Hi Parents,
It’s hard to believe that the school year is coming to an end and this is our final newsletter. It has been a pleasure working with each of your children this year. Thank you for supporting the third-grade teachers in our endeavors to give them the best education possible. This week students will be sharing their entrepreneur projects, working on making solar ovens and cooking smores. On Tuesday, third grade students will have an opportunity to meet on the playground and exchange autographs/messages with one another. This can be done in the yearbook (if they have been delivered by then!), an autograph book, or paper of the students’ choosing. Your children will need a pen or Sharpie as well. Please stress to your children that they will be writing on someone else’s property and are expected to write neatly and respectfully. May 20th- Discovery Lab Slime Party! May 22nd- Class Party May 23rd-Students' LAST DAY OF SCHOOL! Report cards will be sent home Hi Parents,
I hope you had a great weekend! Please refer to the ABC Countdown to see what activities we have planned for this week! Homework – Last week, our class earned no homework for this week! Sign and Returns- Please return all Sign and Return papers from this year for Dolvin's records. Thank you! Census Forms- Please send back all Census Forms as soon as possible. Our grade books and attendance records will be move to a new system and having accurate information for your child in this system is imperative. These are due back on May 17th. Reading- We will continue to review folktales. Students will look at various folktales and discuss the moral of the story and what makes it a folktale. We will also be reviewing 3rd Grade standards that we have learned throughout the year. We will be presenting our poetry projects this week. Writing- Students will be participating in Genius Hour. They will brainstorm about questions they have or things they wonder about. They will then research these topics. Grammar- We will continue to work on reviewing our grammar standards from this year. Social Studies - As we wrap up our Economics Unit the students will begin creating their business projects and acting like Entrepreneurs. We will create and present these projects in class. Students will be creating paper products that they could sell to the public (we will not actually be selling these). Please send in the paper materials that your child would like to use to create their business. We will only be using paper, scissors and glue to make these products. (bookmarks, origami, paper airplanes etc.) Upcoming dates and reminders: May 13th- Reading to Kindergarten (bring in children's books to read) May 14th- Bring a stuffed animal (please make sure it is a smaller one) May 17th- STEM Day (please send in empty 2 liter bottles) May 22nd- Class Party May 23rd-Students' LAST DAY OF SCHOOL! Have a wonderful week! Hi Parents,
I hope you had a great weekend! Please refer to the ABC Countdown to see what activities we have planned for this week! Homework –We will not have any homework this week due to our class reaching our class goals for great behavior. Please make sure to study sort 33 this week with your child. We will have a spelling quiz on Friday, May 10th over sorts 31, 32, and 33. We will also have our Economics test on Thursday, May 9th. Solar Ovens- If you signed up to bring in supplies for our solar ovens, please send them in this week. I appreciate you all pitching in to make this possible. We are going to start building our ovens on the May 13th. If you have old newspapers, please send them in. The newspaper acts as an insulator for our ovens and right now we do not have anyone signed up for newspaper. Reading- We will be reviewing folktales from before Georgia Milestones. Students will look at various folktales and discuss the moral of the story and what makes it a folktale. We will be focusing on fables and myths this week. We are also going to be sharing our poetry projects with the class this week. Writing- For the next few weeks of school, we will be continuing to review the elements and expectations for narrative, informational, and opinion writing as well as constructive responses. We will also include some creative writing with the different types of writing we’ve studied. This week, students will be researching how a newspaper is made. They will write their own newspaper, including specific parts we’ve discussed in class. We will also be working on cursive. Grammar- We will continue to work on reviewing our grammar skills from this year. Social Studies - Our final unit this year is our Economics Unit. In this unit, students will define and give examples of the four types of productive resources: natural (land), human (labor), capital (capital goods) and Entrepreneurship (risk-taking and combining natural, human, and capital resources in an attempt to make a profit). Students will also give examples of interdependence and trade and explain the benefits of voluntary exchange. ( consumers and producers). In addition, students also will be working on describing how goods and services are allocated by price in the marketplace and explain that some goods are made locally, and some elsewhere in the country, and some in other countries. Finally, students will explain the concept of opportunity cost as it relates to making a saving or spending choice. Students will begin brainstorming for their business project (what business they would like to open, what resources they would need). We will have our Economics test on Thursday, May 9th. Upcoming dates and reminders: May 8th- Book Fair (we will be attending the book fair this day at 11:00 am. Please have your child bring money for this if they would like to buy a book). May 9th- Sign and returns Have a great week- Kendall Watkins |
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