Thriving in Third Volume 24

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!

February

• 17th: No School
• 20th: No School
• 24th: STEM Night @ 5:30pm

March

• 9th: Open House
• 13th-17th: Spring Break

April

• 5th: MAP Testing
• 6th: MAP Testing
• 7th: No School - Good Friday
• 17th: Mrs. Franks' Birthday
• 18th: Reading STAAR Test
• 28th: Multicultural Day

May

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

Grammar: Adjectives - Comparative & Superlative

Foundational Skills: decoding & spelling prefixes (pre-)

Writing: responding to reading and plan opinion essay

Vocab:

Reading: Fact vs opinion, Identifying the claim, using text evidence

3.11 (B) identify and describe the heroic deeds of individuals such as Harriet Tubman, Todd Beamer, and other contemporary heroes

I can describe heroic deeds by using a graphic organizer.

Academic Vocabulary:

hero

heroic deed

This week in Math:

-Equivalent Fractions

3.3F: represent equivalent fractions with denominators of 2, 3, 2, 6, and 8 using a variety of objects and pictorial models, including number lines

This week in Science:

- Environments/Ecosystems

-Environmental Changes

12.C: describe how natural changes to the environment such as floods and droughts cause some organisms to thrive and others to perish or move to new locations

Jennifer Tuffs- jtuffs@leisd.ws

Brittany Golec- bgolec@leisd.ws

Jennifer Franks- jfranks@leisd.ws

Shua Cho- scho@leisd.ws