Thriving in Third Volume 29

Information packets will be coming home this week. Our kickoff assembly will be Friday at 3:00. This is going to be so much fun!!

In order to boost engagement and learning in reading and math, we are implementing "A" weeks and "B" weeks. This week is an "A' week, which means the students start in their normal homeroom. On "B" weeks, the students would start with the opposite subject areas. We are going to do this through the first week of May. We will remind the kids in the mornings. Please reach out to your child's homeroom teacher if you have questions.

A Week (Week of 3/20, 4/3, 4/17, 5/1)

Golec: Block 1 Math, Block 2 Reading

Tuffs: Block 1 Reading, Block 2 Math

Franks: Block 1 Math, Block 2 Reading

Cho: Block 1 Reading, Block 2 Math

B Week (Week of 3/37, 4/10, 4/21)

Golec: Block 1 Reading, Block 2 Math

Tuffs: Block 1 Math, Block 2 Reading

Franks: Block 1 Reading, Block 2 Math

Cho: Block 1 Math, Block 2 Reading

The students need headphones, pencils, scissors, and crayons/colored pencils in a pencil poutch or box, everyday. Please ask your child if they need any of those items replenished. We have plenty of pencils and glue sticks at school!

April

• 4th: Reading MAP Testing
• 6th: Math MAP Testing
• 7th: No School - Good Friday
• 10th: No School
• Science MAP Testing (TBD)
• 11th: No School
• Language Usage MAP Testing (TBD)
• 14th: Structures & Functions Science Test
• 14th: Ninja Fun Run
• 17th: Mrs. Franks' Birthday
• 18th: Reading STAAR Test
• 20th: Geometry & Measurement Math Test
• 28th: Multicultural Day

May

• 2nd: Math STAAR Test
• 12th: Unit 9 Science Test
• 19th: Early Release @ 12:05 & Last Day of 3rd Grade!

Grammar: Revision skills: punctuation, compound sentences, items in a series

Foundational Skills: decoding & spelling suffixes (-ed, -or, -ed, -ing)

Writing: analyzing texts across multiple genres and writing a response

Vocab:

Digital text, Evidence, Genre, Graphic feature, Informational text, Key ideas, Literary text, Multimodal text, Organizational patterns, Synthesize, Text/print feature, Voice, Word choice

Reading: Using STAAR question stems with paired passages. Continue to work on using text evidence.

5(A) identify ways of earning, spending, saving, and donating money

I can identify ways of spending and saving money by completing a web diagram.

This week in Math:

- Weight (pounds & grams)

- Capacity (volume)

3.7D: determine when it is appropriate to use measurements of liquid volume (capacity) or weight

3.7E: determine liquid volume (capacity) or weight using appropriate units and tools

This week in Science:

- Animal Adaptations

- Plant Adaptations

3.13: explore and explain how external structures and functions of animals such as the neck of a giraffe or webbed feet on a duck enable them to survive in their environment

Jennifer Tuffs- jtuffs@leisd.ws

Brittany Golec- bgolec@leisd.ws

Jennifer Franks- jfranks@leisd.ws

Shua Cho- scho@leisd.ws