Altamonte Elementary School 3rd Grade Newsletter NOTES This is the last month of HOMEWORK: Students should be Science Focus Skills: reading a minimum of 30 mins every Trimester 2. Report Cards will Stars and the Sun night. Parents should encourage be coming home the beginning the sun is a star discussion with your child about what of March. Please continue stars emit light and energy they are reading to check for reading 30 minutes each night Social Studies Focus: Government understanding. Please also speak with and practicing all math facts. your child about reading an even World Communities amount of fiction and nonfiction Focusing on… Spelling Lists books. Math facts are also a necessity Here’s a preview of the skills List 1 for fluency. This will range from because though we will be working on this adding to subtracting to multiplication taught bought month! facts. Students are also encouraged to touch would English/Language Arts (ELA) work on iReady Reading and Math for author could 20 minutes per session. Focus Skills: September enough sausage PLANNERS: Please check and sign Focus Skills: fought should planners nightly! This is our most Central Message, Point faucet daughter immediate form of communication brought of View, Theme, Text with home! List 2 Features and Structures ceiling neighbor DIVIDENDS: If you are interested in Grammar: Using either eighteen being a dividend at our school or for Apostrophes height neither field trips, please fill out the (Possessives and weight leisure application online to be processed. Contractions) The process for approval may take protein freight anywhere from 1-3 weeks. Even if you receive weigh Writing: Growing have applied in the past, every year, deceive sleigh sentences with adding you are required to reapply. conceited vivid verbs and adjectives. Focus on List 3 Questions? Contact us! Narrative pieces. Telling rocky foolish Mrs. Ortiz a story to answer our rainy childhood W-H question words. selfish treatment Mrs. Fentress movement neighborhood childish parenthood Mrs. Keener Math Focus Skills: Unit 3: crunchy bumpy Expanding Multiplication and payment sleepy Ms. Downer Division and Fractions shipment understand fractional Mrs. Strittmatter parts List 4 Mrs. Adams represent fractions on a few school true goose number line Ms. Batcheler fruit cookie find equivalent fractions cushion noodle solve multi-step word Mrs. Kindy bookmark balloon problems Susan_Kindy@scps.k12.fl.us suit chew glue Tuesday bushel
Altamonte Elementary School 3rd Grade Newsletter This is the last month of Trimester 2. Report Cards will be coming home the beginning of March. Please continue reading 30 minutes each night and practicing all math facts. Focusing on… Here’s a preview of the skills we will be working on this month! English/Language Arts (ELA) Focus Skills: September Focus Skills: Central Message, Point of View, Theme, Text Features and Structures Grammar: Using Apostrophes (Possessives and Contractions) Writing: Growing sentences with adding vivid verbs and adjectives. Focus on Narrative pieces. Telling a story to answer our W-H question words. Math Focus Skills: Unit 3: Expanding Multiplication and Division and Fractions understand fractional parts represent fractions on a number line find equivalent fractions solve multi-step word problems Science Focus Skills: Stars and the Sun the sun is a star stars emit light and energy Social Studies Focus: Government World Communities Spelling Lists List 1 because though taught bought touch would author could enough sausage fought should faucet daughter brought List 2 ceiling neighbor either eighteen height neither weight leisure protein freight receive weigh deceive sleigh conceited List 3 rocky foolish rainy childhood selfish treatment movement neighborhood childish parenthood crunchy bumpy payment sleepy shipment List 4 few school true goose fruit cookie cushion noodle bookmark balloon suit chew glue Tuesday bushel NOTES HOMEWORK: Students should be reading a minimum of 30 mins every night. Parents should encourage discussion with your child about what they are reading to check for understanding. Please also speak with your child about reading an even amount of fiction and nonfiction books. Math facts are also a necessity for fluency. This will range from adding to subtracting to multiplication facts. Students are also encouraged to work on iReady Reading and Math for 20 minutes per session. PLANNERS: Please check and sign planners nightly! This is our most immediate form of communication with home! DIVIDENDS: If you are interested in being a dividend at our school or for field trips, please fill out the application online to be processed. The process for approval may take anywhere from 1-3 weeks. Even if you have applied in the past, every year, you are required to reapply. Questions? Contact us! Mrs. Ortiz Mrs. Fentress Mrs. Keener Ms. Downer Mrs. Strittmatter Mrs. Adams Ms. Batcheler Mrs. Kindy Susan_Kindy@scps.k12.fl.us
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