Mrs. Rojas 3rd Grade Superheroes 2019-20: August 2019

Well, we have done it again!! This time we made a full week of school! We are continuing to get to know each other, made some arrays, took our 1st quiz, and had a fun dance to end the week! Whew! It was packed. Next week, we hope to get into the full flow of the content. The students were excited to use Chromebooks and to know they have their own while at school, but ........... there was a technical outage and it was during our computer time. Students are only allowed to get onto their chromebooks after the initial orientation with Mrs. Black, our TLC.

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Please, please, please, if you have not had the chance to get the 4 marble composition notebooks, please try to get them over the weekend. It is so much easier for them to keep up with their notes in the notebook instead of using loose leaf notebook paper. I have held off but we will be going full swing on Tuesday when we come back to school.

News to Know

Reading

We will work on the skill of questioning and prefixes/suffixes as well as continue to focus on text features. The story they will be testing on will be First Day Jitters on Friday, September 6th. The vocabulary for the story is attached here: First Day Jitters Vocabulary Prefixes/Suffixes will continue for at least 4 or 5 weeks but students will be responsible for a different set each week. This week it will be un-, in-, non-, and dis-. We will also start working on complete and incomplete sentences.

Math

In math, we just finished our first quiz on lessons 1-3. On Thursday (September 5th), they will take a quiz on lessons 4-6 and on Wednesday (September 11th), they will be taking a quiz on the math vocabulary. I will send the Quizlet for it next week. Some great resources will be Khan Academy (Eureka Math) and Zearn. We will go over those in more depth during our conferences.

Science

In science, we will continue to work on the grasslands. terms they will need to become familiar with include adaptations, producer, consumer, herbivore, omnivore, carnivore, and decomposer - related to grasslands.

Social Studies

We will finish our review of South Carolina and be prepared for a quiz on Friday, September 6. They need to be familiar with the city, county, state, country, and continent they live on as well as know the 2 states and ocean that border South Carolina. this Quizlet can help prepare for the quiz plus everything they will be quizzed and tested on will be in their notebook.

Calendar

September

Monday, September 2nd No School

Thursday, September 5th Orientation Night (5:30-6:15 or 6:30-7:15)

Monday, September 9th Reading MAP

Tuesday, September 10th Math MAP

Friday, September 13th Family Fun Night (Lower Campus, 4:30-7:30)

September 16th-20th Book Fair

Friday, September 27th 1/2 Day, 11:30 Dismissal

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Community News

LCE Spirit Wear Sale

The Lake Carolina Spirit Wear Sale has begun! This year you have two ways to order:
1. Fill out and send in the paper order form that was sent home with your child on last week
2. Order your online at https://lce2019.itemorder.com/sale

Please forward this email to any family or friends you think would like to help support LCE and show their school spirit.

The sale will only be open for two weeks so don’t wait. Order TODAY. Once the sale ends, you will NOT be able to order again this year.

Thank you for your support and GO GATORS!

LCE PTO

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School Club Information

School Club information for lower and upper campus will be posted on Tuesday, September 3 in The Communigator. If your child is interested in joining an after school club this school year, please have them complete/return the club application by Friday, September 13. No late applications will be accepted.

We have had an awesome week this week!! Of course we have spent a lot of time working on procedures and getting to know you activities. They also worked on school expectations as we continue to build our community to be strong and positive.

Today, we did a little of the curriculum in math but we will be full steam ahead next week. On Fridays, your child will bring home a green communication folder. there are 2 sides to it - a keep at home side and a bring back to school side. If it is on the bring back to school side, please send it back with the folder on the following Monday. In their agenda book, you will see RF60M today, which means they just need to read 60 minutes over the weekend. It does not have to be in 1 sitting. They can do 20 a day.

Also, remember snacks and a sweater or light jacket for your child. Sometimes the room can get a little chilly. If you haven't sent a picture of your child in for our bulletin board, please send that as well. It will be returned at the end of the year.

If you have any questions, please do hesitate to reach out to me. Have a wonderful, relaxing weekend!! I'm looking forward to seeing everyone bright-eyed and bushy tailed on Monday.

Reminders:

1) Please remember to send a snack with your child daily.
2) Send in a light jacket or sweater with your child

3) Check green Parent Communication folders and return on Monday.
4) Please be sure to get your child's 4 composition notebooks over the weekend, if possible. If that is not possible, please send me an email.

5) Please go to my blog address (below) and sign up for automatic updates so you don't miss any news or pictures. This will be where future information about our class will be.

6) I will also be using Class Dojo for behavior. I only want to preferably use this for the 1st quarter, so that we can get back into the school routine. Look for an email from me this weekend in reference to signing up.

Curriculum News

Math - Module 1 (Lessons 1-5)

Quiz on Thursday

Math 4 Today

This will be part of our morning work routine. On Fridays, we will have an assessment on what we worked on Monday through Thursday. The first few weeks will not count as a grade.

Reading - Nonfiction, Text Features

Science - Grasslands

Social Studies - Geography/Map Skills

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