Happy New Year!
I hope everyone had a wonderful and relaxing holiday. The students had lots of wonderful experiences to share from their time off. I know I enjoyed my time off, but am happy to be back in the classroom!
I gave the students a pep talk today - the second term of grade 3 is the most intense and academically heavy. We will be pushing through lots of math and social studies this term. The students are ready to work hard!
Dictée will restart next Monday. Please send dictee duotangs back for next Monday, but you can keep all previous dictée sheets at home. We will be starting with sentences.
I wanted to remind you that there are lots of home reading books available in the classroom. I won't monitor if students take them out or not. I leave it up to you to decide with your child if you will use books from this collection or not. That being said, I do want to remind you all of the importance of having your child read at home for 15 minutes a night. Since students know how to read by grade 3, there is less guided practice in class, and more learning more complex parts of reading (comprehension, questioning, inferring etc). It is still so very important to be practicing basic decoding skills every night. I encourage you to use these classroom resources for this!
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