Looking ahead to the week of October 6

Students enjoyed exploring the Nature Trail and working on an animal-centered scavenger hunt with their fifth grade book buddies.

Hello, families!  I hope you all are having a wonderful week!  

"Being There Experience" payment plan:  In your child's communication folder, you will find a "Being There Experience" payment letter.  Please read over this letter carefully, then sign and return it, as soon as possible.  The first payment (or full payment) is due Thursday, October 9.

Take a walk on the wild side:  Students will be visiting Riverbanks Zoo this Friday!  Please make sure your child wears tennis shoes and comfortable clothing.  Also, if you chose the option to send your child with a lunch from home, please do so... the cafeteria made only enough bagged lunches for those, who signed up for a cafeteria lunch!  Thank you to Ms. Boykin and Ms. Eastman, who were chosen randomly, for chaperoning our trip!

Off to the Lexington County Museum:  As soon as possible, please sign and return the permission form that went home in your child's communication folder for the Lexington County Museum trip.  

Looking ahead:  As mathematicians, students will continue working on developing strategies to solve measurement problems.  They'll be studying Module 2 -Topic B, Lessons 7-10 and Topic C, Lesson 12).  Remember, you can check out the Engage New York links at the bottom of our class blog, for more information about your child's math curriculum (Family Newsletter for Module 2, Topic B and Family Newsletter for Module 2, Topic C). In reading and language arts, students will kick off the Daily 5 rotation they have been waiting for since the start of school!  They have been practicing all of the elements of the rotation for the past few weeks, so they are ready.  During this rotation, whole group lessons will focus on wrapping up the TWISTS model for CLOSE readings, learning more about regular and irregular plural nouns, and creating detailed paragraphs for their animal research, using the Step-Up outline.  As scientists, students will wrap up their study on plants with a test Friday, October 10.

*Please note:  Students can take home any textbook, any day of the week, so long as they return it the following school day.  It is your child's responsibility to remember to take it home and bring it back!

A reminder from our third grade team:  Parents, you are always welcome to eat breakfast or lunch with your child. If you would like to eat with your child, we encourage you to sit at the school assigned guest tables. In the morning, you may sit with your child at a separate round table away from the other breakfast eaters. We do this so students will follow procedures, have adequate time to eat their breakfast, and get to class in a timely manner. At lunch, we have guest tables on the far side of the cafeteria. You are asked to sit there, so there are enough seats for all of our third graders at lunch. You are welcome to sit among the third grade students on our specified "Friends and Family" lunch day this year.  Thanks so much for your cooperation!

I hope you all have a great rest of the week and a super weekend!