Reading Reports I know your child has been reading a lot at home! This is an expectation for every child in 3rd

grade. Thanks for looking over their monthly “Reading Report”. September reports will be due

on Monday, October 1st. This is coming up quickly! 😊

Remember, completion of this is part of the reading grade! Students will also get to have their favorite book of the month displayed in our classroom and will be participating in “book talks”

over their book of the month! Don’t forget that the kids need to have a summary written about their favorite book of the month. The expectations for that summary are on the reading record

sheet and the rubric that can be found on the 3rd grade website (below). http://teachers.olatheschools.com/br3rdgrade/dive-into-reading-monthly-calendars/

Kindergarten Book Buddies

and Counselor

This year, 3rd graders have the opportunity to be the “big buddies” with kindergarteners for the first

time! They will work on various projects together and read many

stories.

The kids alternate weeks that they meet with buddies and with

our wonderful counselor, Mrs. Scott. She works closely with the kids on building social and emotional

skills as well as problem solving strategies.

Panther Packs

This is a time once a month when students meet with their school “family” consisting of one adult leader in the building and other students in grades K-5. These families remain the same from year to year and meet to do team building activities and discuss ways to implement the 7 Habits of Happy Kids. We have already had one meeting with our pack (last week) and look forward to meeting with our “families” again in October!

Leader in Me and Second Step -This week using the Leader in Me program, students learned about the physical environment of the classroom and what they can do to keep the school and classroom clean and organized. -Using the Second Step program, students learned how making a good plan can help you be a better learner.

Next week... Reading: We will be reading another

informational passage, Surviving Mount Everest. We will review non-fiction text features while also focusing on identifying details in the text to support our answers, opinions, and inferences about the text.

Writing: Students are connecting parts

of speech and good sentences to make “juicy” paragraphs. We will continue this focus over the next couple of weeks while students build their “Hamburger Paragraphs.”

Math: We just started our unit over

finding the perimeter of regular and irregular shapes. Students will use their knowledge and strategies from the addition unit to help with this. Afterwards, we will start our unit over subtraction.

Social Studies: Students will learn

about the different landforms and create their own continent. We will fill out a study guide over the continents, oceans, and where we live. They will take a quiz over this next week.

Students will need to know their home address for the quiz next week!!

Spelling: Students will be working with

short and long vowels next week (list 6). They took the pretest today and will take the posttest on Thursday, Sept. 27th.

Important Dates Thursday, Sept. 27th

-Fun Runners -Grill Day -Fire Safety Homework #3 due

Friday, Sept. 28th -NO SCHOOL (teacher PD day)

Thursday, Oct. 4th -Fun Runners

Saturday, Oct. 6th -8am Jared Coones Pumpkin Run

Thursday, Oct. 11th -1/2 day of school (AM only) -NO SCHOOL (PM only – staff PD)

Friday, Oct. 12th -NO SCHOOL (staff PD)

Mrs. Reed’s Class *Brougham Elementary School* September 21, 2018

Leader of the

Week!

As we continue learning

about the 7 Habits of

Happy Kids and Leader in

Me, we will be looking for

how students are modeling

those leadership habits!

Leader of the

Week!

Ava Conklin is our Leader

of the Week! Ava puts

first things first in our

classroom by completing

work before play. She

also begins with the end in

mind on assignments and

tasks. Way to go Ava!