Well, with our first week under our belts, we are ready to put into practice everything we’ve learned about our daily routine. Please be patient with your child this week as they experience third grade responsibilities and expectations in full swing. I will discuss many of these responsibilities and expectations at Arno’s Meet the Teacher Night on Thursday, September 12th. I look forward to seeing all of you there.
Also, if you haven’t already, please sign up for Remind. This is a messaging system that enables me to send class reminders, have private chats, and answer any questions you may have throughout the year. To connect to Remind, simply click here.
PBIS Expectations
Within the whirlwind of the first week of school, we discussed and practiced our PBIS (Positive Behavior Interventions and Support) expectations for the office, classroom, hallway, bathrooms, playground, and cafeteria. The students came up with many examples, as well as non-examples, of expected behavior at all of these locations. I am confident that students in Room 121 will continue to be respectful, responsible, and safe throughout the coming months. Students who continue with great behavior throughout the year will be rewarded weekly and monthly.
Math in Focus Chapter 1: Numbers to 10,000
Students have learned how to count, read, and write numbers up to 1,000 in Grade 2. In this chapter, students will learn how to count, read, and write numbers up to 10,000. Base-ten blocks are used to develop the association the physical representation of the number, the number symbol, and the number word. Base-ten blocks also support students in counting by ones, ten, hundreds, and thousands.
Students are shown concrete representations with place-value charts and strips showing thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones for numbers to 10,000. Given any 4-digit number, students will identify the place value of each digit in the number, and express the number in standard, word, and expanded forms. Students are encouraged to compare and verbally describe sets of numbers using the terms least and greatest. Using these skills, they will write numbers in increasing or decreasing order. Finally, students will apply the number and place-value concepts to identify and complete number patterns and find missing numbers on a number line.
Weekly Reading
Every Friday, your child should bring home their gold/yellow reading book (Catch A Sunflake) and a paper with ten questions. Your child will need to read the assigned story and answer the questions. This assignment is due back by Thursday the following week. Not only does this task encourage your child to read outside of the regular school day, but it also helps build fluency, decipher vocabulary, and enforce the use of comprehension strategies modeled in class.
English Language Arts
Every week your child will read an anchor text as well as a paired text. The anchor text is used to work on fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary skills and strategies. The paired text may be similar in theme and or genre. This text will reinforce vocabulary usage. Student understanding of the anchor text and vocabulary will be assessed on Fridays.
Students will also work on grammar and spelling throughout the week. Assigned spelling words will also be assessed on Fridays.
PTA Information
Membership
YEEEEE-HAWWW! It’s our Annual Membership Drive!
This year’s theme is “Western Roundup”! Each classroom will have Wanted Posters on display on the Big Bulletin Board in the Main Hallway. At the end of each week from now until the end of October we will add one Western Stamp for each PTA member that joins per classroom! There is also the option to donate extra money to the PTA to purchase an extra Western Stamp for your class “Wanted Poster”! As an additional incentive the PTA is offering the top three competing classes a prize!
The classes with the most Western Stamps (highest percentage of Western Stamps according to how many students are on class roster) at the end of October will receive a prize!
The PTA knows it takes a village and we need more involved parents! You don’t have to be a parent of a student to be a member (grandparents, aunts, uncles etc) are also eligible to become PTA Members too!
Register today at: http://arnopta.memberhub.store
1st Place- $100 in book fair dollars to shop with at the November Book Fair for the Teacher and “Wagon Wheel Party”!
2nd place – $50 in book fair dollars to shop with at the November book fair for the teacher and “Gold Nugget Party”!
3rd place – $25 in book fair dollars to shop with at the November book fair for the teacher and “Hay Bale Party”!
Fun Run
It’s that time of year when the PTA holds its major fundraiser…the Arno Fun Run! Don’t forget to register online for this great event.
We now accept credit card payments online in addition to cash and checks sent in to the school.
Register as a parent for our Fun Run. Click here to register!!!
Hard copies of the flyer will come home Monday.
We now accept credit card payments online in addition to cash and checks sent in to the school.
Register as a parent for our Fun Run. Click here to register!!!
(Hard copies of the flyer will come home Monday.)