Happy Holidays

We wish you and your families happy holidays!  We hope to see you at our holiday parties on Friday, December 18th at 2:15.

SCHOOL WIDE READING CHALLENGE:  Each classroom is sending home a reading log in Friday folders.  We want student's to READ over the winter break.  There are many wonderful holiday books, and it helps maintain your child's reading stamina.  Record the time spent reading on the reading log, turn it in after the winter break, and your child will be entered into a give away for fun prizes!

Some fun online resources are:
https://myon.com/

http://www.storylineonline.net/

http://www.magickeys.com/books

http://www.myonlinereading.com/

https://www.getepic.com/  (1st month free-$4.99 a month)

http://www.justbooksreadaloud.com/

Very Successful Parent Teacher Conferences

Thank you parents for attending your child's parent teacher conference last week.  We had wonderful attendance.  We appreciate you supporting your child's success at school and meeting with their teacher to celebrate all their fantastic progress!

Fundraiser Catalogs Come Home This Friday

This Friday starts our Club's Choice Fundraiser.  Third grade students will bring home a catalog and can start selling items right away.  Some of the great items include: lots of breakfast foods, delicious cookie dough, magazines, and holiday wrapping paper.  Students can earn prizes according to how much they sell. This fundraiser will allow us to buy some technology items for our new computer lab.  Thanks for helping raise money for this great cause!

Fall Party

All third grade classroom parties will be from 2:00-3:00 p.m. on October 30th.  The added extra 15 minutes will allow for our classrooms to rotate through some fun game stations and have yummy fall goodies with our classes, too!  We hope you can join us parents.

Update on our New Classrooms

We found out that we will be into our new building and into our new classrooms the first week of November!  Our supplies and furniture will be moved the weekend before, and when students come back on Wednesday, November 4th they will be inside their new classroom.  It is beautiful and our construction crew has worked very hard to have it ready early.  Yaa-hoo!  The students are starting to count down the days (we are too!)

Send in those Box Tops!

We are collecting box tops until the first week in November.  Send them in ASAP.  This is another great way we can raise money for our school.  Every little penny adds up.  Thank you!

Habit 2: Begin With the End in Mind

Thanks to all the parents that were able to come to the Leadership Lunch.  All third grade classrooms had close to 100% attendance.  We appreciate you taking the time to come and learn about the 7 habits of leadership and how we are applying those in our classrooms.

This month we will dive deeper into understanding Habit #2: Begin with the end in mind.  This means to have a plan.  Students will be setting new goals for their learning and practicing ways they can plan ahead.  In our counseling class we have learned how to handle our emotions.  We planned ahead by practicing ways to calm ourselves if we are excited, worried, angry, or sad.  Kids THRIVE on a consistent schedule and it helps to know ahead of time what to expect so they have strategies to cope with the way they are feeling.

Below is a link that explains each of the leadership habits and ways parents can practice each habit at home.

The Leader in Me:  Teaching Leadership at Home