• Thank you to the Campobasso Family for spoiling us with pizzas!  It was such a delicious treat!

• It's hard to believe that we are talking about the end of the year already!  Please mark these dates on your calendar and if possible, reschedule any doctor's appointments on these days so our students can do their best work.

  • May 1st ~ ELA FAST Progress Monitoring 3

  • May 8th ~ iReady Diagnostic 3

  • May 15th ~ Math FAST Progress Monitoring 3

• We will have a closed campus beginning April 7th due to all the required end of year testing across the grade levels.  The last day to enjoy lunch on the Parent Patio with your child is April 4th.

• Please practice multiplication facts at home.  Students in third grade are expected to be proficient by the end of the year.

• If you have a dismissal change during the day, please contact the front office at 377-7400 prior to 2:15.  No dismissal changes will be made after this time.

• If you are interested in becoming an LOE volunteer, you must complete the online volunteer application.  The form must be completed to volunteer for field trips, classroom parties and celebrations, or to help in any capacity on school property.  This is a process that needs to be completed each year.  

ELA 

•  identify text structures and central idea, explain how details support the idea, explain how an author uses evidence to support a claim, and how text features contribute to the meaning of informational text

• summarize a text to enhance comprehension across genres

• explain how text features contribute to meaning and identify the text structures of chronology, comparison, and cause/effect in texts

• use the writing process to write an argumentative essay

Math

• order and compare fractions and identify equivalent fractions

Science 

• identify some basic forms of energy and recognize that energy has the ability to cause motion or create change

• heat is produced when one object rubs up against another and that things that give off light often give off heat

Social Studies 

• be able to explain how the environment influences settlement patterns in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean and compare the cultural characteristics of each

• people perceive places and regions differently

Leader in Me

• be able to explain why planning each week and using a planning sheet will help achieve things that matter most