3rd Grade News

***Tonight is the last night to fill out the Annual Family Stakeholder Survey***

The LCPS Annual Staff, Student and Family Survey is the most extensive and influential feedback survey conducted by Loudoun County Public Schools each year. We use the results to assess the learning climate in our building and make plans for the following year. We want to hear from everyone so that we can make the best decisions for ALL our students!

The parent/family survey will only take a few minutes of your time. You should have received an email from Dr. Aaron Spence that will include a link to take the survey. You will be asked to fill out a survey for each school in which you have a child enrolled (elementary, middle, high or program).

1) 3rd grade parents will be hosting a teacher/staff luncheon on Monday, March 18th. If you signed up to supply an item, please sent it to school tomorrow. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090B4BAEA92FA0FA7-48263803-3rdgrade

2) 3rd & 4th Grade musical program is Wednesday, March 20th at 6:30pm. Student arrival time is 5:45 PM - 6:00 PM. Students should wear black bottoms with either a sparkly shirt, red shirt, green shirt, or a yellow shirt with black bottoms. For more information Click Here

3) On Friday from 12:45-1:45, we are going to wrap up learning about Ancient Greece with a Greece themed party. Mrs. Brissing has offered to supply all the activities which will include games, mosaic craft, parthenon building STEM challenge, and greek snacks including olives, dates, pomegranates, and homemade Baklava and so much more. Please let Ms. Lynch and I know if you do not want your child to eat the snacks by Friday morning. Let me know if you have any questions/concerns.

4) Our next field trip will be at Blandy Experimental Farm in Boyce, VA on April 19th. We will be studying Soil. Please let me and Ms. Lynch know if you'd like to chaperone.

5) Camp Read-A-Lot will be at Banneker on April 24th from 5-7pm. We hope to see you there!

In reading, I am shifting instruction a bit to prepare for our Reading SOL test in May. We will still be growing our knowledge about topics being learned in Social Studies and Science as we have done all year, but we will do so by reading more passages, answering multiple-choice comprehension questions, and using IXL Language Arts. This week, we will be working on using text evidence to answer comprehension questions and learning some strategies to use when reading a passage. For the last two weeks in writing, we have been expressing our opinion about the theme, characters, and the main conflict in stories and backing up our opinion with text evidence. I put learning how to write a narrative story on hold, and we will revisit that later. In phonics/spelling this week, we will continue our study of decoding multisyllabic words as we break words into syllables and continue to learn more prefixes and suffixes. We started our cursive handwriting workbook last week! Students will be working in their workbook every day and completing 2 pages. We also started a new computer program called MyLexia CORE 5. It is like DreamBox in that it is an adaptive program, and students have a weekly goal, but it is focused on developing literacy skills. All students finished their weekly goal last week (40 min). Students are really enjoying the program, and I am super excited about it because it gives me additional data to target instruction. Most students can finish their handwriting and their weekly CORE 5 goal at school. However, I will send it home if students are having difficulty completing it. Since CORE 5 is adaptive, students should not receive your help if they are completing lessons at home. On another note, I cannot attend Wednesday's musical because I have class (my reading specialist program at GMU). However, I watched their practice performance on Friday, and you are in for a treat. They were AWESOME! Thanks for all of your support at home. I hope everyone has a safe and healthy spring break.

Wednesday, March 20th 5:30pm- In person PTO meeting

March 25th-29 Spring Break

Thursday, April 4th- Last Day of Quarter 3

Friday, April 5th- No school for students; Teacher work day

Wednesday, April 10th- No School (Eid al Fitr)