August 27, 2018

3rd grade is off to a great start! Be sure to follow the 3rd Grade Blog by email to get email notifications of new posts. Our blog is the primary way we get all 3rd grade news and info out to our parents, so be sure to check in regularly!

August 27        Elementary Open House at 6:30 in the classroom
September 3    Labor Day Holiday
September 7    New Family Dinner  & First Home Football Game! 
September 11  1st Chapel of the school year
September 13  Elementary School Pictures
September 17  Family Night
September 25  Chapel
September 25-27 Elementary Play
October 5         Homecoming
October 8 & 9   Student Holidays
October 10       Quarter 1 AR deadline
October 12       End of Quarter 1 
FIELD TRIPS & OTHER EVENTS
Put these dates on your calendar:

Fri., Oct. 19          Downtown Macon Tour
Thurs., Nov.15     Thanksgiving Play
Fri., Nov. 16         Jarrell Plantation
Wed., Dec. 12      Shopping Trip
Fri., Dec. 14         Chapel & Elementary Sing-a-Long
Thurs., Feb. 21    Capitol Tour in Atlanta
April  2019            Easter Egg Hunt (Date & time TBA)
May 2019             End-of-Year Bowling Party

First Quarter AR goal info is 4  passed A.R. tests on chapter books by Oct. 10. AR BookFinder is linked on the right sidebar for your convenience.
We all tend to “forget” concepts and skills we have “learned” if we have not used them for an extended period of time like summer vacation.  We have been reviewing different concepts mastered in second grade to refresh our memory.  As we move through  Unit 1,  second grade “developing” skills are revisited, and some are mastered.  The Everyday Math website is linked on the right sidebar for your convenience. Log-in codes are taped on the inside of your 3rd grader's planner.
In Guided Reading we are enjoying Flat Stanley and are learning many new and interesting vocabulary words. Please remember to send in an address for our Flat Stanley project by Thursday, August 30. Thanks for your help on this project. (Info was in signed paper folders on Thursday, August 23.)
Our first Social Studies unit is on communities, and we will also review geography skills. Included in our Communities unit is a third grade favorite, a study of Historic Macon.
Our first science unit is on Soil Science.  We took a trek around the campus exploring different kinds of soils visited the Science Lab for a lesson on soil layering.  There is a lot to learn about dirt!