UPCOMING
DATES:
Tuesday
August 30th – GET THE SCOOP NIGHT
September
5th – NO SCHOOL FOR LABOR DAY
Well we survived our first week of school! It has
been such a great week getting to know each of the wonderful students in my
class. I have been so fortunate to have an amazing group of students who are so
caring and kind. These kids will bend over backwards to help each other and it
makes me so happy to see that on a daily basis. I also can see our classroom
community starting to form and I have loved seeing the kids make new friends.
You would have no idea if you walked into our classroom that we all had just
meet each other less than two weeks ago! Here are a few things to be aware of
in the next week.
1.
FAMILY NOTEBOOKS: We have learned a lot of new things this
week, from establishing our class rules to starting to work on math and
learning about place value the kids have been working so hard! If you would
like to get a peek into our classroom check out our twitter account @Miss_Rutledge3
. Another great way to find out what we are learning is to check out the family
notebook that came home with your student this Friday. Our family notebooks are used to give the
students an opportunity to tell their families about some of the great things
we have been learning in class. The
students took their notebooks home today so please try to take the opportunity
to read them this weekend! Also feel free to write back to your child in the
notebook as well. This can be an awesome tool to help talk about school and how
they are feeling about things in the classroom!
Please make sure to return the notebooks by MONDAY AUGUST 29th!
2.
BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST-Another important thing to note in the
Friday folders this week are the behavior checklists. This yellow piece of
paper should remain in the folders AT ALL TIMES. I will send home this checklist every week
with notes and comments on how your student has done this week. Make sure to
sign the back of the page and send back the Friday folder on Monday. There is
also a place for you to write back if necessary but as always feel free to
email me with any other questions, comments, or concerns!
3. READING
LOG- Starting on Monday students will be bringing home their weekly
reading log. This is the main homework
assignment students will need to complete each week. This reading log asks that
the students read 20 minutes a night and write a short response about what they
read. If you are busy with soccer
practice or other events one night it is not a big deal Just make up the time
another night and make sure we still meet our goal of 100 minutes a week! Send the reading log back to school on Friday
to turn it in!
4. GET THE
SCOOP NIGHT- I am very excited to see each of you at get
the scoop night! I sent out an email earlier today asking for you to confirm
your time to me in an email! We had some people who still needed to sign up and
I wanted to make sure everyone had a chance to meet with me. I have read over the million words or less
pages that you sent back to me and I have loved getting to know more about each
student. Please feel free to bring anything else important to our meeting you
would like me to know!
4.
ACADEMICS- Here are some of the great things we will be doing
in class the next few weeks.
Reading- We have been
working on building our reading stamina. The kids have been trying so hard to
reach their goal of 20 minutes and on Thursday we meet and beat our goal by two
whole minutes. The kids tried so hard to “just keep reading” the whole time
they were practicing building their stamina. This next week we will be working
on building our Work On Writing stamina as well. We are trying to get to 20
minutes of independent writing as well!
Math- This week we have been
working on place value, standard, and expanded form of numbers up to
100,000. Soon we will be moving to
working on adding and subtracting three digit numbers. We will be working on
many different strategies for adding numbers to help the students solve them in
many different ways.
Writing- Thank you for
sending in some awesome pictures to help us decorate our writing notebooks! We
have been generating ideas to help us write and next week we will be moving
into our personal narrative writing unit.
Students will be focusing on writing about small moments and adding
details and description to make their writing more vivid.
Thank you so much for all the generous snacks and
donations to our classroom in the past few weeks. Our classroom has been able
to run so smoothly because of these generous gifts! The kids have loved being able to get a snack
when they forget one. It has saved many hungry stomachs this past week! I am excited to continue getting to know this
silly group of third graders!
Miss Rutledge
krutledge@cpsk12.org
