE WATCHING FOR THAT INFORMATION TO COME HOME.

HOMEWORK IS DUE ON THURSDAY AS USUAL.

It’s been another great week!  I am enjoying my students so much.  I hope they are enjoying my classes as well.  This past week We sorted nouns, verbs, pronouns, and adjectives. ( 3.2Bi, 3.2Biv, 3.11A, 3.11Div) and located them in  our sentences.  We read stories and discussed their genres , their vocabulary, and their meanings   We learned MORE about our community around us.  Next week ,we will be learning the following skills:

Reading:  We will read  “Saturdays and Teacakes” by Lester Laminack as our interactive read aloud.  As we read, we will review practice these skills:3.8A infer the theme of a work, distingusihing these from topic, 3.8D explain the influence of the setting on the plot, 3.2Aii decoding multisyllabic words w/ closed, open, VCe syllables, vowel teams, diagraphs/dipthongs,r-controlled, final stable (le),3.7C use text evidence to support an appropriate response,3.7G discuss specific ideas in the text that are important to the meaning. We will practice ABC order and will even take a grade at the end of the week. 3.2C alphbetize a series of words to the third letter.)

Writing: We will respond  to the text we read.  We will review  to identification of  adverbs, adjectives, nouns, and verbs (3.11v) and how they are used in your writing.  Students will practice brainstorming their ideas.(3.11A)plan first draft by selecting a genre for topic, purpose, and audience).  We will have another grammer quiz at the end of the week.  (We noticed after last week’s quiz that we needed to do some extra reteaching with these parts of speech!)  

Spelling: We will continue learning how to spell our 10 high frequency words from last week: about, bring, even, has, live, only, say, there, wash, after. (3.11D.xi correct spelling of words with grade appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and HFW).  We will introduce and work with contractions and compound words 3.2Aiii decoding compound words, contractions and abbreveations).

Social Studies: Students will be begin learning about our local and state governments. (3.2A, 3.14B,3.14C,3.15A,3.15D,3.15E)

Students will have book bags coming home this tomorrow (9/5)!  Please read with your child every night!  Homework will also come home on Friday (9/8). It will be due next Thursday (9/14)/.

We had a great week this past week!  We have done so much.  We sorted nouns, verbs, pronouns, and adjectives. ( 3.2Bi, 3.2Biv, 3.11A, 3.11Div) and located them in  our writing.  We read stories and discussed their genres , their vocabulary, and their meanings   We learning about our community around us.  Next week ,we will be learning the following skills:

Reading:  We will read The Can Man by Laura E. Williams as our interactive read aloud.  As we read, we will practice these skills:3.8A infer the theme of a work, distingusihing these from topic, 3.8D explain the influence of the setting on the plot, 3.2Aii decoding multisyllabic words w/ closed, open, VCe syllables, vowel teams, diagraphs/dipthongs,r-controlled, final stable (le),3.7C use text evidence to support an appropriate response,3.7G discuss specific ideas in the text that are important to the meaning.

Writing: We will respond  to the text we read.  We will learn to identify adverbs (3.11v) and how they are used in your writing.  Students will practice brainstorming their ideas.(3.11A plan first draft by selecting a genre for topic, purpose, and audience)

Spelling: We will begin learning how to spell our first 10 high frequency words.  These will be coming home in your child’s planner as well: about, bring, even, has, live, only, say, there, wash, after. (3.11D.xi correct spelling of words with grade appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and HFW)

Social Studies: Students will be learn about how communities meet the needs for government, education, communication, transportation, and recreation. (3.2B, 3.14A,B,C, 3.15A,D,E) vocabulary-communication, transportation, recreation, government, education

Don’t forget: PTO meeting Monday @6pm!!!

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