Week 7

This Friday, students received the first of their Friday Updates. This is a small yellow slip pasted onto the bottom of your child's weekly homework sheet. It is intended to give you a snapshot of how your child was during the school week. Often it is a compliment on your child's general behavior or a remark about a topic your child is working on. Please review this over the weekend and sign the sheet so I know you have seen it.

This week, we worked on writing our reading response with more explanation to help up the level of our writing. Due to the shorter week, we did not send this assignment home, which is why the assignment was crossed off the homework sheet. We will send a new sheet home on Monday.

Here's what's coming next week:

• On Tuesday, we will have our Chapter 2 Math test. It was a quick unit on Data that built on what your child learned in the second grade. We have been working on reading the story problems more carefully this unit and students are encourage to read and reread the problem in chunks and to think about how numbers can replace parts of the story. The problems in the book can contain much information in very few words!
• Here are two links that might be helpful for your child: http://www.smartygames.com/igre/math/halloweenMath.html In this seasonal game, you have to use the left or right arrows of the keyboard to move the ghost underneath the pumpkin with the answer to the math expression. Watch out for the bat, which will move the ghost back to the starting point!

          https://www.ixl.com/math/grade-3/interpret-line-plots 

• Picture Day will take place on Wednesday. We will receive instructions for how to order pictures soon. Please keep an eye out for a notice in your child's folder.
• The Annual Boo Bash will take place on Saturday, October 21. 

Have a cozy weekend!