Mrs. Fendley's Outstanding, Wonderful Learners!: September 2018

Friday, September 21, 2018

Snapshot for September 24

This week was Cyber Safety Week! All of the Cyber Safety Posters looked amazing! Mrs. Papa was so excited to have so many entries! Thank you and good job to everyone who participated!

Next week, we will start our novel study over “Be a Perfect Person in Just 3 Days” by Stephen Manes. We will focus on the first 2 chapters of this text. During stations, will we finish our plot projects and homophone activities. Several students took station work home today to make sure that it would be completed by its Thursday due date. Students are also able to work on their Technology Station Flocabulary assignments from home if they want to work ahead or if they fall behind. Students will need to go to Ready Hub http://bit.ly/2jPAU6L to get onto Flocabulary. At the top, students will have an assignments tab that will list the activities that have been assigned to their account. In writing, we will wrap up our persuasive unit. Students will create the final drafts of their persuasive piece. We will also complete our Map Skills Unit in Social Studies. There are optional practice links on below.

For homework, we will have our 100 minutes of at home reading assignment due on Monday, September 24. We will not have spelling this week. Our R-Controlled Vowels list will be due on October 5.

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

+ Rachel Fendley

3rd Grade ELAR Teacher

Kimberlin Academy

RFendley@garlandisd.net

Reminders:

September 24- Reading Log Due

September 26-27 – Mrs. Fendley off campus at a workshop!

September 28 – Spirit Sticks on sale during lunch, Family Fun Night from 6-8 PM *PTA meeting at 5:45!

October 1- Reading Log Due

October 2 – Fall Pictures

October 3 – Gilmour Gallop forms due (participation form linked)

October 5 – Donuts with Dudes, Gilmour Gallop race, and PRIDE Parties! R-Controlled Vowels list due

Helpful Links:

Spelling City: https://www.spellingcity.com/RMLittre/

Mrs. Fendley’s Blog: https://mrsfendleysowls.blogspot.com/

Online Resources for Skills Practice: All of our links can be found at our new padlet account and on the classroom blog.

https://padlet.com/rfendley/owls

o BoomLearning: https://wow.boomlearning.com/student-login

§ 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

Friday, September 14, 2018

Snapshot for September 17

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Thank you to everyone who came Meet the Teacher this Thursday! We loved getting to spend the night with you! Attached you will find the PowerPoint presentation from Meet the Teacher. Please let us know if you have any questions. J

Next week is Cyber Safety Week! Attached is the Cyber Safety Poster Contest Flyer. Entries are due on September 21 if you would like to participate. I also attached the new Texas Bluebonnet Award Program that our amazing librarian, Mrs. Papa will be doing in the library this year!

On Tuesday and Thursday, we will have MAP testing first thing in the morning. Please send a jacket because the computer lab may be chilly. In class, we will get goals and talk about the importance of taking your time to show what you know on these assessments.

Next week, we will complete our novel study of Back to School, Mallory by Laurie Friedman. Students will have a test over the book on September 21. A study guide will be going home with students on Monday. We will focus on character traits and will focus on the changes we see the characters in our book undergo. We will also continue to 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 persuasive unit. Students will continue to write their rough draft of their persuasive piece. In grammar, we will focus on homophones. In Social Studies, we will continue our Map Skills Unit. There are optional practice links on below.

For homework, we will have our 100 minutes of at home reading assignment due on Monday, September 17. We will also have our spelling homework and test due on Friday, September 21 over the Single Syllable Homophones. We will continue to use the same spelling menu. All materials have been linked to the blog.

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

+ Rachel Fendley

3rd Grade ELAR Teacher

Kimberlin Academy

RFendley@garlandisd.net

Reminders:

September 17- PTA Hat Creek Spirit Night! We hope to see you there! Mrs. Fendley will be there around 6:30! J

September 17- Reading Log Due

September 21- Spelling homework and test – Single Syllable Homophones

Helpful Links:

Spelling City: https://www.spellingcity.com/RMLittre/

Mrs. Fendley’s Blog: https://mrsfendleysowls.blogspot.com/

Online Resources for Skills Practice: All of our links can be found at our new padlet account and on the classroom blog.

https://padlet.com/rfendley/owls

o BoomLearning: https://wow.boomlearning.com/student-login

§ 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

Friday, September 7, 2018

Snapshot for September 10

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Thank you to everyone who came to help the 3^rd Grade Team sort and prepare our new resources! We really appreciate your help and couldn’t have done it without you!

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 continue to 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 start our persuasive unit. Students will create their own persuasive writing and will take it through the writing process. In grammar, we will focus on common prefixes. There are optional practice links on below. In Social Studies, we will continue 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 Monday, September 10. 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.

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

+ Rachel Fendley

3rd Grade ELAR Teacher

Kimberlin Academy

RFendley@garlandisd.net

Reminders:

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:

Spelling City: https://www.spellingcity.com/RMLittre/