Good afternoon Haigh families and Happy Martin Luther King Jr. day. Please take a moment today to reflect, remember, and teach your child about King’s message of hope for a country united. Now more than ever, children and adults alike need to remember this message and spread kindness and not hate. During class on Friday we spent some time discussing King’s achievements. Your child was assigned Google slides to complete. Take a minute to review these slides and listen to the several stories linked on slide 3 to commemorate this man;s legacy.
Thank you all for helping and supporting your child last week during our NWEA reading test. Almost all of the class is finished. While some scores reflect measures of growth, some scores remain the same or have even dropped. Please take some time today or this week to discuss your child’s score with them. I will be emailing them out shortly. Please click here to see the NWEA norms for 3rd grade. When talking to your child about their NWEA score please be sure to ask the following questions:
- Are you on time to class each morning ready to learn?
- Are you following along to each lesson, participating, and completing charts when asked?
- Are you on time to reading group each assigned day? Are you participating and coming prepared?
- Are you rereading your reading group book each night for practice with fluency and comprehension?
- Are you reading an ADDITIONAL 30 + minutes each night with a book of your choice?
- Are you utilizing reading through EPIC?
- Have you visited your local library for books or traded with a friend or cousin for high interest, on level books?
These questions can help guide a conversation about working hard to achieve success in 3rd grade. Spring testing is right around the corner and while learning remotely is certainly not ideal, it is all we have for now.
Reminders for the week:
- Assignment sheet for the week
- Math, topic A quiz tomorrow
- Students should be completing a lesson a day on Zearn to compliment our math program. I still have some students who are FAR behind. I do not want to manually move them up to the current module since the requirement is to complete them each night with homework. PLEASE encourage your child and set up a routine to follow through on this commitment.
- Friday we have a ½ day as the end of the semester is over. Morning classes will be the same but we will have no PM learning labs. Please have students look for missing assignments to turn in by Wednesday.
- Have students practice multiplication facts at home. They may listen to the skip counting songs on Schoology, use flashcards, or find a game to play online. We just started our
unit on area so we will be reviewing facts during class. Our next unit is fractions and that will go much smoother with a good comprehension of multiplication facts.
Looking forward to a great week ahead. Thank you for your support 🙂
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