Sunday, October 19, 2014
BENCHMARK TESTING
Third grade students will be taking Score 21 (previously known as Case 21) benchmark testing in math on Tuesday afternoon.
CHARACTER PROJECT AND CELEBRATION
This week in literacy, students will be completing a small project as we draw our character unit to a close. Students will be choosing a favorite character from a book that they have previously read. In class they will be completing a character description graphic organizer, as well as a character script written from the point of view of their character. These items will also be coming home in the green homework folder so that students may complete unfinished classwork at home throughout the week. (These sheets need to come back to school each day in order for students to work on them during literacy.) Students need to have a copy of their book because they will be using evidence from the text to describe the traits, thoughts, feelings, motivations, actions, and lessons learned of their characters. On Monday, October 27, students will come dressed as the character they chose and share a character presentation with their classmates. Students do not need to purchase items for this presentation. Mrs. Hill and I will be helping students at school with this project, but some of the work will have to be done at home to prepare for Monday's presentation.
OCTOBER - BULLYING PREVENTION MONTH
During the month of October, students have been participating in activities to learn more about the prevention of bullying. The following link is a great site that provides useful information regarding bullying prevention:
Mrs. Williams, our school counselor, also has information on her webpage for parents:
Some additional anti-bullying activities that will take place during the month of October are:
Monday, October 20th: Hawk Thomas from the Harlem Globetrotters will be here for a special
assembly. 10:15-10:45 3-5.
Friday, October 24th: Last day for posters and poetry contest. Also, we will be viewing the Douglas Drama Club's video production after the announcements.
The last week in October, we will have a spirit week. These are the following themes:
Monday, 10/27: Mustache Monday - I mustache you to be bully free (wear a mustache - get creative!)
Tuesday, 10/28: Let's shade out bullies (wear your sunglasses)
Wednesday, 10/29: Teacher workday
Thursday, 10/30: Being bully free is no sweat (wear sweat suit attire)
Friday, 10/31: Hats ON to being bully free (wear any kind of hat)
Sunday, October 5, 2014
UPCOMING DATES
October 17 - Early Release at 1:15 p.m.
October 29 - Workday- No School
October 30 - Science Night 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
OCTOBER - Bullying Prevention Month - Poster and Poetry Contest
October is national bullying prevention month, in which we focus our attention on promoting a bully free school. We will be having a "Stand Up, Speak Up" poster and poetry contest this month. Students can choose to creatively display the theme through a poster or a poem, their choice. Poster paper and information about the contest will be available in the media center, next to the Club Hub. There will be prizes for each grade level. Please encourage your students to participate!
READING INFORMATION
Your child's BOG scores will be coming home on Monday. On them, you will see an estimated Lexile level for your child based on their performance on the test. Lexile measures text complexity. This number is useful to you because there are a wide variety of search options available where you can put in your child's Lexile score and see lists of books that are appropriate. Of course, once you go to the library and check these books out, you'll still want your student to read a page or two outloud to you so that you can assess whether they know all the words and comprehend the text by asking them questions about the pages they read. You might find they need to go down a little bit in the text difficulty, but the Lexile level is a helpful guide to finding those "Good Fit Books." Barnes & Noble and Scholastic also have Lexile search engines that can help you! Here's a great site to search:
Thanks for helping your child read appropriately leveled books at home.
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