August 21st-25th

I hope you all had a wonderful first week of school! We have such an adorable class! I am so excited to see what wonderful things this year will bring!!!

For your information, I will try and post our weekly classroom post on Sunday nights. Make sure you subscribe to the class blog, so you are emailed when I post to the blog. That will be a nice reminder for you, but you can expect to get it on Sunday evenings.

Math Homework:
For homework, the students need to get on www.prodigygame.com and set up their Prodigy account. I need each student/parent to use the class code:DD4802 to add to “Miss Beckstead’s Class 17-18”. That way, if you already have an account, I can see your login and password. If you are new to Prodigy, don’t stress. I will do an overview on Monday at school. I would love the students to explore and spend some time in Prodigy this week (10 minutes a night). I will not assign problems to the students this week, but next week we will start with assignments.

Reading:
Please make sure your child is reading 20 minutes each night. Get them in the habit. Starting next week, we will start making connections to what we read at home to what we are doing at school.

This Week:
*The Solar Eclipse is happening on Monday, August 21st, and our whole morning is going to be devoted to learning and watching it. We have purchased solar glasses for all the third grade students that they will get to keep after we finish using them. This will be such a cool and fun activity that happens every 100 years!!
*School Picture Day is also on Monday, August 21st. I sent a form home last week if you are interested in purchasing them. You can also purchase them online later if you love them after you see the proofs.
*We are learning Place Value in math this week, and we will be using food (saltines, pretzel sticks, and chocolate chips) for manipulatives with this skill. Please check the blog post from last week with the food permission slip, and fill out the Google Form ASAP.
Thanks so much!
**DON’T FORGET we have early out @ 1:30 every Friday this year!!!