Week 4: October Family Friday and Cluster Schedule

For our first Family Friday of the year, third graders will put on an All About Me exhibit. The following notice went home with your child on Friday, explaining how each child will prepare for this event:

All About Me 

Bag Due Monday, September 26

For our Family Friday on October 7, you will display some “All About Me”artifacts so that we can get to know you better. Please collect 5-6 special objects that represent you.  Place these objects inside the attached bag.  For instance, you could include your favorite book, something that shows your hobby, a souvenir from a fun trip, etc.  Anything you bring in needs to fit inside the bag.  No electronics, expensive items, or anything that might break easily. Please collect your artifacts and bring your bag to school on or before Monday, September 26.  We will prepare some writing to go along with our displays in the days before Family Friday.  Have fun collecting!

Cluster Schedule: 
In addition to daily reading, writing, math, and social studies, the children will also receive instruction from teachers outside the class. We are participating in Art, Computers, Physical Education, Science, Music and Theater Arts classes. Third Grade will  also participated in a Dance enrichment and I will let you know when we have a schedule.

Our weekly schedule looks like this:

·      Monday: Science at 10:10 am with Mrs. Gamboi

·      Tuesday: Art at 9:25 am with Ms. Kelly

·      Wednesday: Physical Education at 9:25 am with Ms. Moore

·      Thursday: Computers at 10:10 am with Mr. DoTran

·      Friday: Theater at 10:10 am with Mr. Gioia followed by Music with Ms. Gabel at 11:00 am

Here's what to expect in the following week:

• We will have our first math test on Thursday. This will wrap up Unit 1 and we will move onto a unit on Representing and Interpreting Data, which includes reading graphs and charts.  
• This Friday, we took a Mid-Chapter Checkpoint Assessment so that students could get a refresher on test conditions. This assessment will be sent home to you on Monday with feed back on areas we could work on to help our children do better on the upcoming Unit 1 test. 
• On Thursday, we will have our Curriculum conference night. This is an opportunity for parents to come and meet teachers in the cluster classes as well as the your child's main teacher. Third Grade teachers will make a presentation in the cafeteria from 6-6:30 pm. Afterwards, there will be an opportunity for you to come to our classroom to tour the room. 

Finally, it was great to see so many parents come to our first classroom event. You were an excellent resource as we worked on decorating the children's Writer's Notebooks. The kids are very excited to have their beautiful and personalized notebooks. Thank you for taking the time to come in!

Have an excellent weekend!