Important Dates:
Monday Sept. 23 – Understanding Multiplication Review and Quiz and Coding Class @ 8:40
Tuesday Sept. 24 – 
Wednesday Sept. 25 – Library @ 8:40 and STEM @ 1:30
Thursday Sept. 26 – 
Friday Sept. 27 – Dollar Dress Down Day; 
                               Early Release, 1:00 dismissal

Apple Witch carving was a success and the kids had so much fun! Thanks to everyone who sent apples, tools, and volunteered their time. You all make our class so amazing!

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES:
***If you’d like to earn volunteer hours but do not have the opportunity to be at the school, hours can be accumulated by making a donation to your child’s classroom or to the school. 1 hour is credited to you for each $5 donation/purchase. If you would like to help out our class, I am currently working to stock our class store. If you would like to purchase items to put into our store, I would be very appreciative. Please bring me a receipt and I will log and credit your volunteer hours. 

Announcements
***If you have not paid for your student’s supply donation, you may do so at the front office or you may call the school 801-731-9859
***This donation covers all of the supplies that your child is using in class, as well as maintaining a supply of pencils, lead, tissues, paper towels, hand sanitizer, art supplies, adding to the classroom library, etc…
***THANK YOU SO MUCH to those of you who have contributed to our class

***If you have not subscribed to BLOOMZ, please do so as soon as possible! Our class code is BXD9TX**

Math
In lesson 5 we will continue to develop our understanding of multiplication. Along with using our multiplication strategies, we are going to be learning about the properties of multiplying by 0, 1, 2, 5 & 10.


















Reading:
This week our comprehension strategy is Asking & Answering Questions.  The expository stories we are reading this week are “A Natural Beauty” and “A Mountain of History”. While reading, we are going to be identifying Main Idea and Key Details.

Phonics:
Long o:  o, ow, o_e, oa, oe

Vocabulary:
carved  –  landmark  –  clues  –  grand  –  massive  –  monument  –  national  –  traces

In class, we learn about these vocabulary words in connection to ourselves. If you notice your child using any of these words in context, this would be a great opportunity to celebrate their efforts!

SEPTEMBER POEMS
Each month students are required to memorize at least one poem.  Below are the month’s poems.  We only read through these in class once, so they need to be practiced at home.  Students can pass off poems on Fridays whenever they are ready to recite them.  


OPTIONAL –  yet HIGHLY encouraged by Mrs. Sampson – REVIEW

• Read at least 20 minutes per day. Making sure that your child does his/her reading daily is the single most helpful thing you can do to support educational success.

• REFLEX- at least 3 green lights per week!
• There is a link to Reflex on the right hand side of the blog. The username is: Sampson3 and students will use their own network password to log in.

Important Dates:
Monday Sept. 16 – Coding and DIBELS Testing continued
Tuesday Sept. 17 – 
Wednesday Sept. 18 –  Library and STEM
Thursday Sept. 19 – 
Friday Sept. 20 – Spirit Day; Early Release, 1:00 dismissal
                               Apple Witch Carving @ 9:00

Announcements

• If you have not donated for your student’s supply donation, you may do so at the front office or you may call the school 801-731-9859
• This donation covers all of the supplies that your child is using in class, as well as maintaining a supply of pencils, lead, tissues, paper towels, hand sanitizer, art supplies, adding to the classroom library, etc…
• THANK YOU SO MUCH to those of you who have contributed to our class! 

***If you have not subscribed to BLOOMZ, please do so as soon as possible!***

Math
We have finished Unit 1 in Math! So far we have covered Rounding, 3-digit Addition with and without regrouping, and 3-digit Subtraction with and without regrouping. We will be reviewing this material and taking a Unit assessment this week, then moving on to Unit 2. Unit 2 starts with an Introduction to Multiplication! We’ll start off by developing an understanding of what it means to multiply and different ways to represent multiplication visually.



















Reading:
This week our comprehension strategy is Asking & Answering Questions.  The stories we are reading this week are “Mary Anderson’s Great Adventure” and “All Aboard! Elijah McCoy’s Steam Engine”. While reading, we are going to be paying close attention to text structure as well as cause and effect of events.

Phonics:
Long a:  ay, ai, a_e, ea, eigh, ei, ey 

Vocabulary:
designed  –  encouraged  –  examine  –  investigation  –  quality  –  solution  –  simple  –  substitute

In class, we learn about these vocabulary words in connection to ourselves. If you notice your child using any of these words in context, this would be a great opportunity to celebrate their efforts!

Optional –  yet HIGHLY encouraged by Mrs. Sampson – Review

• Read at least 20 minutes per day. Making sure that your child does his/her reading daily is the single most helpful thing you can do to support educational success.

• REFLEX- at least 3 green lights per week!
• There is a link to Reflex on the right hand side of the blog. The username is: Sampson3 and students will use their own network password to log in.

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 this month and set out dry until we dress them in October, just in time for Halloween. We will be carving our apple witches on Friday, September, 20th.  I need every student to bring one medium sized apple (we will not be eating them) by Thursday September 19th. The apple needs to be medium size! If it is too big 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 20th at 9:00 and help with this project for an hour or so. We will need at least 8 parent volunteers, but the more the merrier! We also need at least 10 1/8 teaspoons (the metal ones work best), and 10+ apple peelers (again, metal ones are best). If anyone has a cranking apple peeler they are willing to bring, they are excellent for this project! 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 that will be posted today for you to sign up to volunteer to help and bring supplies.

Later, I will also need a few parent volunteers to sew extra witch costumes (very easy sewing) and a few to construct the hair.  These can both be done at home.  If you would like to volunteer, you may let me know on BLOOMZ or email

 I can’t believe that tomorrow is the last day of school. Just a reminder that you do not need to send backpacks with your child. If you noticed we sent A LOT of stuff home with the kiddos and we aren’t sending anything else home, so NO BACKPACKS! 

I just wanted to say thank you again. This year has been an absolute blast, and I am so sad to see that it’s ending. Thank you for all your love and support throughout this year. Thank you for all the sweet presents for Christmas, the end of the year, Valentines Day, and so many other holidays. I have been so blessed to get to know you and your awesome kids. Thank you will never be enough. Have a great summer, and I love you all. 

Mrs. Sampson

P.S prepare yourself to see a very emotional Mrs. Sampson tomorrow. Running to the store to get waterproof mascara;)

We are down to 6 days left of school everyone!! I just wanted to posted our schedule for the rest of the school year along with some reminders so that there is hopefully no confusion for how the rest of the school year will look like! 

Wednesday: Normal Day 
Thursday: Normal Day 
Friday: Talent Show and EARLY OUT, and dollar dress down. 

NEXT WEEK: May 27-31
Monday: NO SCHOOL 
Tuesday: Pancake Party, EARLY OUT, and free dress down! (eating pancakes, and celebrating the end of school)
Wednesday: Clean our classroom EARLY OUT, and free dress down! 
Thursday: Last Day of School EARLY OUT, and free dress down! (signing yearbooks)

Reminders: 
We will be sending home a lot of stuff this week. Workbooks that they have worked on throughout the year, art projects, etc so PLEASE make sure to send your child with a backpack every single day! Also please be sure to send their folder everyday because we are collecting their Baggie Books, and their sight word rings. 
With all this being said please make sure to continue to send your child to school these last few days. I know that testing is over but we still have things to send home. (Plus I still want to see their cute faces)

If you have any questions please feel free to email me, or stop in and chat. This year has been an absolute blast. Thank you will never be enough for all your support, and loving words. Thank you for letting me be their teacher! I love you all!

Mrs. Sampson

Just a reminder about our Kindergarten Graduation tomorrow. Remember it will only be the last hour of school, so for the AM class it will go from 9:30-10:30 and for the PM class it will go from 12:30-1:30. Please have your students wear normal uniform attire. Tomorrow is NOT the last day of school. I have been getting a lot of questions about it and kindergarten will still have regular school until May 30th. Thank you for all you do, and have done this year. If there are any further questions please feel free to let me know! This will be so exciting!!

Mrs. Sampson