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Dear Wonderful Families,

I hope that each of you had a wonderful and relaxing Thanksgiving break. I have enjoyed mine. We are half way through our second nine weeks of school. Please look for progress reports this week in your child's Thursday folder.  Don't forget that we will be going on a field trip on Tuesday November 27th. We will be seeing a play at the Round Rock Performing Arts Center. The play is put on by students at Westwood High School. All third grade students in the District attend the performance each year. Please make sure if you signed up for lunch from home that you bring one from home. We will be eating lunch before we leave .

Thanks to all of you who sent in your t-shirt forms and money. A big thanks to those of you that sent in extra money for those that were not able to. I was able to get all of the shirts over the break and hope to deliver them to the printer this week. We will not have them for  this first field trip but  should have them for the rest of the year.

 I know that the next several weeks will go by fast so want to give you a heads up of some events that will be happening. Once again this year, the PTA will host the  holiday shop during the week of the December 10th. We will also have the Book Fair the week of  December 3rd.   During the week of December 10th, students will take Curriculum Based Assessments. They will take assessments in reading, writing, math and science. Each test will be approximately 2 to 3 hours and we will give one subject a day during that week.   I will be talking with them about these District Assessments but wanted to give you a heads up about these tests. If you have any questions about them please feel free to contact me.

Here is a look at what we will be doing this week :

Math : multiplication and looking at 2's.4's and 8's. It is important that the students begin working on memorizing their multiplication facts. Students should be able to explain to you the strategy of double, double double and double double double for multiplying 2,4,and 8 .

 Reading :We will continue to look at procedural text and how graphic features help us to understand procedural text.  Students will continue to read and respond to their book club book. On Thursday, we will have an assessment on  text features, main idea and procedural text.

Writing: We will work on revising our expository piece with a focus on transitions and sentence fluency. On Friday we will share our published pieces.

Science : We will continue to look at force and motion and then move into magnetism and gravity.

Social Studies:We will look at why taxes are collected. We will also look at what it means to be an American Citizen and what are the qualities of  a good citizen. On Thursday, we will take an assessment on the government .
                               HOMEWORK
Reading - 20 minutes each night and 60 minutes on weekend. Please record in log.
               Tuesday : Read the sheet Forest Daily News and answer questions .
                Thursday : Read the sheet Picnic Pranks and answer questions.


Math : Monday - Multiplication word problems
            Wednesday- Multiplication Review


I hope that all of you have a wonderful week .