Snapshot for September 3

Snapshot for September 3

 

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I can’t believe that the first 3 weeks of school have already flown by!  I am so excited to be your student’s Reading and Writing teacher.  Every week I will be sending out a “snapshot” to let you know what we have covered and what we are about to cover in class.

Next week, we will continue reading our first novel study over Back to School, Mallory by Laurie Friedman.  Last week we focused on chapters 1-6.  Next week we will cover chapters 7-9.  Next week, we will focus on character traits and will focus on the changes we see the characters in our book undergo.  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 also continue our study of dictionary skills and alphabetizing words to the 3^rd letter.  Many of us are struggling with this skill so I have attached optional practice links to the bottom of this email. The “Dictionary Task Cards” practice assignment will be sent home on Friday for you to see if the extra practice would benefit your student. There will be a graded assignment over this skill on Wednesday, September 4.

In writing, we will continue our personal narrative unit.  We are writing short stories about one moment from our lives.  We wrap up our study of the four types of sentences next week and will start our study of conjunctions and compound sentences.  There will be a graded assignment of the four types of questions on Tuesday, September 3.     

For homework, we will have spelling homework and a quiz over the “Long a and Long e” list on Friday, September 6.

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

+ Rachel Fendley

3rd Grade ELAR Teacher

Kimberlin Academy

RFendley@garlandisd.net  

Reminders:

September 2- No School

September 5- Meet the Teacher 6:00-8:00 pm in the Library

September 6 – Summer Slide Ice Cream Celebration: Get your yellow “Happy Camper” reading log turned into your 3rd grade homeroom teacher to participate!

Helpful Links:

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

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

Online Resources for Skills Practice: Optional practice games and resources for current skills are linked our class padlet and BoomCards account.  Each site has different optional practice opportunities.

·        Our class padlet account can be found on the classroom blog or by using the link below.

https://padlet.com/rfendley/owls 

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

§  Students have their BoomCard username stapled to their agendas

§  Password: 1234 or students may have changed it