Dear Parents,

Thank you for coming out and supporting our Living Wax Museum Night!  I really appreciate your time and support! Words cannot express how proud I was of all of our amazing students last night.  Every one of them was fantastic and have accomplished so much during the course of this two-month project. To learn about our upcoming “City Project”, please see the attached parent letter.  It contains information about the project, a timeline of due dates, and the grading rubrics.

Thank you to all of our parent chaperones who joined us on our Heard trip!  You made this trip so enjoyable and so much fun.  Please email me any field trip photos so that we can use them in our End of the Year slideshow.

Next week, students will begin their informational texts unit.  We will be focusing on “Dear Benjamin Banneker” by Andrea Davis Pinkney.  Our reading skill will be identifying the main idea within an informational test.  Students will also focus on different text features that are used in nonfiction texts. Students will have a quiz over nonfiction text features on November 30, 2017. A study sheet will go home before Thanksgiving break and there are study links below.

In writing, we continue to discuss simple and compound sentences. Please look at the link below to help students get a head start on this skills. There will be a graded assignment on these skills on November 16, 2017.  I strongly suggest practicing the Education Galaxy link below.

For homework, we have a “Marvelous Memories” Assignment for Grandparents’ Day.  We are asking students to interview a grandparent and a “grandfriend”.  The interview questions are attached.  “Marvelous Memories” will be due Thursday, November 16 in preparation for Grandparents’ Day.    Between our field trip and the Veteran’s Day Ceremony, this assignment did not make its way home in hardcopy form.  A hardcopy will be sent home on Monday. We do apologize for any inconvenience.

We will also have our 100 minutes of at home reading assignment due on Monday, November 20.  I attached the spelling list.  We took a week off of spelling due to the Living Wax Night and Heard Field Trip so the list is the same one that was sent last week. The spelling homework and the quiz will be due on Friday, November 17. Spelling City Certificates can also be submitted by email to my email address.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Have a great weekend!

Rachel Fendley

3rd Grade ELAR Teacher

Kimberlin Academy

RMLittre@garlandisd.net

Reminders:

November 11- PTA Carnival at Kimberlin!

November 14- College Shirt Day

November 17- Grandparents’ Day 8:10-10

November 20-24- Thanksgiving Break

 Online Resources for Skills Practice:

• Grammar:  Education Galaxy “Study Plan- writing” Topic – Simple and Compound Sentences
• 15 different game options from Sqworl: https://sqworl.com/w3kmal
• Sentence Power: http://harcourtschool.com/activity/sentence_power/index.html
• Simple & Compound Sentences - Rags to Riches: https://www.quia.com/rr/483587.html
• Match the Phrases: https://www.turtlediary.com/game/match-the-phrases-simple-compund-and-complex-sentences.html
• Blake’s Jeopardy Game: https://jeopardylabs.com/play/blakes-simple-and-compound-sentences-game
• Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/syntax-sentences-and-clauses/types-of-sentences/e/simple-and-compound-sentences
• Study ladder: https://www.studyladder.com/games/activity/compound-sentences-22744

• Reading: Main Idea
• Main Idea Millionaire: http://www.roomrecess.com/mobile/MainIdeaMillionaire/play.html
• Main Idea Lightning Strike: http://www.roomrecess.com/mobile/MainIdea/play.html
• Main Idea Hamburger game: http://www.pspb.org/blueribbon/games/burger/burger.html
• Reading: Nonfiction Text Features
• Education Galaxy “Study Plan- Reading” Topics – Context Clues, Dictionaries & Glossaries, or any topic under “Informational Text”
• Identify the Text Features: https://www.education.com/game/text-features/
• Nonfiction Memory Match: https://matchthememory.com/goldmine
• Nonfiction Text Jeopardy Game—Multiplayer! : https://www.superteachertools.us/jeopardyx/jeopardy-review-game.php?gamefile=248633#.WfPYbWhSyUk

Online Resources for Skills Practice on the Upcoming Unit 3:

• Grammar:  Education Galaxy “Study Plan- writing” Topic – Verbs
• Reading: Cause and Effect:
• Ice Cream Scoop: http://www.roomrecess.com/mobile/CauseEffect/play.html