News From Room 106

Families,

The students have continued to excel at adjusting to a new school! They have been working hard to master our classroom routines and rules to help make our room a great learning environment each day.

Homework: Students have been doing a great job at completing and turning in homework each day! As a reminder, we have math homework every night besides Fridays. The students should not be spending more than 15-20 minutes on it. Please let me know if your student is consistently spending more time on the math.

Caring Schools: As a reminder, students will be coming home with a new Caring Schools Family Worksheet each Friday for the first 2 months of school. These are optional! They are intended to help guide discussions at home about how school is going for your student!

Third Grade Field Trip: The entire third grade is taking our first field trip to NCG Greenville Movie Theater to see The Wild Robot on October 1st. We have all been reading and reviewing this book during read aloud. Permission slips are coming home today. Please try and have them returned by September 24th. For this field trip, we are only having the students and staff attend. Parents will be invited to join us on our Spring Field Trip. Students will not need to worry about packing a sack lunch as we will be back at Woodview for our regular lunch time.

Please feel free to call, email, or text any questions you may have.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Arends

Email: arendsk@bas-k12.org

Classroom Phone: 794-4756

Google Voice/Text: 616-236-3820

September:

9/9-9/13 Goal Week

9/10 Picture Day

9/11 Half Day Students

October:

10/1 Third Grade Field Trip to NCG Movie Theater, Greenville

This week's Spotlight Student is Brantley Vancamp! Brantley has done an excellent job in learning and following our classroom routines. He has shown great responsibility by turning in his homework and has demonstrated great respect by being a good friend to anyone in need of extra help!

Students have been doing an excellent job in learning about the basics of multiplication and division. Some strategies we have been learning include arrays, tape diagrams, and skip counting. Currently, we are learning about the Commutative Property and Distributive Property. Please remind your student to be practicing their skip counting by digits 2-5.

We have continued to study personal narrative texts. Our readings have helped us answer how people from different cultures help contribute to a community. The students have been focusing on the sequential order of events in our different pieces of text.

For grammar, we are working on identifying the subjects in sentences. We have been stressing the importance of capitalization to begin a sentence and punctuation to end a sentence! For spelling, we are working on the 'magic e' rule.

Accelerated Reader is now available for students to take tests. This week, we created goals. Students will be able to take AR while only at school. As a guardian, you can check if a book has an AR level and test by going to http://www.arbookfind.com/

Students have been learning about the different climates around the world. We will end our unit next week with studying potential hazardous weather and the impacts different weather can have on Earth's surface.

This week, students are reviewing skip counting as a strategy for multiplication and two and three digit addition. Next week, we will continue to review skip counting as a strategy for both multiplication and division, counting money, and two and three digit addition.

*We have noticed a large majority of our students struggle to correctly answer three digit addition problems. Students are forgetting to carry over the extra tens when regrouping is needed.

A Day to Believe this year is October 25.

ONLINE ORDERING NOW OPEN!

Click the link below to order your 2024 shirts! All orders placed by September 30th will be available for pickup in mid-October.

In addition to online ordering, shirts can be purchased at Varsity football games, and at BC Pizza in Belding during regular business hours.

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