Education is the key to success in life.
-Solomon Ortiz
Important Dates:
10/29: STEM Lab
10/30: Make sure to fill out the Food Permission
10/31: Halloween Parade, Party, Early Release
11/01: Library
11/02: Early Release, Dress Down
Classroom Information:
Thank you all for coming to Parent-Teacher Conferences! I love having the opportunity to share all of the amazing things that your child has been learning and accomplishing.
Positive Me Week:
Monday: Hat Day
Tuesday: Team Jersey Day
Wednesday: Halloween, wear your costumes!
Thursday: Super Hero Day, wear a super hero shirt
Friday: Crazy Hair Day
Food Permission:
If you have not filled out the food permission, please scroll down to last week’s blog post to do so. We will have treats on Wednesday during our Halloween Party! If your child does not have a food permission filled out, they will not be able to enjoy the spooky treats that will be shared.
Homework:
It’s easy! 20 minutes of reading every night and Reflex. Please make sure that your child gets a green light in Reflex AT LEAST 3 times during the week. If doing Reflex at home is not possible at times, please send me an email or Bloomz message so that I can arrange for your child to have an opportunity to get it completed at school.
Work hard. Be kind
If you can be anything, be kind
-John Dewey
Important Dates:
10/22: STEM Lab
Book Fair Begins
10/23: Parent/Teacher Conferences
10/24: Witch Dressing
10/25: Library, Parent/Teacher Conferences
10/26: Early Release, Dress Down
Classroom Information:
I am looking forward to seeing all of you at Parent/Teacher conferences over the next few days. I get to share a great deal of information with you about your child’s current level of mastery as well as share the wonderful things I love about your child. In order to make sure that there are enough spots for everyone’s conference, I had to schedule slots very tightly. Please be on time! If we find that we need to spend additional time discussing anything, we can schedule a time meet at a later day.
Food Drive:
It’s still going on! Please send in any non-perishable foods that can support one of our local food pantries.
Apple Witches:
We will be dressing Apple Witches on Wednesday the 24th at 1:30 in the afternoon. If your child has not brought his or her dress, hat, gloves, and stick, please make sure they have it no later than Wednesday morning.
Food Permission:
Below is the food permission form for the entire year. Please fill this out and be sure to include any substitutions that your child may need for any food allergies.
Homework:
It’s easy! 20 minutes of reading every night and Reflex. Please make sure that your child gets a green light in Reflex AT LEAST 3 times during the week. If doing Reflex at home is not possible at times, please send me an email or Bloomz message so that I can arrange for your child to have an opportunity to get it completed at school.
Work hard. Be kind.
Education is life itself
-John Dewey
Important Dates:
10/15: Remember to sign up for a conference
STEM Lab
10/16: Last day to bring cans for the food drive
10/17: FALL BREAK
10/18: FALL BREAK
10/19: FALL BREAK
Classroom Information:
Fall Break is October 17th-19th.
Parent-Teacher Conferences are just around the corner. If you haven’t signed up for a Parent/Teacher Conference, please do so on the BLOOMZ post from last week. If you need any help, please let me know via email.
Food Drive:
Thank you all for the great support for the Food Drive Dress Down. Our class contributed a total of 200 items! There is still time to donate more food on Monday and Tuesday, and I encourage you to send in anything you can. This is a great opportunity to teach our children that they can always make an impact, no matter how young they are!
Apple Witches:
You should have gotten a letter with instructions and patterns for creating the witches’ clothes. You are welcome to start sending in dresses as soon as you have them sewn. Please have witch dresses returned to school no later than October 16th. If you need someone to sew your dress, just send the pre-cut pieces in a baggie with your child’s name and I will hand it off to one of the many volunteers that have offered their time and talents. If you did not get the Apple Witch instructions, please let me know and I will send another one home with your child.
Homework:
It’s easy! 20 minutes of reading every night and Reflex. Please make sure that your child gets a green light in Reflex AT LEAST 3 times during the week. Even though we are only in school 2 days this week, I STRONGLY encourage you to make a tiny opportunity to do Reflex over the break. I have realized that the Reflex app for phones is not available right now. I’m hoping it will be back soon, and when it is I will make sure to let you all know. If doing Reflex at home is not possible at times, please send me an email or Bloomz message so that I can arrange for your child to have an opportunity to get it completed at school.
Work hard. Be kind.
Parents-
The Fall Parent-Teacher conference sign-up has been posted. Please log in to BLOOMZ in order to choose a slot that works best for your family. If you haven’t joined our class, please download the app or go to www.bloomz.com. You can add our class by entering the code: B4AW7S
There is so much information to share and I look forward to talking with you all soon!
Work hard. Be kind.
Alone we are SMART, together we are BRILLIANT
-Steven Anderson
Important Dates:
10/8: FOOD DRIVE until October 19th
STEM Lab
10/9: Picture RETAKES
10/10:
10/11: Library, don’t forget to bring your books!
10/12: Food Drive DRESS DOWN, Spirit Day, Early Release
Classroom Information:
Fall Break is October 17th-19th.
Parent-Teacher Conferences are just around the corner. Conferences will be held the evenings of October 23rd and 25th. You will sign up for conferences through BLOOMZ, and I will let you know as soon as I open the sign-ups. I have a great deal of information to share with you, so please make sure to sign up.
For anyone who signed up to help with the Halloween Party, please check for a BLOOMZ message containing a code to add the party planning sub-group.
Food Drive:
Quest is partnering with BESST Realty to host a Food Drive to benefit a local food pantry. This food drive will run until October 19th. We are collecting canned food, NON-perishable food items, travel size and regular size hygiene items, toothbrushes and floss. This is a great opportunity to become involved with helping the community, as well as a chance to earn class points. Please keep in mind that we are only in school until October 16th, before being out for Fall Break.
Apple Witches:
You should have gotten a letter with instructions and patterns for creating the witches’ clothes. You are welcome to start sending in dresses as soon as you have them sewn. Please have witch dresses returned to school no later than October 16th. If you need someone to sew your dress, just send the pre-cut pieces in a baggie with your child’s name and I will hand it off to one of the 2 volunteers that have offered their time and talents. If you did not get the Apple Witch instructions, please let me know and I will send another one home with your child.
Coming This Week:
This week in Math we are working on developing fluency with multiplication! This will include continuing to work with fact families, learning repeated addition songs, and using new fact fluency to apply to word problems.
In Reading, we will be reading Jane’s Discovery and Finding Lincoln. The comprehension strategy we will focus on visualizing and asking and answering questions, and our skill will be Cause and Effect. The vocabulary focus will be on using context clues to help us understand new words and recognizing figurative language.
Homework:
It’s easy! 20 minutes of reading every night and Reflex. Please make sure that your child gets a green light in Reflex AT LEAST 3 times during the week. I have realized that the Reflex app for phones is not available right now. I’m hoping it will be back soon, and when it is I will make sure to let you all know. If doing Reflex at home is not possible at times, please send me an email or Bloomz message so that I can arrange for your child to have an opportunity to get it completed at school.
Work hard. Be kind.
A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark
-Chinese Proverb
Important Dates:
10/1: STEM Lab
10/2:
10/3:
10/4: Library, don’t forget to bring your books!
10/5: Spirit Day, Early Release
Classroom Information:
I will not be at school on Thursday or Friday of this week. I am going on a quick trip to Texas to see family before my husband leaves on a deployment. However, the amazing Mrs. Jennifer Wirt will be filling in for me. She is very capable and will not skip a beat. Even though I’ll be gone, please do not hesitate to contact me through email or BLOOMZ if you need anything at all.
Next, I will soon be contacting anyone who signed up to help with the Halloween Party through BLOOMZ. A sub-group will be created so that planning for the party can take place. If you did not sign up to help, but would like to, please contact me and let me know so that I can add you to the group. Halloween at Quest is such a fun day!
Apple Witches:
Apple Witches are coming along nicely. It’s fun to see the kids come in and check on their apples every morning and listen to their comments about how “weird,” “ugly,” or “creepy” they are turning out to be. Please be on the lookout for a letter coming home on Monday about the next phase of the Apple Witch creation.
Coming This Week:
This week in Math we get to connect Multiplication and Division! We will be studying the relationship between the two operations. This will include creating fact families, dice games, and some hands on activities.
In Reading, we will move on to Week 4 of Unit 1. We will be reading Mary Anderson’s Great Invention and All Aboard! Elijah McCoy’s Steam Engine. The comprehension strategy we will focus on asking and answering questions, and our skill will be Cause and Effect. The vocabulary focus will be on using context clues to help us understand new words and recognizing figurative language.
Homework:
It’s easy! 20 minutes of reading every night and Reflex. Please make sure that your child gets a green light in Reflex AT LEAST 3 times during the week. If you are on the go during the week like my family is, there is a Reflex app that can be downloaded to a phone or tablet so that students can get their green light on the way to and in between evening activities. If doing Reflex at home is not possible at times, please send me an email or Bloomz message so that I can arrange for your child to have an opportunity to get it completed at school.
Work hard. Be kind.
The FUTURE of the world is in my classroom TODAY
-Ivan Welton Fitzwater
Important Dates:
9/24: STEM Lab
9/25: Take a peek at www.scholastic.com to order great books for home. Class Code: TMN4M
9/26:
9/27: Library
9/28: Dollar Dress Down Day, Early Release
Thank You:
I wanted to say a quick THANKS to everyone who sent apples, peelers, teaspoons and to everyone who came to help us carve our apple witches. The kids had a bunch of fun with this activity and they are all curious about how their apples will change over the next few weeks.
Coming This Week:
In Math, It is DIVISION! This week we are going to learn how to start with a total and make equal groups to represent dividing numbers.
In Reading, we will move on to Week 3 of Unit 1. We will be reading Room to Grow and Gary The Dreamer. The comprehension strategy we will focus on asking and answering questions, referring to text for information and our skill will be identifying Characters, Setting, and Plot. The vocabulary focus will be on using context clues to help us understand new words.
Homework:
It’s easy! 20 minutes of reading every night. Our Reflex issues have been addressed, so students are required to get a green light in Reflex AT LEAST 3 times per week. If you are on the go during the week like my family is, there is a Reflex app that can be downloaded to a phone or tablet so that students can get their green light on the way to and in between evening activities.
Work hard. Be kind.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
-Leonardo DaVinci
Important Dates:9/17: STEM Lab9/18: Take a peek at www.scholastic.com to order great books for home. Class Code: TMN4M9/19: 9/20: Library, apples for Apple Witches due9/21: Apple Witch carving day, Spirit Day, Early Release
Apple Witch Time:
3rd grade has a tradition of carving and dressing apple witches each fall. It is a super fun project that we will connect with a writing activity. Apple witches will be carved in September and set out dry until we dress them in October, just in time for Halloween. We will be carving our apple witches on Friday morning. I need every student to bring one medium sized apple (we will not be eating them) by Thursday September 20th. The apple needs to be medium size, too big and it will rot, too small and the face won’t be visible.
In order to do this, I need several parent volunteers who would be willing to come into our class on Friday, September 21st at 10:00 and help with this project for an hour or so. We will need 8 parent volunteers, 1/8 teaspoons (at least 10), and apple peelers (at least 8). If you have any of these items but cannot attend, please send them with your child, and I will make sure that they get back to you.
I have created a sign-up on BLOOMZ for you to sign up to help and bring supplies
Later, I will also need a few parent volunteers to sew (at home) extra witch costumes (very easy sewing). If you would like to volunteer, you may let me know on BLOOMZ, email, or comment on this post.
Coming This Week:
In Math, Multiplication continues! It is so awesome to see the light come on in the students’ eyes as they are grasping concepts. This week we are going to learn how to break groups apart as a strategy for multiplying larger numbers.
In Reading, we will move on to Week 2 of Unit 1. We will be reading The Dream Catcher and Yoon and the Jade Bracelet. The comprehension strategy we will focus on is Visualization and our skill will be identifying Characters, Setting, and Plot. The vocabulary focus will be on using context clues to help us understand new words.Homework:It’s easy! 20 minutes of reading every night. Our Reflex reports are having some issues, so we will be doing Reflex at school this week so we can figure out what is happening with our reports.Work hard. Be kind.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
-Aristotle
Important Dates:9/10: STEM Lab
ALL FUNDRAISER ORDERS DUE9/11: Take a peek at www.scholastic.com to order great books for home.9/12: Dibels assessment9/13: Dibels assessment, Library9/14: Spirit Day, Early Release
Helpful Information:
A Scholastic Book order form went home with your child last week. All orders will be submitted on September 30th. Anyone who is interested in ordering books may do so by filling out the order form and returning it to school, or by going to the Scholastic website. If you choose to order online, please use our class code: TMN4M
Using this code helps our class earn free books to add to our classroom library!
Coming This Week:
In Math, we will continue to work on understanding the concepts of Multiplication. This weeks’ lessons are directed at using order and grouping to understand how to multiply.
We have finished our Wonders Start Smart program and we’re moving on to Unit 1 Week 1. We will be reading
Bruno’s Home and
Wolf. The comprehension strategy we will focus on is Visualization and our skill will be identifying Characters, Setting, and Plot. The vocabulary focus will be on using context clues to help us understand new words.
Homework:It’s easy! 20 minutes of reading every night and Reflex Math AT LEAST 3 times during the week.
Thanks for a wonderful first few weeks of school!
Work hard. Be kind.
REFLEX
Yesterday, everyone was able to have the chance to get onto Reflex, log on, and complete a session. Now that everyone is familiar with how to access our class, it is time for Reflex to become Math homework. Remember, students should complete Reflex AT LEAST 3 nights per week (since they did it in class yesterday, they only need 2 more nights this week). Students need to work until they have received their “green light”. You’ll know that they have completed a session when the small circle in the upper right corner of the screen has a green outline and center. If students stop before earning a “green light,” the session does not count.
Instructions to Log-on to Reflex:
1. Go to student links on the Quest webpage, click on Reflex.
If the link does not work go to: www.reflexmath.com
2. Teacher user name is: alexander3
3. Choose our class, then choose your name
4. Students will need to then enter their password (they all know it)
Thanks for helping your child at home to be successful at school!
Work hard. Be kind.
