Weekly Update #22: February 5 - February 9

Announcements:​

• Economics Fair Information:  All 23 of our students have selected a product to make and sell at our Economics Fair!!  Now its time to purchase supplies and get started!!  Students will need to turn in their "yellow" form on Tuesday for the next teacher signature. Your child can complete more than this portion on the "yellow" form before Tuesday if they wish. Store receipts can be stapled to the form that list materials purchased and prices. 
• Valentine's Day Party Supplies and Volunteers - To make our Third Grade Valentine's Party awesome, we need your help!  Please, consider donating supplies or your time for the party. Click on this Link to sign up!  Thank you parents!!!
• Valentine Boxes and Valentine Cards - A pink flyer went home in Thursday's folders over a week ago about decorating a Valentine Box and making Valentine cards for each classmate. The list of students in our class is on the BACK of the pink flyer. If you have misplaced the class list click HERE. Please, bring these items to school on this Wednesday, February 14th. 
• Six Flag Reading Program - The form came home yesterday in Thursday folders. Please, read and follow the directions on the form. Students can turn this form in anytime before February 23rd.  
• Scholastic Book Orders: - The February Scholastic Book Orders are due Wednesday, February 28th. Place your orders online - Your Class Activation Code NP79X.  The link to order is HERE.  Thank you to Varun's and Sarah's parents for making an online book order this month!!

Upcoming Events:​​​​.​ ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

• February 13 - Last day to turn in Economics Fair Project Sheet to be signed off for: "Prototype, Why will buyers buy it, and Parent Signature"
• February 14 - Bring in Valentine Cards & Valentine's Day decorated box, Valentine's Day Party
• February 16 - Science DCA Weather and Bluebonnet Breakfast Party (for those that qualified - 10 books)
• February 19 & 20 - No School 
• February 22 - Last day to turn in Box Tops!
• February 23 - Last day to turn in Six Flag Reading Log form
• March 1 - Third Grade Guest Speaker - Meteorologist from KVUE 
• March 6 - The 3rd Grade Economics Fair - Bring in your 35 - 40 items and your Economics Fair Project Sheet completed!
• March 10 - 18  Spring Break (no school)
• March 23 - Lilleboe/Raney Field Trip to Westcave Preserve​

​What's Been Happening In Class?  

• Writing: This week our focus was on grammar conventions (Contractions) and practicing our revising/editing skills. There will be a revising/editing skills DCA in a couple of weeks. 
• Reading:  Our next unit  is Traditional Tales (folktales, fables, myths, legends). We practiced summary/retell reading strategies as we read a variety of folktales this week. We also learned about "theme" and how to figure out the "theme" or the "lesson learned" in a story too. 
• Math: We are now into our 2nd multiplication/division unit for the year. We have learned our 1's and 9's facts this week. We will continue next week with 3's and 6's. Our Geometry/Multiplication/Division unit DCA will be sometime around February 23rd. 
• Science: We started our weather unit this week. We tracked the weather of 2 Texas cities for 5 days, then drew some comparisons between the cities using our data. We also did a couple assignments on STEMscopes (weather mapping, interactive activity, reading science). Next week we will learn about the various weather tools as we prepare for our test next Friday. 
• Social Studies:  This unit is Economics (financial literacy). We learned about Need vs Wants and Goods vs Services. We will continue with this unit for the next few weeks. 
• Enrichment: PBL Activity with Mrs. Raney's class and Ms. Potral's class.