A Few Reminders:Pattison PTA is hosting its annual Colt Bolt Fundraiser & Fun Run, a multi-day, fitness-based fundraiser where students and families will help raise funds while also having a lot of fun! -The donation period ends on Friday, October 4th. All donations must be made online via FunRun.com. No cash or check. Registration at FunRun.com is simple and fun! Your children will love their star video where a photo of your child will appear throughout! -We cannot pull off an event of this magnitude without help from you all! Please sign up to volunteer at PattisonPTA.org/volunteer-needs. -Join us at the Fun Run on October 4th to cheer on your child(ren) as they run for a reason! Grade level times are listed at PattisonPTA.org on the Colt Bolt page. See what it’s all about and learn all the fun surprises PTA has in store for the students, by clicking the link below for an informational video starring Mrs. Barker and Alexa. Thank you, Colt Nation! https://youtu.be/YauVnA4USjo Reading & Writing:Reading: In reading this week, we are going to discuss the components of a strong summary. While reading with your child at home, stop periodically and have your child retell the biggest events from the beginning, middle, and end of what was just read. We will also have our Building a Reading Life Part 2 Test on Wednesday, October 2nd. Please review the review sheet sent home last week. On Friday, we will celebrate the end of the week by having a "Fun Friday Read-In"! Your child may come to school with a blanket and a flashlight to make reading even more exciting! Writing: This week, we are wrapping up our Personal Narrative writing unit. We will make last minute revisions to our stories before settling in to edit and publish our finished pieces. Finally, we plan on ending the week by celebrating our hard work Word Study: Our week in Word Study will consist of a review of closed syllables and open syllables. We will also have a Word Study Assessment at the end of the week. Grammar and Conventions: This week, we will review verb tenses, subject and predicate, and using an editing checklist before taking our Grammar and Conventions Assessment at the end of the week. Math & Science:
Science:
This week in science we will be continuing our exploration into energy. Students will participate in four labs which will study in-depth four types of energy: Light, Mechanical, Thermal (Heat) and Sound. A Few RemindersPattison PTA is hosting its annual Colt Bolt Fundraiser & Fun Run, a multi-day, fitness-based fundraiser where students and families will help raise funds while also having a lot of fun! -The donation period begins Wed., Sept. 25th and ends Fri., Oct. 4th. All donations must be made online via FunRun.com. No cash or check. This new improvement saves countless hours for teachers and volunteers while also allowing your PTA to better organize and track your valued donations. Thank you for your support! -Please sign up to volunteer at PattisonPTA.org. We are able to save a lot of money by hosting our own fun run and delivering our own prizes daily. But we can't do it without you! Thank you in advance! -Join us at the Fun Run on Oct. 4th to cheer on your child(ren) as they run for a reason! Grade level times are listed at PattisonPTA.org on the Colt Bolt page. Learn everything you need to know about this year's Colt Bolt, including all the fun surprises PTA has in store for the students, by clicking the link below for an informational video starring Mrs. Barker and Alexa. Thank you, Colt Nation! https://youtu.be/YauVnA4USjo Mark your calendars! Our Watch DOGS Launch Party has been rescheduled for Tuesday, September 24th from 6-7 p.m. in the Pattison Gym. This event is open to ALL Watch DOGS (new and returning) to launch the program for this year! Please come join us for pizza and learn about this awesome volunteer opportunity! Reading & Writing
Writing: This week, we will practice the all important work of becoming one's own job captain. We will be celebrating our independence as writers and reflecting on all that we have learned in our personal narrative unit as we draft new stories. We will also practice a new way of drafting stories as we relive specific experiences important in our lives. This will make our writing intense and real. We will have our Personal Narrative timed writing test on Tuesday, September 24th. Please study the review sheet that was sent home! Grammar and Conventions: This week, we will discuss using an editing checklist. Word Study: This week, we will continue our study of syllables. We will focus on open syllables. MathThis week in math we will be working on addition and subtraction within word problems. Your child will practice solving one and two step word problems as well as be able to identify what operation to use when solving these word problems. When solving word problems your child will be able to comprehend if the problems is building up to find a total (addition) or breaking down into smaller parts (subtraction). Homework: Our Addition, Subtraction, and Sounding Test Review was sent home Monday and will be due Friday, September 27th. Please make sure that your child is reviewing these concepts and using their math notebook in order to help them solve problems. Fluency: Please encourage your child to study the following multiplication facts. X2, X10, X1, X0. You can find these facts in your student’s math notebook behind the fluency tab. We will continue to work on these facts at school as well during our fluency time! Science
A Few Reminders:Reading & WritingReading: This week in reading, we will learn how readers use their grit to persevere even when reading might get tough! We will also learn several strategies for understanding the vocabulary in our books. Finally, we will explore various types of figurative language. At home, start building a personal dictionary of tricky words your child comes across. On Wednesday, we will transform our classroom into a "Starbooks Cafe"! This is a surprise! If you'd like to donate some of the materials to make this transformation possible, please visit the Sign Up Genius below. Writing: This week in writing, we will learn about how to stretch out the most emotional part of our personal narratives. We call this the heart of our stories. We will also practice forming paragraphs, revising our narrative endings, and revising and editing before publishing. At home, we recommend that your child journal important moments from their life. Word Study: This week, we will review spelling patterns related to open and closed syllables. Grammar and Conventions: This week, we will be learning about how to punctuate dialogue in our writing. MathThis week in math we will be continuing our discussion on rounding both to the nearest tens and nearest hundreds place. Your child will begin to take their rounding skills and apply them to solving rounding word problems. Later in the week we will be reviewing addition and subtraction with and without regrouping. Your child will participate in activities to enhance their knowledge of solving addition and subtraction problems. Please begin practicing your X2 multiplication facts with your child! See video below to watch skip counting by twos! Place Value Test: Your child is currently reviewing their place value test and working on test corrections in order to help reinforce tested concepts. Students' place value test will be sent home in Tuesday folders on September 24th! ScienceThis week in science we will wrapping up our unit on Matter by discussing what mixtures are and how we use them in our daily lives!
Please make sure your child is reviewing for the Matter test that will be on Wednesday, September 18th. Students will need to look at the yellow (or green) Matter test study guide that is glued in their science notebook (shown below). A Few Reminders:STEAM Field Trip: Wednesday, September 11th We are looking forward to an exciting day full of hands-on learning! Please send your child to school with a sack lunch. They will also need to be sure to wear their classes t-shirt color. Reading & Writing:Reading: This week in reading, we will learn how to make predictions while reading our just right books. We will then learn to predict not only what will happen next but also how it will happen. Lastly, we will learn the importance of discussing and sharing our reading with our reading partner. To help your child at home this week, ask them to predict what the character in the book they are reading will do next and how they will do it. Also, encourage your child to have quality conversations about books with you at home and with their reading partner at school. Writing: This week in writing, we will work on drafting our stories quickly to get all of our thoughts down on paper. Then, we will study the work of other authors to revise our writing and add in descriptive details and powerful verbs. We will also learn to find the most important part of our story, the part that tells the reader why our stories matter, and stretch it out building suspense for our reader. To help your child at home, have them practice storytelling out loud and challenge them to add more details to their story each time they retell it. Our first writing test will be on Thursday, September 12th! Word Study: This week, we will review the concepts we have learned so far. We will have our Word Study Assessment on Friday. You can help your child prepare for the assessment by completing the review that was sent home Friday (9/6). Grammar and Conventions: This week, we will focus on using adjectives and adverbs in our writing. Math & Science:
Science: The highlight of the week will be the field trip to the STEAM center. Your students will come home on Wednesday bursting with all the amazing things they got to work with. In our classes, we are continuing our labs on the properties of matter (mass, magnetism, temperature and sink/float). Later in the week, we will do another lab to demonstrate how the addition (or loss) of heat makes matter change its state. In other words, solids become liquids, or liquids become gasses. We will also be sending home a review sheet for our science test scheduled on Wednesday, September 18.
A Few Reminders: Individual Picture Day Fall picture day for Pattison Elementary is Wednesday, September 4th. You should have received a flyer for ordering in your take home folders. You may also visit the link below to prepay for your package online. https://www.prepayorders.com/school/pe4642 The Flyer Code is pe4642. Please have your student dressed in their best for their Fall photo on Wednesday. Field Day Shirts In your child's Tuesday folder, you will find their Field Day t-shirt order form. These shirts are such an important purchase! We wear them for several occasions throughout the year. This year, you can place your order online or by sending your child to school with the order form and money. pattison19.itemorder.com/sale Field Trip Form and Money On September 11th, your child gets to be a mad scientist as we head to the STEAM center for our class field trip! We sent home a detailed letter attached to a permission slip and media release form. The detailed letter will tell you all about the field trip and what your child needs to wear and bring. Both the permission slip and $3 are due Friday, September Reading & Writing:
Writing: We will begin this week with talking about how writers use many strategies to help spell words as they write. This can be strategies they have learned in school or have made up on their own. Next, we will learn that writers rehearse their stories by either drawing a quick sketch for our stories, scene by scene, or retelling their stories to their partner. Rehearsing your writing in these ways helps gather ideas in the story or understand where to add extra detail. Word Study: This week, we will focus on recognizing and understanding abbreviations. Grammar and Conventions: This week, we will focus on verb tenses in our writing. Specifically, we will discuss how to differentiate between the past, present or the future. Math & ScienceMath: Last week your students brought home a blue Test Review Sheet. This is homework that is due on Wednesday, Sep. 4. We are having a test over Place Value and Comparing Numbers on Friday, Sep. 6. Tuesday and Wednesday we will be having Guided Math Stations to strengthen and reinforce their skills in these areas. Please encourage your student to bring their math notebook home next week in order to study (but bring it back to school each day). Science: This week we will be exploring properties of matter with a series of labs about magnetism, mass, sink/float (buoyancy) and temperature. Students will learn about these properties with hands-on experiments. You can reinforce their learning by asking them which property they think is the most interesting.
On September 11, the third grade class will be going on a field trip to the Katy ISD STEAM Center for a day of science labs and experiments. A Few Reminders:Individual Picture Day Fall picture day for Pattison Elementary is Wednesday, September 4th. You should have received a flyer for ordering in your take home folders. You may also visit the link below to prepay for your package online. https://www.prepayorders.com/school/pe4642 The Flyer Code is pe4642. Please have your student dressed in their best for their Fall photo on Wednesday. Field Day Shirts In your child's Tuesday folder, you will find their Field Day t-shirt order form. These shirts are such an important purchase! We were them for several occasions throughout the year. This year, you can place your order online or by sending your child to school with the order form an money. pattison19.itemorder.com/sale Parent Orientation Third Grade Parent Orientation is Tuesday, August 27th from 6:00pm-7:30pm. We are very excited to spend an evening talking all about third grade! Please remember that this event is for parents only! Reading & Writing
Word Study: This week, we will focus on synonyms and antonyms. Grammar and Conventions: This week, we will do a picture talk noticing the major parts of speech. At home, please review with your child the following parts of speech: noun (person, place or thing), verb (action word), adjective (word to describe a noun), and adverbs (word to describe a verb), Math & Science Math: This week in math we will be reinforcing our understanding of place value, and will be practicing how to compare numbers. We will be comparing numbers up to the hundred thousands, which takes some new skills and a lot of practice. Students will also review how to compose and decompose numbers, which helps reinforce their numeracy (or number sense). Your students will bring home a test review sheet on Thursday, which will be due on Wednesday, September 4. They will be having a test over place value and comparing numbers on Friday, September 6. DreamBox: Third grade students will be using DreamBox again this year. As you remember, DreamBox is a math practice app that both reinforces and builds skills. The program can determine where each user needs additional practice and customizes the interface for the user. In addition, teachers can and will assign lessons on DreamBox that tie into classroom work. To maximize student use at school, we are asking that each student bring a pair of headphones that they can leave at school. Inexpensive wired earbuds can be found online or at local ‘dollar’ stores. Please no wireless headphones! Science: We had a great time in science last week, including saving Fred the Worm from drowning. (Good teamwork skills in all of our classes!) Next week we will be continuing our study of Matter by exploring in depth the three phases of matter: solid, liquid and gas. See if your student can show you one example of each! A Few Reminders:Please remember that are still no lunch visitors this week! If you would like to donate to our third grade wish list, please visit the link below! We greatly appreciate any and all donations! www.signupgenius.com/go/409054da5aa2ca20-third Parent Orientation Third Grade Parent Orientation is Tuesday, August 27th from 6:00pm-7:30pm. We are very excited to spend an evening talking all about third grade! Please remember that this event is for parents only! Field Day Shirt Orders In your child's Tuesday folder, you will find their Field Day t-shirt order form. These shirts are such an important purchase! We were them for several occasions throughout the year. This year, you can place your order online or by sending your child to school with the order form an money. pattison19.itemorder.com/sale Reading & WritingReading: This week, we will discuss how to select just right books perfect for us and how to stay focused while reading! At home, talk to your child about times when they feel they are successful as a reader. Ask them questions like, "What kinds of books do you like to read?" "When do you feel like it's easy for you to focus on reading?" "What makes a book too hard?" Throughout the rest of the week, we will learn more about our classroom libraries and the expectations of reading workshop. You can have your child explain these expectations to you at home. Writing: This week, we will review the main components of the writing process. We will also share the materials the students can find in our class writing centers. These writing centers will be a resource for children as they write independently in class. Next, we will tackle the first step of the writing process: brainstorming. At home, talk to your child about stories they could write about and topics that matter to them. Finally, we will discuss the expectations of our daily writer's workshop. Word Study: This week, we will focus on compound words. At home, practice finding these words with your child! Grammar and Conventions: This week, will focus on how simple sentences are made up of both a subject and a predicate. Math & ScienceMath: We had a great first week of school, and love having our new Third graders!! This week in math we will be learning about Place Value. What makes 100 and 1,000 different? Students will be learning how to write their numbers in three different forms: Standard, Expanded and Written. We often call this SEW-ing our numbers. They will also learn about the Ten Thousands place and the Hundred Thousands place. We will also begin working on their number fluency, starting with a review of addition and subtraction. Science: We will be starting Science this week! We begin by assembling our Science notebook, which will be a great study tool for the students as the year progresses. Then we start exploring Matter. Students will learn that matter has 3 phases: solid, liquid and gas. Most of this week will be spent helping students recognize and remember the differences between the phases.
Welcome Back, Colts!We are so excited for a great year with your sweet children! In third grade, we will have a snack time. Please feel free to send your child with a healthy snack each day. Please remember that there are no lunch visitors this week. If you would like to donate to our third grade wish list, please visit the link below! We greatly appreciate any and all donations! www.signupgenius.com/go/409054da5aa2ca20-third Reading & WritingReading: This week, we will spend time getting to know ourselves as readers! We will also be learning about the purposes for reading different types of texts. At home with your child, discuss what types of text they enjoy reading and how they will encounter different types of texts in their everyday lives. Writing: This week, we will spend time discussing how we are all writers! We will also learn the importance of writing about our reading. At home with your child, discuss the different types of writing that you experience in your every day lives. Math & ScienceMath: This week in math we will explore how we can express things about ourselves using numbers. Students will bring home a small homework assignment. Using the information from the homework, they will create banners that tell the rest of the class "All About Me." We will also start using our Math notebooks, which will be a resource for the students all year long. We are looking forward to an awesome year in 3rd grade math!
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