Snapshot for September 4
Thank you to everyone who came to the PTA Spirit Night at YogurtLand! It was great to see so many of our students outside of school.
Next week, we will continue to read Back to School, Mallory by Laurie Friedman. We have limited copies of this text so if students have their own copies of this book at home, they are welcome to bring them to school. We will focus on character traits and will focus on the changes we see the characters in our book undergo. We will also focus on the structure of a fictional text and on identifying the plot elements. There are optional practice links on below.
In writing, we will continue our personal narrative unit. Students are taking their composition focusing on their first day of school through the writing process and will create final drafts next week. We will continue to focus on verb tenses in grammar, focusing on past, present, and future verbs. There will be a graded assignment over verb tenses next week. There are optional practice links on below. In Social Studies, we will move to our Founding a Nation Unit as we continue to learn more about the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and our Founding Fathers.
For homework, we will have our 100 minutes of at home reading assignment due on Tuesday, September 4. We will also have our spelling homework and test due on Friday, September 14 over the prefix de- and dis- list. We will continue to use the same spelling menu. All materials have been linked to the blog.
If anyone is available to donate their time on Tuesday, September 4, we would really appreciate it. We need some help preparing and sorting new resources that we have received to use with our upcoming units and lessons. We are so excited to have these materials but could really use help getting them student ready! The 3rd Grade team will leave all materials in the Kimberlin Workroom Tuesday morning. If you are available, please let us know.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
+ Rachel Fendley
3rd Grade ELAR Teacher
Kimberlin Academy
Reminders:
September 3- No School
September 4- Reading Log Due
September 10- Reading Log Due
September 13- Meet the Teacher 5:45-8 pm in the Library
September 14- Spelling homework and test – Prefix de- and dis- list
September 17- PTA Hat Creek Spirit Night! We hope to see you there! J
Helpful Links:
Online Resources for Skills Practice: All of our links can be found at our new padlet account and on the classroom blog.
§ The username will be your student’s first names & last name initial followed by an underscore (_) and the word “fendley”.
§ Example: Lily Moldenhauer = lilym_fendley
§ Password: 1234 or students may have changed it
§ If your student goes by a shortened version of their given name, the username will reflect that. Rebecca White = beccaw_fendley
