"iReady Testing Results: We will be sending home the iReady Parent Reports in Thursday Folders on January 6th as we need to wait until the testing window has closed before we can communicate final scores. These are a mid-year check for us as a school, and us as teachers to help guide our instructional planning. You do not need to do anything with these reports, but we just want to be transparent when a student takes a test how they perform on that one indicator. This is not a grade but just a check point. Continuous Achievement Update Over the next 3 weeks our Curriculum Support Teacher, Diana Zarzour, will be screening every student in the school to ensure they are in the most appropriate placement. She will be reviewing a variety of data points on every child to determine if any adjusts need to be made to continuous achievement levels for Math and Reading/Writing. As a parent- there is nothing you need to do! She will contact you directly if your child is recommended to move placement levels or needs to have a class change due to a teacher change in levels taught the week of Dec. 13th. If you have any questions about this please contact her directly at [email protected] " Please make sure your child is charging their computer EVERY NIGHT. We are using them for multiple subjects each day and it must be fully charged. Important Dates: December 16th: Holiday Party December 16th: Living Museum 8:00 am in Cafe December 17th: Last Day of School December 20-Jan 4th: Winter Break Assessment Dates: December 13/14th: Iready Math Diagnostic December 14th: Reading Retake December 15th: On-Level Math Retake Homework Reminder: Please remember to check your child's agenda daily for homework. Every 3rd grade student has math homework each night. It can be a paper assignment or assigned Iready lessons. Your child should have written it in their agenda. Please reach out to your child's math teacher with any questions regarding homework. It is New Prospect's policy for reading and math homework each night. Remember to have your child reading 15 minutes each night! After they read, great questions to ask them to support skills we are working on in class are: -What is the main idea? -What are some key details that support the main idea? -Can you tell me 3 facts about your book? Student Success Skill: STOP Before you Say It! Students will learn that words have consequences and choose kind words. Writing: We have finished our informational books on our expert topics. Who knew 3rd grade had so many experts on such a variety of topics. This week we will finish up our on demand explorer writing and present to you on Thursday! Reading: Last week we took our unit 3 assessment. We will be having our retake on Tuesday. When we come back from winter break we will begin our unit on Character Studies. Math: Be sure to check out each math page for more details about current units. On-Level: We will be taking the IREADY Math Diagnostic on Monday and Tuesday. Our unit retake will be on Wednesday. Advanced: . This week we worked on comparing numbers using greater than, less than, and equal to. Next week we take the IREADY Math Diagnostic on Monday and Tuesday. Acc Math: We will be taking the IREADY Math Diagnostic on Monday and Tuesday. Social Studies: This week finished up learning about European Explorers. We began working on our projects for our Living Museum. Please join us Thursday at 8:00 am in the cafe! 0 Comments3rd Grade Happenings...
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FCS TECHNOLOGY COMPETITION Hi parents of 3rd-5th grade students! If your student is planning to enter a project in this year’s technology competition, the deadline to register your student is December 4th at 11:59pm. All student projects and materials must then be submitted by December 16th at 11:59pm. Information and timeline for registration and submitting projects is located here: https://www.fultonschools.org/techcompetition Good luck to all of our Panthers who have worked on projects… we are so proud of you!! If you have questions please reach out to Sandi Dennis: [email protected] Please make sure your child is charging their computer EVERY NIGHT. We are using them for multiple subjects each day and it must be fully charged. Important Dates: December 6-10th: Week of Code December 6-10th: Holiday Shop December 11th: Hands On New Prospect December 16th: Living Museum 8:00 am in Cafe December 17th: Last Day of School December 20-Jan 4th: Winter Break Assessment Dates: December 7th: ELA Unit 3 Assessment December 10th: On-Level Math Unit 3 Assessment December 10th: ACC Math Unit 4 Assessment Homework Reminder: Please remember to check your child's agenda daily for homework. Every 3rd grade student has math homework each night. It can be a paper assignment or assigned Iready lessons. Your child should have written it in their agenda. Please reach out to your child's math teacher with any questions regarding homework. It is New Prospect's policy for reading and math homework each night. Remember to have your child reading 15 minutes each night! After they read, great questions to ask them to support skills we are working on in class are: -What is the main idea? -What are some key details that support the main idea? -Can you tell me 3 facts about your book? Student Success Skill: Keep Calm! Students will practice strategies to pause and calm themselves. Writing: We are in the process of publishing our 1st informational book. We will finish up next Wednesday and then begin our writing about our European Explorer. Reading: This week we learned about the 5 different text structures of non fiction texts. We are learning to identify what type of structure the author uses to present the information. They are cause/effect, compare/contrast, problem/solution, sequence, and description. Next week we will take our unit 3 assessment. Please make sure your child brings back their study guide on Monday so we can review in class. Math: Be sure to check out each math page for more details about current units. On-Level: We continued working on area using the distributive property. Next week we will review and take our Unit 3 assessment on Friday. Advanced: We spent this week working on place value and multiplying by 10s, 100s, and 1000s. Next week we will be comparing numbers using greater than, less than, and equal to. We will have a quiz on Friday. Acc Math: This week we added and subtracted with mixed numbers and worked multiplying fractions by a whole number. Next week we review for our assessment on Friday. Social Studies: This week we began learning about different European explorers and their voyage goals and accomplishments. Next week we will wrap up our unit and begin working on our project. Our "living museum" will be December 16th at 8:00 am in the cafe. We hope you can join us! |