Check Today's Home Folder!

... you will find:

1. Movie Night Permission Slip:

The Third Grade teachers will be hosting a movie night on Friday, March 16th, from 6:00-8:30 pm. Parents, have a night to yourselves before Spring Break!! The movie being shown is "Coco", and there will be pizza served as well. The funds will be used to help the 3rd Grade teachers with transportation costs to deliver our plastic caps to Indiana, and deliver our recycle-made trash receptacle back to Pinebrook!

If your child/children plan to come, please return money and permission slip NO LATER THAN MARCH 13TH. We will not accept any slips after this date, because we need to place the pizza order based on the number of students attending. 

The form in your child's folder looks like this, or you can print one here:

2. Reading Homework Packet:
This is due NEXT WEDNESDAY, so your student has one week to complete it. Please note each page should have a parent signature at the bottom. It looks like this:

Homework and Dates to Note

Hello All!

I hope everyone enjoyed yesterday off from school!

Folder Today
In your student's home folder today you will find two important papers - One is a survey that we need you to fill out and return ASAP! The other is an animal choice sheet about endangered animals. We will be working on research in Reading this unit, and your child needs to pick their top 3 animal choices. Please return this tomorrow.

SOL Night Tomorrow
Reminder that the parent SOL night is tomorrow at 6:00pm. This is great if you have never had a student take the SOLs, or have general questions about the test. We will meet in the library. Feel free to bring a device if you would like to visit websites we discuss in the presentation. We will also post the presentation online to view.

Here's the homework for this week, and some dates to take note of:

Dates:
*NO new word study words this week. We are instead doing synonyms/antonyms in class.
Feb. 21 - Parent SOL Info Night @ 6:00pm
Feb. 23 - My math class, Measurement Test
Feb. 28 - Food Chains quiz
March 2 - STEAM Day (in school) and Dr. Seuss' Birthday!
March 6 - Fine Arts night 6:00pm
March 7 - Interims sent out (online)
March 16 - Dig It! Third Grade performance @ 8:30am
March 22 - Triple Play @ John Champe HS 6:00pm
March 26-30 - Spring Break 

Affix Practice Games

You study guide: click here.

Base Word Baseball
Prefix/Suffix Fish
Prefixes & Suffixes 
Prefix Catch
Prefix Meanings
Practice with Prefixes
Fun English Prefix/Suffix Game
Scholastic Suffix Circuit

Homework & Affix Test

Hello All!

I hope everyone enjoyed the warmer weather this weekend, even though it was raining!

Affixes Test:
We are are learning about affixes (prefixes and suffixes) and will be having a test on Tuesday, Feb. 20th. The kiddos have a homework packet with a page assigned for each night this week, so please make sure they are completing this! We will check it in class each day. If your child has a busy night this week, feel free to work ahead one of the nights on that one extra page, but please DO NOT have them to sit and finish the entire packet in one night! We will be discussing several of the prefixes/suffixes each day, so it is better to practice the work to reinforce the meanings repetitively rather than try and figure it all out in one night :)

I am sending home the study guide with your child today, but just in case it gets lost in transportation, here is a document of it as well. 

Valentine Party
We are having our Valentine's Day party on Wednesday, Feb. 14th. Our celebration will be spread a bit throughout the day - We will be watching Because of Winn-Dixie in the morning, later making our Valentine bags to collect any cards/notes, and in the afternoon giving out our valentines and having our popcorn and juice snacks. If any parents would like to donate stickers, paper cut-outs, etc. to help the kiddos decorate their back, feel free to send things in with your student!

Homework:
Your student's agenda this week should look like this.

Random Awesome Knowledge for you (RAK!)

Comfort Cases and RAK Week:
Next week is Random Act of Kindness week - RAK ("rack") Week! Please talk with your student about kindness and how they could do something truly kind for others each day. Here is the link to Random Acts of Kindness website for more information. Also, here are some ideas of random acts of kindness for your family and kids - make it an Acts of Kindness month if you want!

RAK Week at school will end on Feb. 17th - Pinebrook's "Comfort Cases" packing day!
Remember to come help pack the bags with all the amazing donations you've been collecting! If you have any last donations, we can still accept some next week before the packing day. Here is an instructional video made by kids about how to properly pack a Comfort Case :)

Report Cards:
If you haven't already, please remember to go on Phoenix to view your student's report card! They are no longer sent home in paper versions. If you forgot your password, follow the directions online to reset it.

Olympics:
The kids were very interested in this website about the 2018 Olympics! Here's the link if you'd like to look at home! Remember, tonight the opening ceremony will be showing.


Reminder:
Please return your Because of Winn-Dixie movie permission slip! I received many today, but if you did not send it in please do so by Tuesday at the latest! If you need a new copy, you can find it here.


Enjoy the weekend!
Mrs. Malley  :)

Things To Know, Valentine's Day, Homework

Hello All!

Here are the need-to-know items for this week and upcoming dates.

Homework:

Word Study Update:
Due to missing Mondays, we are having a change in Word Study schedule. Friday Feb. 9 - Friday Feb. 16th will be a new word list/quiz. Then, we will not have word study for 2 weeks. Word Study will resume on Monday, March 5th and continue until Spring Break.

Habitat Quiz
The Habitat quiz will be this Thursday, Feb. 8th. This is a change due to the missed day yesterday. However, IF we are to have another snow day tomorrow, the test will STILL BE on THURSDAY.

Math Fraction Test
Whether or not we have a snow day tomorrow, the fraction test will still be on FRIDAY, Feb. 9th.

Because of Winn-Dixie
Tomorrow, your student will be bringing home a permission slip for the movie Because of Winn-Dixie. We are watching this movie since we are finishing reading the book! In order for your child to see the movie, I will need everyone to sign a permission slip allowing their student to see it, since it is rated PG. The students are very invested in the story, and we have already read about and discussed all themes in while reading the book together. You can also find the permission slip and information here. Please let me know if you have any questions about this.

Valentines Day Celebration
On Wednesday, Feb. 14th, we will have a Valentine's Day celebration in class. We will be making/decorating brown bags for students to share valentines. They will have a bit of time to create some in class if they want, but they are welcome to prepare their valentines beforehand at home. I will print a class list with names and send it home in Thursday folders. We will be having juice and Skinny-pop-popcorn.  If anyone would like to donate any stickers, cut-out valentine pictures/hearts, etc. you're welcome to send them in!