Mrs. Kocourek's 3rd Grade: Week of September 8

Hello Everyone!

What a wonderful first week of school. It felt so good to be with your child and get to know each student a little more. I can already tell it's going to be an amazing school year -- they really are a great group of kids! (Mrs. Steif was in for Reading today, and she even noticed how awesome they are too!!!)

Reminders:

Your child can bring their decorated Writing notebook and locker tag back if they did not yet
Agendas / Google Calendar: you should have gotten an email inviting you to access your child's Calendar. We will be adding our homework each morning to this Calendar. If you accept the invite, you can add this Calendar to yours so it shows up on your phone or device.
Seesaw: To get linked to your child's Seesaw account, please click this link and then choose your child's name. Once I approve you, you'll be able to see any time your child posts their work to Seesaw! (Seesaw is private -- you will only be able to see what I or your child posts, not any other child's work.)
Picture Day is September 30th. You can preorder and pay for pictures online or download the PDF to bring on picture day. (Picture retake day is November 11th)

Coming Up:

September 7: NO SCHOOL

September 21: Mrs. Kocourek will have a guest teacher

September 24: Family Night - Virtual Game Night

September 25: NO SCHOOL

September 30: Picture Day

Curriculum:

Math: We worked on deciding on some "norms" as mathematicians and math partners this week! Check it out:

Next week, we'll start our first unit on place value. We'll be building numbers in different ways (for example, we can think of 843 as 800 + 40 + 3, or drawing it as 8 hundreds blocks, 4 ten sticks, and 3 ones.)

Writing: Writers have been motivated to write, write, write this week, and I'm hoping to have this continue into our first writing unit: narrative stories. You might see your child come home with a "tiny topic notebook." Students got them this week to quick jot down any ideas they have to write about. Feel free to talk with your child about small moments stories they could write about, or even practice story telling with them.

Reading: Our readers impressed me with how long they could read already the first day! These first weeks we will be talking a lot about building our "reading life" - getting a good spot set up, finding just right books, and reading books as if they're gold! This is to set them up to love reading :)