
TOPS 3rd Grade Weekly Newsletter
August 24, 2018
Top 5 things you need to know
1. Make up any work you've missed
2. Plan Your Week
3. Read the principal newsletter
You will receive an Elementary School Newsletter from the Principal 2 times each month.
4. Attend Monday Morning Meeting with your Homeroom Family
3rd Grade:
Buchanan's Brilliant Bears
Deegan-Smith's Spectacular DragonsMoore's Marvelous Monkeys
4th Grade:
Medina's Majestic Meerkats
Lipscomb's Learning Leopards
Walbek's Wise White Tigers
5th Grade:
Vandever's Victorious Velociraptors
McIntosh's Majestic Mavericks
Karl's Knowledgeable Komodo Dragons
5. Have your LC mark your attendance for each day
Course specific information For week of August 27th
3rd Grade Reading with Mrs. Deegan-Smith
Hello 3rd Graders! I hope you enjoyed "The Wind & the Sun", "The Bundle of Sticks", and writing in your journal this week. Please look at each ELA Course below to help you prepare for the week of August 27-31.
Literature: You will read in your "K12 Classics for Young Readers" pages 6-11, and complete "Language Arts Activity Book" pages LC 3-6. You will complete OLS Unit 1 Lessons 6-8. Please do NOT begin Unit 5. Please see picture below. Unit 2 will populate on your daily plan on Tuesday, 9/4
Writing: You will write in your "My Journal" pages 16-17. You will complete OLS Unit 2 Lessons 1-6 and Language Arts Activity Book pages WS 1-5. Remember these are the purple pages at the back of the workbook.
Vocabulary: No materials are required. You will complete OLS Unit 1 Lessons 6-10.
Spelling: No materials are required. Learning Coaches can prepare one of the games found in the Spelling Handbook. Please send me an email if you would like another copy of the Word Work Activities. You will complete OLS Unit 2 Lessons 1-5.
Reading Class Connect: We will be reading and writing summaries to help you prepare for your Unit 1 Assessment in Literature.
Teacher Graded Assignments: You will find your first TGA in USA Test Prep.
Reading 3 TGA 1 Fables
Please check the Gradebook Monday, August 27 to see if you have any 'm's. Your LC should give you a spelling test today, grade and then follow the online prompts to upload the score into Unit 1 Lesson 5. This is our only grade for this week.
3rd Grade Math with Mrs. Moore
Yay! You made it through your first full week of school! This week in math we will continue to work in Unit 1, composing and decomposing numbers and numbers in expanded form.
Please come to class on Monday with your journal, pencil, a working headset with microphone, and an awesome attitude. Also, don't forget to practice your flashcards with your learning coach for 5-10 minutes each night.
3rd Grade Science with Mrs. Cummings
3rd Grade Social Studies with Mrs. Lipscomb
Hello 3rd Graders! I so enjoyed getting to know all of you in class on Friday. This week you will be completing unit 1, lessons 4 and 5. We will work through lesson 5 together during class on the 31st and spend time identifying and locating the continents and oceans. Have a great week!
3rd Grade Music with Mrs. Bass
Every week you will check the grade level newsletter to see which Music Studio lessons to complete. Just open U1 L1 in the OLS and click the link to take you to Music Studio!
Music Studio lessons for the week of 08/27:
- In the Spotlight, Lesson 3 - One Small Voice
- In the Spotlight, Lesson 4 - Patriotic Medley
- Music Studio Assessment
Video showing how to get into Music Studio and find the lessons and Assessments page:
Video showing how to find just the Assessments page in Music Studio:
*Note: If you're having trouble loading Music Studio and it just freezes, please contact K12 customer care:
866-512-2273
3rd Grade Health/PE/Art with Ms. Buchanan
Happy Friday!!! I hope you enjoyed your first full week at TOPS. I know yall have been busy working hard in your lessons this week. Many of you have sent pictures of your self portrait already. I am still looking through them all. They are amazing!!! In Health next week you will continue learning about the body. In PE you will continue using your pedometer.
Lessons for this week:
Art: Unit 1 Lesson 3 & 4
Health: Unit 1 Lesson 3 & 4
PE: Unit 1 Lesson 2
TGAs: Due 8/31
Art: U1L1 Self Portrait (take a picture of your drawing and email it to me)
Health & PE: Log Survey includes a Health question.
The Hive:
We will continue to have Kahoot in the main room. Thank you LCs that have helped monitor chat and the rooms this week. I know it is wild in there but, it's recess. I hope everyone has had a blast!!!Previous 3rd Grade Weekly Newsletters
Blanda Watt, Elementary School Principal
Email: bwatt@texasonlineprep.org
Phone: 682.593.1514
Twitter: @TOPSMrsWatt