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NEWSLETTER MRS. TURNER SEPT. 24-28

STANDARDIZED TESTING- All third grade students will be taking the Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) on Wednesday morning and on Thursday morning of this week. Please make sure that your child has at least two #2 pencils with good erasers. They can NOT use mechanical pencils on the test. Next week, Oct. 1-5, we will be taking the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS). A different subject area will be administered each day. Remember to get to bed early, eat a good breakfast, and most importantly…relax and give your best effort!

SPECIAL SNACKS FOR TESTING- A special snack letter was sent home with every child last Thursday. (apples around the edges) Please mark your date on the calendar and send in the appropriate snack that day. Some students have a * beside their names because they are being asked to send in a snack again. If that is a problem, please let me know. The students really enjoy this and look forward to the special snacks each day. Please keep in mind that we have some students with peanut allergies. (If your child does have special needs, you might want to provide your own snack those days.)

PARENT HELPERS- If you are scheduled to help Wednesday or Thursday of this week, please take the day off We are not allowed to have parents in our rooms before 10:30 during testing. If you are scheduled for the following week on any day, take the day off again In other words, I can’t have parent helpers during testing. If I need any special projects completed, I’ll send out an e-mail. Thanks so much for all that you do for us every week!!!!!!

MYSTERY READER- Many thanks to Mrs. Evans for sharing some great books with the students. We are looking forward to our new Mystery Reader this Friday.

DISCOUNT CARDS- Please try to sell the discount cards that your children brought home. They are a great value, and the money will really help our school.

FORD ENVIRONMENTAL CLEAN UP DAY- We had one this past weekend. The next one is this coming Saturday, Sept. 29, from 10:00-12:00.

MOVIE NIGHT IN THE GARDEN- Mark your calendar for Friday, October 5th- More details later.

PICTURE RETAKES- Students who were not happy with their pictures can get retakes on Tuesday, Sept. 25th.

BOOK REPORT- All students should have checked out a fiction chapter book last Monday. The book should have been approved by me. Students need to be reading it every night AND bringing it to school every day. The books need to be completed by Sunday, Sept. 29th. We will start working on the book report at school on Monday, October 1st.

STAMPEDE TO READ- Encourage your child to fill out cards, but also encourage honesty on this please

SUBJECT MATTER

SPELLING- Core Words- until, form, food, keep, children Bonus Words- science, rocks, minerals, fossils, core, mantle, crust, there, their, they’re which, witch / Cloze Review on Thursday / long e / Digraphs

READING/ WRITING- Continue discussing “Ooka and the Honest Thief” / Writing activities to go along with the Japanese folktale / Story maps / Read fiction chapter book/ Continue with “bag writing”

MATH- Students need to review elapsed time, addition, subtraction, and place value / Timed test on Wednesday / Please, please, please start memorizing those multiplication facts. This is SOOOOOO important!!!!!!

SCIENCE- Layers of the earth models are due on Tuesday. The test over the layers of the earth will be on Wednesday