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Weekly Update

Good evening! 

There is a lot to share this week, so I will jump right in! We will be going on a field trip to the Botanical Gardens on Wednesday and will be eating lunch while we are there. Please send your child with a sack lunch (no lunchboxes) that has your child's name written on it! If you are one of the five confirmed volunteers, I will e-mail you separate details.  Please see below for more specific directions: 

Field Trip Reminder

We are so excited for our upcoming field trip to the Botanical Garden on November 19th. A couple of things to keep in mind:

• Please send a SACK lunch with your child’s name on it, as we will be eating at the Botanical Garden
• Please have your student dress for the weather, as we may be outdoors at some point
• Make sure your student is wearing comfortable walking shoes
• And Last….please make sure your student is here on TIME! The bus will depart from Long at 9:15 am sharp!

Please let us know if you have any questions regarding the field trip! We are so looking forward to it!

Thanks,

Third Grade Team 

Also, Long School will be celebrating our blue ribbon success this week by having a theme each day. Here is a list of what to wear each day should your child wish to participate:

Monday, November 17^th:  We are FLYERS! 

Wear your green and gold to celebrate that we are high achieving Flyers!

Tuesday, November 18^th:  We are CRAZY about Long School!

Wear crazy socks and crazy hair!

Wednesday, November 19^th:  Show your BLUE Ribbon Pride!

Wear blue to celebrate our big award!

Thursday, November 20^th:  Begin with the End in Mind!

Wear your best “Dress for Success” outfit to show how we are leaders in our school! 

Friday, November 21^st:  We are a 2014 National Blue Ribbon School!

All students will be given a Blue Ribbon t-shirt today to wear! 

Other important reminders:

• Progress reports and writing samples will go home this week. Please review, sign and return all materials and send back to school the following day. We will keep the writing samples in the portfolios at school until the end of the year. If you have questions, ask away!
• There will be a math test over Chapter 5, Understanding Division next Tuesday (the day before Thanksgiving Break). Students will need to write division sentences and use strategies based on pictures or word problems. After the break, we will shift our focus to applying multiplication and division and will need to start learning facts to make things easier.

What we are learning about (until Thanksgiving Break):

• Reading- using non-fiction text features and strategies for reading expository text
• Writing-working on paragraphing and organizing chapters for our informational books
• Spelling- all students will take a spelling test after Thanksgiving Break. See calendar in binder for details. 
•  Math- understanding division (making equal groups, writing division sentences, using repeated subtraction, etc. ) This is chapter 5 in the book if you would like more practice. 
• Science- classifying plants, identifying and describing parts of a plant, sequencing the life cycle of plants

 
Finally, please scroll down to the next post to see photos from the Halloween party. The link will take you to Shutterfly. Thanks again to Mr. and Mrs. Goddard for coordinating the Halloween Party. Mrs. Wagner will coordinate the winter party! The winter party will be in the morning as it is an 11:40 Early Dismissal day... just wanted to let you know in case you were not aware. Thanks and have a great week!

Halloween Pictures

Please click on the link below to see the Halloween pictures. You will be redirected to Shutterfly's website. Thank you so much Mrs. Goddard for taking these for us!

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Weekly Update

Good evening,

Parent teacher conferences are underway! Even though 15 minutes flies by, I am grateful that I get to sit down with each one of you and discuss your child's progress! This truly is a great class and I love how excited they are about plants and multiplication.... even during the week of challenge course in gym and  Halloween! Please see the posts below for pictures of Ability Awareness Day, our continents projects, and our explorations as botanists in our outdoor learning space. Fun times were had this week!

Reminders:

• If you have not already done so, please send the permission slip and money for the field trip to school when possible. If you have offered to chaperone the trip, I will be following up with you after conferences. 
• Please send your child to school in regular clothes on Thursday. The class will change after lunch for the Halloween party. There are guidelines for costumes (no scary masks, blood, weapons, etc.) so please call the office if you have questions. 
• All Halloween treats must be approved by the nurse before the day of the party. 
• The Halloween party is scheduled from 2-3 P.M. 
• There is NO SCHOOL on Friday (Halloween). Enjoy! 

Here is what we are learning about this week:

• Reading- beginning non-fiction unit (learning about bats this week!)
• Writing- informational writing (how to organize and include text features)
• Spelling- tests will be in another week... lots of activities lately have interrupted our time
• Math- introduction to multiplication (start practicing facts, see blog for sites!) 
• Science- plants unit (parts of a plant, plant needs)

I hope you enjoy the pictures! If I do not see you at conferences or the party, I hope you have a great week. Happy Halloween! 

We are third grade botanists!

This week, we took advantage of the 84 degree weather and went outside to explore plants. In science, we are beginning a unit on plants and even got a Venus Fly Trap to study! Students were very eager to use their magnifying glass and record their findings in a journal. We decided we were going to collect bugs to feed our fly trap!