November 30, 2018

Some news from third grade -- 

Board Game Day

On Monday, December 3, we will be playing board games because we have earned another 300 sticks for being Respectful, Responsible, and Safe.

Students may bring a board game from home to play with friends.  Each student will be responsible for keeping up with all of the pieces to their own game.

Congratulations!!!

Cultural and Literacy Night

We will celebrate different cultures around the world and literacy night on Thursday, December 6, 2018.  Please come and see all the work students have done celebrating different cultures and customs of the world.

Holiday Party

Our Holiday Party will be held on December 19, 2018, at 9 AM.  We will be serving breakfast foods, play games, and possibly have a craft.  It will be a great time!!  Parents are welcome to attend.  Please click on this link to sign up to bring a dish. 

Groovy-O-Rama

Tomorrow is our Groovy-O-Rama!!  The kids have been working hard to make this a great performance.  Our show starts at 9:50.  You might want to get here early to get a good seat.  Parking won't be an issue, because we are the first performance!!!

Pictures

If your student was here for picture day, the packet is in their Thursday folder.  If you did not order pictures, but would like to, you can look at the proofs and make your decision.  There is an order form in the envelope.  If you did order pictures, your complete order is in the envelope.

Interim Progress Reports

In your student's Thursday folder, you will find their Interim Progress Report.  If there is a note about missing/incomplete work, don't worry.  We are working on it, but it just did not get completed before grades had to be submitted.  Please celebrate with your child in regards to their successes.  If improvement needs to be made, discuss how it can happen.

Update on what is happening in third grade...

Math

We have been learning some multiplication strategies and have just started fractions.  We will continue fractions next week.  Keep practicing those math facts!!

Reading/Writing

We are studying expository text.  We have learned about text features and how these types of books are arranged.  We have started writing an expository piece, also.  Exciting!!

Social Studies

We have been learning about heroes and timelines.  We are learning a lot about how timelines can help us organize events.

Science

We are studying force and motion, gravity, and magnetism.  We did an exploration with pushing and pulling forces of magnets using cars.  It was fun!!

TAG Testing Information Night

If you are interested in more information regarding TAG and the testing process, please come to the information night on Monday, November 5, 2018 at 5:30.  

Field Trip

We will be heading to the Performing Arts Center at Cedar Ridge High School on Friday, November 9.  We will get to see a performance of The Phantom Toll Booth.  This is exciting because the theatre department at Cedar Ridge always puts on a good show!!

Veterans Day Program

Our program will be on November 12, 2018 at 9:00 AM.  If you have a veteran in your family, please invite them to attend.  Our choir will be singing and they always do a wonderful job.

Groovy-O-Rama

Mark your calendars!  Our students have been working hard to make this performance spectacular.  I hope you can make it on Friday, November 16 at 9:50.  Get here early for a good seat!!

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Picture Day

Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 17, 2018, is picture day.  If you placed an order online, great!  If you want to place an order using the form that went home, please send it with your child tomorrow.  Wear your best smile!!

Dismissal

If your child is a front walker and needs to change to a back walker (meet in the garden), please let me know.  This change will go into effect on Monday.

Green Paw Gardening Club

We will meet this Thursday, October 18.  If your child has signed up for Gardening Club, please let me know.  We have had a few glitches with the online form, and we want to make sure we know who is supposed to attend the meeting.

Field Trip Permission Form

Please sign this pink form as soon as you can and send it in with your child.  The signature line is on the back of the form.

Thanksgiving Lunch

If you would like to join your student for our Thanksgiving lunch on November 15, please fill out the form and send it in.  The due day is Friday, October 19.  You may choose to bring your lunch if you do not want to eat the lunch from the cafeteria.

Fall Goal Setting Conferences

If you have not signed up for a conference on October 9, 2018, please follow this link to do so.  If this day does not work for your schedule, please let me know and we can find another time that will work.

Scholastic Book Order

If you would like to purchase some books for your student, please visit the Scholastic website.  Our class number is MDLT7.  If we have a total class order of $100, each student will receive a free book.  If an individual order is $25 or more, your student will receive a free book.  Please submit your order by October 5.  I will place the order over the weekend.

Service Club

Our service club is collecting toys to donate to Dell Children's Hospital.  We have a student at FCE with a disease called OMS (Opsoclonus Myoclonus Syndrome) which is a rare childhood disease that has no cure. The doctors think it is caused when the child's immune system tries to fight a cancerous tumor and instead attacks the brain. This family has spent many days in the hospital because of this disease. They know what it is like to have a child become frustrated with being cooped up in a hospital room. A new toy can spread some light in a dreary situation. If you are able to donate a new toy, please drop it in the box near the office.

Box Tops for Education

Please send in your box tops.  The class with the most box tops collected will win a free Kona Ice celebration!!

Class Celebration

Our class has earned another 300 sticks for being Safe, Respectful, and Responsible.  We will celebrate on Thursday, October 4, 2018 with board games.  Students can bring in board games and we will have a time to play.  Students will be responsible for keeping up with all of the pieces that belong in their game.

School-wide Celebration

Our school has earned 100 golden paws.  That means classrooms have earned 300 sticks 100 times.  We will celebrate on October 10 with a sidewalk chalk party.  The school will provide sidewalk chalk.  We will all go outside at 8:10 to draw on the sidewalk!!

Interim Progress Reports

I hope you are celebrating your child's success so far in third grade.  If you have any questions, please let me know.

Scholastic Book Order

I have included two brochures for Scholastic.  If you would like to place an order, you can do so with the order form or online.  Our class code is on the back of one of the brochures.  Scholastic is offering an incentive for October.  If you spend $25, you will get a free book for your student.  If the class order is $100 or more, we will get a free book for each student.

Please place your order before October 5, 2018.

Apps Form

There is a form that needs your signature.  It has a list of apps that we may use in school.  I need written approval from you in order for your student to use these apps.  Please send the signed form in as soon as possible.

Important information from 3rd grade...

Grandparents Luncheon

We always look forward to having our grandparents on campus during this time of year.  Please make sure you check in at least 30 minutes early.  The line can get long.  If you have registered, your badge will already be printed for you in the office.  If you choose to bring lunch from outside the school, you will be able to sit down and eat sooner rather than later.  The cafeteria line gets backed up fairly quickly.

Also, if there is no room for you to sit at the table in the cafeteria, please make your way to the library.  This will be where 3rd grade will go if we run out of space in the cafeteria.  

Please do not take your grandchild's friend with you.  You may only take your grandchild.

Writing Club

Calling all Writers!  Writing Club will begin on Monday, Sept. 17 after school at 2:55. Writing Club will be every OTHER Monday.  In Writing Club, the students in  grades 2-5 free write and share their writing.  We will have a mini-lesson and talk about a writing craft or strategy. Then the writers can choose to write whatever they want.  It can be a poem, story, rap, comic, essay.... anything.  They can write individually or in groups.  They can choose to share their writing with others as well.  It is a place and opportunity for children to be creative and use their imaginations in a risk free environment.  Writing Club will take place in the library and we will walk out to the front of the school for pick up. After school, the kids will meet in the gym and Mrs. Bartholomew will pick them up to go to the library to write.  All 2-5th graders are welcome. Questions? Email pam_bartholomew@roundrockisd.rg or dana_engstrom@roundrockisd.org  

PTA Meeting

There will be a PTA meeting on September 11, 2018, at 6:00 in the cafeteria.  If you have signed up to volunteer in any way, including being a Watch DOG, there will be an orientation session during this meeting.  There will also be FREE pizza!!

Google Classroom Assignments

We have started to use Google Classroom to do some assignments on the computer.  You can have your student sign in on Google Chrome and look at the assignments.  Please do not allow your student to work on these assignments at home.  If any are not finished, we will finish them at school.  Thanks!

TAG Parents Back to School Night

This is for current TAG students only.  Back to School Night will be September 13, 2018, at 5:30 in the library.

September 1, 2018

First Week Back to School

We have had a wonderful week back at school.  We have been learning about graphs and charts in math, reading and writing workshop expectations, properties of matter, and being a good citizen.  Everyone has done a fabulous job remembering the school-wide expectations!!

I look forward to another incredible week of learning.

Have a great weekend!!

School Supply Drop-off

August 14, 2018

A-L 4:00 PM

M-Z 4:45 PM

First Day of School

August 16, 2018

7:40 AM - 2:55 PM

Meet the Teacher Night

August 21, 2018

Open House - 5:00 PM

Parent Information Session - 5:30 PM

Field Day has been postponed due to weather.

The new date is May 18, 2018

STAAR Testing April 10-11, 2018

No visitors on campus.

Have a great three-day weekend!!

Field trip - April 6, 2018

All Abilities Play Park in Round Rock

Congratulations to all 3rd grade students!!

The Inventor Museum was a success because everyone worked so hard!!

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STAAR Ready Testing

February 12 -- Math

February 13 -- Reading

This is a practice test for STAAR.  Please make sure your child has a good night's sleep and a healthy breakfast.  Send a water bottle, snack, and chapter book to school with your child.

Our Inventor Living Museum will be on February 8, 2018, 10:45 - 11:30 AM.  All parents and families are welcome to visit.