Thriving in Third Volume 25

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

• 24th: STEM Night @ 5:30pm

March

• 2nd: Open House & Art Night
• 13th-17th: Spring Break

April

• 4th: Reading MAP Testing
• 5th: Math MAP Testing
• 6th: Language Usage 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: Revision skills: Adjectives, commas

Foundational Skills: decoding & spelling prefixes (NON- & EN-)

Writing: responding to reading and revise/edit opinion essay

Vocab:

Reading: 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 presenting information about my hero.

Academic Vocabulary:

hero

heroic deed

This week in Math:

-Comparing Fractions

3.3H: compare two fractions having the same numerator or denominator in problems by reasoning about their sizes and justifying the conclusions using symbols, words, objects, and pictorial models

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