3rd Grade Newsletter

• Parent Teacher Conferences are continuing through the beginning of November! Make sure you've checked your email and know when your time is!
• November 11th: Veteran's Day Virtual Assembly (see your OLS for the link)
• November 23rd-December 1st: Thanksgiving Break, no school
• December 6th: Winter SnowBLAST Outings
• December 9th-13th: Mid Year STAR Assessments
• December 13th: Explore OK Outing
• December 19th: Last day of 1st Semester/2nd Quarter, grades pulled at 5pm!
• December 20th-January 6th: Winter Break, no school
• January 3rd: 2nd Semester/3rd Quarter Begins!

Please ensure that you are logging in to the OLS everyday, Monday-Friday. Look over your plan to see what lessons need to be completed and view your daily class connect schedule. Regular class connect attendance and completing you coursework daily in the OLS are both extremely important in order to have a successful school year. Please make attending live class a priority and communicate with your teacher if you will be absent.

Please make sure you are checking your email at least twice a day in the messages tab of the OLS, preferably once in the morning and once in the afternoon. This will make sure that you get important info from your teacher, CFA, principal, etc as soon as possible. We will email you if classes need to be canceled, if you have an assignment to complete in another platform like Seesaw, and other important information. You can also reach out to your teacher this way if you have questions or need help.

There's a fun new game in the OLS! Work hard in your Math course and check it out!

Learning Coaches you have a course to complete Online School (OLS). We will talk more about this in class.

We will have Class Connect Sessions in Engagli this year! Info will be coming soon for tech support with Engagli.

As always, if you are experiencing an issue with the Online School or any K12 application, you can contact K12 Customer Support at (866) 512-2273 or visit Help.K12.com

This year in ELA, we will be working on:

• Main Idea
• Summarization
• Inferencing
• Writing
• & so much more!

We will be reading so many great stories and books in your classes and OLS lessons. Be sure to keep your curriculum materials in a safe and accessible place so you are ready to use them in class.

It is so important to get into the habit of reading for at least 30 minutes every single day! If you don't already do this, start today! Find books on Big Universe through the OLS or at your local library. Learning coaches, click here for some tips to help your 3rd grader with reading.

Some of the things we will focus on in math this year are:

• Multiplication
• Reading and writing numbers in different forms (standard, word, expanded, etc.)
• Solving real-world problems
• Fractions
• and so much more!

It will be essential to have a good foundation of fact fluency, so be sure to practice your addition, subtraction, and multiplication facts every day!

Dollar Tree stores are an economical place to find math flash cards.

Practice spelling number words, like zero through nineteen, twenty through ninety, hundred, thousand and million.

Helpful Math Links:

Printable flashcards

Online flashcards

Fact fluency game

Keep working hard in math!

• Class connect attendance is extremely important in addition to completing online coursework. Please prioritize attending class every day and email all applicable teachers if you know you are going to be absent. Communicate with your homeroom teacher asap about any scheduling conflicts once you have your class schedule.
• Create a family schedule to stay on track with all students' class connects.
• Come to class prepared. Be sure to eat, use the restroom, do chores, etc. before or after class connects. Log in to class a few minutes early with your materials to be ready to start on time.
• All assignments require 80% mastery in order to be marked complete. Click here to watch a video showing how to retake an assessment. If you run out of attempts, contact your homeroom teacher.
• Watch recordings of any missed class connects.
• Clear out browser cache, cookies, and history daily to ensure that your computer runs smoothly with Engagli. Shut down your computer each night.

Students can connect with their classmates and teachers in the Zone! Students can connect with others through video, chat function, and audio. Additionally, the K12 Zone offers many activities for students, such as chess games, tic-tac-toe, library access, scavenger hunts, access to Stride ESports, and much more.

The zone will be open daily at 8:30am and 2:00pm.

• The Oklahoma Virtual Charter Academy does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities and provides equal access educational programs and activities. As required by Title IX, the Oklahoma Virtual Charter Academy does not discriminate on the basis of gender, in its educational programs and activities.