Announcements - 

• 11/18 - 11/20 - Ms. Mo off island 
• 11/20 - Lower School Taste of Thanksgiving 11:30 - 1:00 p.m. 
• Remember- Thursday is a full school day.  The feast will end around 1:00 just let me know if your kiddo is leaving early with you or another family. Enjoy!
• 11/21 - No School - faculty workshop
• 11/24-28 - No School - Fall Break
• 11/30 - School resumes
• 12/18 - Lower School Winter Concert 8:45 am
• 12/21-1/6 - Winter Break
• 1/7 - School resumes

Ask Your Child About - 

• Community Building
• Silly Stringing Mr. Sinfield
• November Birthday's - Rodney, Timothy, Ayat and Milo!

• Math
• Place value
• Rounding to the tens, hundreds, and thousands place
• Comparing values on a number line
• Expanded/Decomposed form
• Time on Analog and Digital!

• Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)
• Books on Kindness
• Enemy Pie by Derek Munson
• Taste Your Words by Bonnie Clark
• Learning the technique of writing - a personal narrative
• Dictionary - the way to use one
• Fundations - the schwa in a word and knowing how to spell them - wagon, travel, salad, pollen, lemon, planet, rocket, pocket, bucket, helmet, and jacket.
• Cursive writing

• Science/Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• Kindness Around the World
• Veteran's Day - history and information
• Pollination and Plant Reproduction - pumpkins!

• Homework 
• Nightly reading log - 20+ minutes
• Fundations worksheets
• Math Games

October

 - Mark Your Calendars - 

• After School Activities (Fall Session) began 9/29 and run through 11/14
• 4-H Club - Monday
• NAHS Wearable Art - Thursdays
• Run Club - Thursdays
• Chess Club - Fridays
• NHS Study Group - Fridays

• 10/10 No School - Teacher Workshop

• 10/13 No School -  VI&PR Friendship Day

• VI Junior Duathalon - Sunday, October 19th at Altona Lagoon ages 5 - 15

• Friday, October 24th: Fall Conference Day No School

• Halloween Fun! October 31 - Costume Parade (school day) and Boo Bash 4 - 7 pm  

• 11/3 No School - Bull and Bread Day - David Hamilton Jackson

• 11/24 - 11/28 No School - Fall Break

    

Ask Your Child About - 

• Community Building
• Fun Run Fundraiser
• October Birthday's - Amira and Quin!
• Welcome Indigo to the 3rd Grade Group!

• Math

• Numbers and number system
• counting and sequences
• negative integers
• reading a thermometer - positive and negative
• place value - multiplying/dividing by the value of 10 and 100's 
• Rounding to the nearest 10's and 100's place value

• Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)

• My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero
• The Third Grade Reader by Curious Bee
• Donavan's Word Jar by Monalisa DeGross
• The Best Weekend Ever 
• Spelling words in class work - son, sun, sum, some, patches, from, glasses, foxes, halves, plain, plane, missed, mist, exhale, reptile, confuse, athlete, inside, cave, trombone, flute, mail, male, captive, school, inflate, inflatable, compete, competing, bravely, bravest.
• Working with suffixes - s, es, est, ed, changing the f to a -ves, and adding an extra consonant for the -ing
• Cursive writing

• Science/Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• Hispanic Heritage Month
• How to Predict a Storm from the Cloud Formation
• Weather Around the World
• Bats and Spiders Oh My!

• Homework 
• Nightly reading log - 20+ minutes
• Fundations worksheets
• Math Games

- Mark Your Calendars - 

• Picture Day: Monday, September 29th

• After School Activities (Fall Session) begins 9/29 and runs through 11/14
• 4-H Club - Monday
• NAHS Wearable Art - Thursdays
• Run Club - Thursdays
• Chess Club - Fridays
• NHS Study Group - Fridays

• Fun Run - Thursday, October 2nd

• No School - Friday, October 10th (Teacher Workshop) and Monday, October 13th (VI&PR Friendship Day)

• VI Junior Duathalon - Sunday, October 19th at Altona Lagoon 

• Friday, October 24th: Fall Conference Day (more information to come)

• Halloween Fun! October 31 - Costume Parade (school day) and Boo Bash 4 - 7 pm  

Ask Your Child About - 

• Community Building
• What makes our classroom work?
• How to be a good friend.
• Fun Run Pep Rally
• September Birthdays - Zaina, Lujain, Zayn and Ares!!

• Math

• Numbers and number system
• counting and sequences
• negative integers
• coins and time review
• understanding place value
• STAR testing

• Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)

• We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins
• Be You! by Peter H. Reynolds
• Island Born by Junot Diaz
• The Third Grade Reader by Curious Bee
• Donavan's Word Jar by Monalisa DeGross
• Bronze and Sunflower by Cao Wenxuan
• Spelling words in class work (2 wks) - no, know, hatch, stitch, scratch, lunch, crunch, stretch, write, should, witch, which, squash, wash, have, bolt, spring, scold, child, grind
• Understanding "glues letters" to build words
• Writing an opinion paragraph about their favorite day of the week and stating reasons why.
• STAR testing

• Science/Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• Where do clouds come from?
• The water cycle.
• Creating a Storm Spotters Guide

• Homework 
• Nightly reading log - 20+ minutes
• Fundations worksheets
• Math Games

Social Emotional Learning with Ms. Bird - 3rd Grade worked on how to deal with their different daily emotions.

Birthday Celebrations Zayn and Ares!

September Birthday!!

                                                                     Fun Run Reward Days!

Fun Run Pep Rally!

  - Ask Your Child About - 

• Community Building
• Morning Meeting
• Created Classroom Contract
• First Fire Drill - successfully accomplished the task!
• Celebrated 2 Birthdays this week - Zaina Abdelghani and Lujain Farraj
• Friday Gathering 9.5.25 - New Student Intros (Welcomed Kitami, Rodney and Quin!)

• Math
• 2nd Grade Review
• Money
• Time
• Fact Families
• Word Problems
• Math Stations

• Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)
• Do Unto Otters, By L. Keller
• Be Kind, By P. Z. Miller
• The Recess Queen, By A. O'Neill
• I Promise, By L. James
• Maybe Something Beautiful, BY F.I. Campoy and T. Howell
• Writing and creating projects from each book read in the classroom

• Science/Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• Observed and studied termites (via video) learning the steps of being a scientist.
• Student scientists took over the class to predict, observe, record, investigate, and share.

•     Homework 
• Nightly reading log - 20+ minutes

- Announcements - 

• Tuesday, 9/16: STAR Math Assessment
• Thursday, 9/18: STAR Reading Assessment
• Thursday, September 25th @4pm: Parent Information Afternoon (meet in Pavilion for greeting from Admin and light refreshments and then pick up your child from the playground and meet me in our classroom!)
• After School Activities (Fall Session) begins 9/29 and runs through 11/14
• Run Club - Thursdays
• Friday, October 24th: Fall Conference Day (more information to come)
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