Important Dates:
Monday Sept. 30 – Library
Wednesday Oct. 2 –  STEM
Thursday Oct. 3 – Coding
Friday Oct. 4 – Spirit Day;
                            Early Release, 1:00 dismissal
Tuesday Oct. 15- Chick-fil-A spirit night (information at the end of the blog)
October 16, 17, 18- FALL BREAK: NO SCHOOL!

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES:
I need help leveling our class library, you can come in anytime during the day to work on this!

***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, please let me know.  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

Math
In lesson 6 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 3, 4, &6.















Reading:
This week we start Unit 2 in Wonders! Our comprehension strategy is Making, Revising and Confirming Predictions.  The expository stories we are reading this week are “Anansi Learns a Lesson,” “Roadrunner’s Dance” and “Deltona is Going Batty.” While reading, we are going to be using details in the text to determine the theme of the story.

Phonics:
Long i:  i, ie, igh, y, 
Long u: u, u_e, ew

Vocabulary:
cooperation  –  attempt  –  awkward  –  created  –  furiously  –  interfere  –  involved  –  timid

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!

OCTOBER 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.  

• 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.
• Spirit Night at Chick-Fil-A:

 

                
Important Dates:
Monday Sept. 23 – Library
Wednesday Sept. 25 –  Isabella’s Birthday!!!  STEM
Thursday Sept. 26 – Coding Class
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:
***In Class: I am in need of someone to come into class, at a time that is convenient for you, and help me put the Lexile levels on the books in my classroom library. This is not difficult, just takes some time. Anyone who is willing can come and spend as much or as little time as you’d like working on this.
***Next, 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 out the third grade, we currently need cheesecloth for an art project, contact me on Bloomz for more info.

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

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!

Remember to 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!

We do not have any volunteers to come in and help with apple witches, if this doesn’t change in the next couple days we will have to cancel this project.  You can sign up to help on the bloomz app.

Important Dates:
Monday Sept. 16 – Library
Wednesday Sept. 18 –  STEM
Thursday Sept. 19 – Coding Class
Friday Sept. 20 – Spirit Day; Early Release, 1:00 dismissal
                               **Apple Witch Carving @ 9:00

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 XRCRTB***

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!

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. Brown – 

• 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.

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 label them and 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 on WEDNESDAY 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.

Important Dates:
Monday Sept. 9 – Library
Wednesday Sept. 11 –  STEM
Thursday Sept. 12 – Coding
Friday Sept. 13 – Spirit Day; Early Release, 1:00 dismissal
                               Fundraising forms and money DUE TODAY!!!

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! 
• I am hoping to get our class store started in the next few weeks. If you signed up to volunteer for our store, I will be sending a Bloomz message soon. If you did not sign up, but would like to help send me a message or email!

QUEST ACADEMY ANNUAL FUNDRAISER: 
This year our fundraiser is through a partnership with Denik and Schools Building Schools. We are selling a variety of notebooks, journals, sketchbooks and prints with artwork from artists around the world. Please support Quest by helping your child sell some items in the catalog. 

• A few important details about this fundraiser:
• Fundraising forms are due THIS Friday, September 13th
• Cash and checks are accepted. Make Checks payable to Quest Academy
• A link is being established for online orders. I will send this out as soon as it is available.
• Watch this video for more information about the fundraiser:“https://youtu.be/TyLLDwXPOPk”> 

Math
This week in Math we will be subtracting with 3-digit numbers. As we move on, we are continuing to spiral our review of 3-digit addition and rounding to the nearest 10 and 100. The Family Letter is below for information and a fun at-home activity.
















Reading:
This week our comprehension strategy is Asking & Answering Questions.  The stories we are reading this week are “Room to Grow” and “Gary the Dreamer”. While reading, we are going to be paying close attention to text structure and the sequencing of events in a story.

Phonics:
i_e :  five, time 
u_e: cube, fume

Vocabulary:
 admires  –  classmate   –  community   – contribute  
 practicing  –   pronounce – tumbled

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!

At Home:

• 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: alexander3 and students will use their own network password to log in.

Important Dates:
Monday Sept. 2 – Labor Day, NO SCHOOL
Wednesday Sept. 4 –  STEM
Thursday Sept. 5 – Coding Class 
Friday Sept. 6 – Spirit Day; Early Release, 1:00 dismissal
                             Accadiance (DIBELS) benchmarking will begin for our class. Please                                 send your child to school rested!
Friday Sept. 13- Fundraising forms and money due!

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
• Please subscribe to this blog. It is my primary form of communication to you!

QUEST ACADEMY ANNUAL FUNDRAISER: 
This year our fundraiser is through a partnership with Denik and Schools Building Schools. We are selling a variety of notebooks, journals, sketchbooks and prints with artwork from artists around the world. Please support Quest by helping your child sell some items in the catalog. 

• A few important details about this fundraiser:

• Fundraising forms are due Friday, September 13th
• Cash and checks are accepted. Make Checks payable to Quest Academy
• A link is being established for online orders. I will send this out as soon as it is available.

• Watch this video for more information about the fundraiser:“https://youtube/TyLLDwXPOPk”> 

***If you have not subscribed to BLOOMZ, please do so as soon as possible! Our class code is QMZ7G2***

Math
3rd grade math is serious business! I believe the class was a little surprised about the amount of math that was covered last week when we learned to round to the nearest ten and hundred. But, they worked hard and learned so much. Rounding is a tough skill that we will continue to spiral around we progress through the year. This week, we are learning about 3-digit addition. We will address this with base-ten models, a number of various strategies, and then connect the strategies to the mathematical algorithm. The Family Letter is below for information and a fun at-home activity.















Reading:
This week we start our Wonders reading program. Our stories are “The Dream Catcher” and “Yoon and the Jade Bracelet”. We are continuing our focus on using Visualization as a comprehension strategy. By using this strategy, we should be able to create our own image of what is happening in a story. We will also be learning about the characters, setting and plot within a story. 

Phonics:
/e/  : egg, elephant 
ou   : out, proud

Vocabulary:
 celebrate  – courage    –  disappointment    – precious   
 pride   –    remind –  symbol –  tradition

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!

Homework:

• 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.

• Students will be learning to log on to Reflex this week during class, so weekly Reflex homework will begin next week.