Weekly Update: October 4, 2019

Happy Friday 3B Parents!

The class and I had a wonderful week! The students are adjusting really well to third grade! I am excited for what this year has in store with this group of students! They are making so much progress with learning independence and responsibility! 

This week we celebrated the Feast Day of St. Francis. We made a poster with our pet pictures and presented it at the altar so our pets could receive a special blessing!

Important Dates to Remember:

• Wednesday, October 9th-School Picture Day
• Friday, October 11^th and Monday, October 14^th – No School
• Friday, October 18^th – Progress Reports
• Thursday, October 31^st----Pumpkin Project Fair at 8:30-9:15am

Secret Reader: Please remember to sign up for secret reader! Here is the link to the Secret Reader Sign-Up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e084fa9ab2fa5fd0-3bsecret

Message from the BSS PC:

Hello Parents,

On Thursday, October 17^th from 7:00-10:00 pm in the school gym, the BSS School Board and PC Leadership Team welcome you to join in a casual Meet and Greet.  Light appetizers, beer and wine will be served.  We encourage all to come enjoy a casual evening with other parents.  Please follow this link to learn more and let us know if you can make it so that we can plan optimally:  https://forms.gle/UiezSgeTYdNtYbDQ7

Thank you and we look forward to seeing many of you there!

The BSS School Board and PC Leadership Team

Math: Students took their Topic 1 tests this week. It was great to see so many students demonstrate mastery of the place value concepts introduced. Students are gaining more and more independence with the MATH Rotations. Next week we will dive more deeply into Topic 2.

Reading: This week in reading students have been learning about character traits. They learned that character traits are adjectives that describe how the character is on the INSIDE. They learned that they need to pay to attention to what the character does or doesn’t say and do. They have learned that when describing a character, they also need to provide evidence from the text to explain their thinking. 

Reading Rotations began this week. Check them out below!

Book Club

Read to Self

Listening to Reading

Technology Center

Writing: We have displayed their first paragraphs on our new bulletin board based off the book, What If You Had Animal Teeth? Students wrote about what it would be like if they had a certain animal's teeth instead of their own. 

Next week we will begin working on generating personal narratives along with building stamina for writing. They have so many stories to tell and I can’t wait to help them grow as authors!