We are selling
Cookie Dough to help fund awesome things for our awesome students! Proceeds from the cookie dough will help to fund school activities like clubs, sports, field day, field trips, library books, and more.
Here are some things to know:
The fundraiser sale begins
TODAYOrders are due back by
Sept 18Make checks to
POQACookie dough orders will
arrive Oct 6 at the school
Online sales also count and they are an easy way to invite family and friends to place orders.
I hope everyone had a lovely, long Labor Day weekend! It was such a nice little break! We are now in our second week of the new reading/spelling program. All of the students in our class will be working with the same spelling pattern which is so nice!!! This week, we will be testing on the spelling pattern: short e, o, and u. I will post the spelling list under the homework tab, so you can have it at home if you would like to review with your child.
For math, we are moving on from rounding to the nearest ten. We will start rounding to the nearest hundred. This skill is very abstract and hard for the students to grasp right away. I will be using lots of hands on and fun games to help them master the skill.
Apple Witches:
We are starting to collect the pieces of our Apple Witches for Halloween. Every student needs to bring a medium-sized apple to school by Monday, September 11th. We are carving our apples on Thursday, September 14th from 2:00-3:00 in our classroom. I would love as many volunteers that can come and help us on this day. Also, we will need:
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. If your student will be absent this day we will create a witch for them to use when we dress our witches.
Reading:
Please remember to read every night for at least 20 minutes.
Math:
Prodigy for every night (M-Th) for 10-15 minutes. There is a Prodigy link on the right side bar of our blog.
Early Out Every Friday at 1:30!!!
Parents,
In class we created Prodigy accounts for those who were not connected to our class. Here is a list of the usernames and passwords.
We all survived our first full week of school! 😉 I am excited for this year and I am loving this group of kids. So, now we are getting into the full swing of things. Homework starts this week!!
MATH
- We finished place value last week and this week we will move onto rounding for the next two weeks. Please have your students working on Prodigy for 10 minutes a night (Monday – Thursday). The Prodigy homework will be on rounding and there will be 5 problems a night.
- Please make sure that your child links their Prodigy account to mine (my class code: DD4802), or that they create their Prodigy account. We will be logging into Prodigy tomorrow and things will go a lot smoother if your child already has an account. We will create new accounts for all students who do not have an account linked to mine tomorrow.
READING
- Please read every night for 20 minutes. We have been going over character traits in class and we will do a quick write on the characters that your child has read about at home.
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Just a reminder that tomorrow (Friday) is a dollar dress down and and a short day. Dress down clothing must follow the Quest Academy dress down guideline.
Thanks!!!
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!!!
Parents,
I am changing the Back To School presentation times. Instead of every 20 minutes I will be presenting every 30 minutes. Sorry for the confusion!
Thanks,
Ms. Beckstead
Welcome to 3rd Grade! I am so excited to get ready for the new school year. I am really looking forward to meeting all of you. This is going to be a fabulous year. Here are a few announcements just to get us started. All announcements from here on out will be available on our class blog, or on the Bloomz app. Please sign up for both of them. I use both of these communication tools often. Make sure that you are in the loop!!
- To subscribe to the blog, enter your email address on the side of the page where it says, “Click Here to Subscribe to Our Class Blog!” You will be taken to another page when you click on the subscribe button. Please enter your email address again and hit the subscribe button.
- To sign-up for Bloomz-
- New to Bloomz
- 1. Download the “Bloomz” app from the AppStore/PlayStore and click “Create Account”. If browser, go to bloomz.com and click on “Join Bloomz”
- 2. In the text box, enter GMPBGN
- 3. Create your account
- Existing Bloomz Account
- 1. Log into your Bloomz account
- 2. Click “+Add Class/Group” on the left navigation.
- 3. In the test box, enter GMPBGN
- 4. Click next
- …Or join using text messaging instead, text @GMPBGN to 1-858-BLOOMZ1 (1-858-256-6691) to receive 1-way text messages from me.
Remember Back To School Night is Monday, August 14 from 5:30 to 7:30. I will be doing a presentation every 20 minutes starting at 5:30 and ending at 7:30. If there is a session already started when you get to class, please wait for the next one. I am excited to see all of you!
