I wanted to touch base to remind you of some events this week. This week kicks off our first Lower School Reading Week at Shorecrest. On Monday, the children will get to enjoy the author who actually takes the pictures under the water that he uses in his books. On Tuesday, is our character dress up day. The children are allowed to dress up as one of their favorite book characters. I have discussed with the children that this is different from Halloween and they are discouraged from being a Harry Potter or a Darth Vadar type character. They will wear their "character dress" to school on Tuesday morning. If they can wear it over their normal school clothes, that's great. But if not, please make sure they bring appropriate dress code clothes to change into after town meeting. All the children will travel to town meeting as their character for all to see along with the book that demonstrates the charcter if possible. The younger children will more than likely parade into our classroom areas after the town meeting so we can get a closer look. I know this will be fun for everyone. On Wednesday, we will have a schoolwide "drop everything and read" time in the morning. I have asked the chilren to be thinking about a book they can bring to school to read at this time. On Thursday is our Reading Festival after school. If your child signed up, we will begin our workshops promptly at 3:15 and go to 4:20 with dismissal by 4:30.
We will continue our discussion of the biography project and begin work on an in class project on penguins. This will reinforce research skills and how to paraphrase information.
We will attempt to complete chapter 5 in math. We are still working on decimals and I don't want to push this skill too quickly as it is one of the harder skills of third grade. Please continue to practice and review multiplication tables. We will have a 10's, 11's, and 12's quiz this week.
If you have not turned in your Grandparent or Special Friend form, please do so by Tuesday so we can prepare for our special visitors on Friday.
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