Maple Elementary School

Text Box: Labels for Education Program Maple Elementary is again collecting Box Tops for Education and Campbell’s labels this year. Parents simply save points from qualifying products and turn the labels in with the date of purchase to the school. Maple will then redeem them for free educational items for the classrooms. Text Box: Third Grade News In third grade, our reading theme is Incredible Stories. The stories that we will be reading are hard to believe. A few of the stories will be Dogzilla and The Mysterious Giant of Barletta. We will be learning about fantasy and realism. Your child will have vocabulary words that come home each week at the beginning of the story. Please look over these words and study them with your child. Your child may switch to another teacher for guided reading. Most guided reading groups have homework. Please check with your child to ensure that they have completed their homework. In math, we will be continuing our unit on multiplication. Students have learned many ways to solve multiplication problems, such as repeated addition, cookies and chips, and arrays. We will be working on this for the next couple of weeks. The next short unit will be Probability, which will be finished before break. Your child takes a facts test at least once a week. This is a timed test in which students compute math facts. In science, we are learning about dinosaurs and fossils. Remember to sign your child’s agenda each night and help them with homework. Students will also need to read for 20 minutes each night. They will have spelling homework Monday through Thursday night with their spelling test on Friday. They will have math homework each night. On Friday, all of their work will come home in their Friday folder. Please look over the work with your child and sign the sheet. This work needs to be left at home. If you are not sure whether or not they have homework, you can check the homework hotline each night after 4:00PM. If you would like to meet with your child’s teacher, please call the school to set up a conference.

Volume 1, Issue 4

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 Mrs. Hadsell visits kindergarten