Pearson's Third Grade Blog

Kickin’ it with third

Here is some information about our 3rd grade teachers! We so look forward to getting to know you better this year! See you Monday!

Natalie Buckner

8^th year teaching

6^th year on the 3^rd grade team

Loves: 80’s – 90’s music, boom-boxes, and naps

Cortney Davison

18^th year teaching

11^th year on the 3^rd grade team

Loves: Yogurtland, Old School Rap, and Groovy’s

Meredith Lane

5^th year teaching

4^th year on the 3^rd grade team

Loves: Outback, Coke-a-Cola, and Eckerd’s

Allison Drewry

12^th year teaching

7^th year on the 3^rd grade team

Loves: Matthew McConaughey, Oklahoma State Cowboys, and Old School Rap

Val Spears

12^th year teaching

8^th year on the 3^rd grade team

Loves: Sonic Drinks – DR PEPPER, scary movies, and the lake

Welcome back!

I hope you have enjoyed your summer! I know all the third grade teachers here are so thrilled to start the year! We are hard at work in our classrooms and at trainings to make this third grade year the best year possible! If you are looking at this blog, we hope you are getting ready too! Before you come to school just remember that the teachers are just as nervous and excited as you are! J

If you haven’t already met your teacher, don’t worry, she is awesome! We cannot wait to get to know you and your family! Hopefully you were able to come to Parade into Pearson but if not, we can’t wait to meet you! J I have put together a list of things to remember for your first day!

Things you will need on the first day of school:

- A SMILE J

- Your school supplies if you have them

- Please wear your standardized dress

- A positive attitude

- A 1 inch binder of your choice!

- Any paperwork your parents may have finished filling out from Meet the teacher

Remember, we all love summer, but we also ALL love learning! J Lets have a wonderful year and we look forward to meeting you August 24^th, 2015 in your THIRD GRADE classroom! J

Love,

The Third Grade Team

We are finally finished with our Reading and Math testing this week! J We are so proud of all the students for doing their best on the test! 200 club has really prepared them for this type of testing and we are so happy they worked so hard!

To celebrate, we are having our READINGPALOOZA day today. The students have brought pillows, blankets, flashlights, and their favorite books to read all day long today. They are so very excited to be reading and doing activities involving reading today. (I’m going to say the flashlight reading was there favorite! J)

Do not forget that we will celebrate the Life of Mr. Rice by having Mr. Rice Day tomorrow during the day! If you bought a shirt to support that family please wear it tomorrow. We will be taking a picture of the participants! J

Do not forget that tomorrow night is also Pearson Family Movie/Reading night! The reading portion of the night starts at 6:00 pm but the Movie night will begin at dusk on the lawn. Bring dinner, the family, blankets, and chairs and come hang out with your Pearson pals!

Scholastic book orders are due to Ms. Lane by Friday, May 1^st, 2015. You can order them online using the class code

NDXKK

OR CLICK àhttps://orders.scholastic.com/NDXKK

Thank you parents for helping your kids be successful at home! We all appreciate your help and support!

Until next time!

The Third Grade Team

Thank you for visiting the 3^rd grade blog! J It has been a very crazy last couple of days with the weather here! Please be sure your child is bringing a coat to AND from school daily! We have some children who are walking home in shorts and no coat... so please bring it ASAP! J

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This week is CiCi’s Pizza night at the Rowlett location so come on and show your Pearson Pride by eating CiCi’s! Some of the proceeds raised this night go directly to Pearson! J

Awards assemblies will be this Friday 3/6. J Please be on the look out for an invitation from your child’s teacher letting you know if your child will be getting a special award. 3^rd grades award time is 9:00 so be there or be square!

Remember BOX TOPS?? They come on some really delicious GE products you can buy at any store! Cut those out and bring them to school, we get money for turning those in to PTA!

If you haven’t joined Pearson PTA please do! You do not have to come to every meeting just support Pearson and join! They are looking for more volunteers for some of the things we have coming up so please join! Look on the official Pearson Website for details. J

SPRING BREAK is coming up next week! March 9^th – 13^th. Have a wonderful and restful week then! J

The GISD Power Hour has been rescheduled to March 16^th and the link is below! We would love for you to join us that night and see some amazing things Garland ISD is doing to help your child be successful. J

https://drive.google.com/a/garlandisd.net/file/d/0B6bpgfFQb1j9VkFxdVpEX0dWM2s/view?usp=sharing

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THANK YOU FOR VISITING! Have a wonderful week! J

-The Third Grade Team

Hey there! WOW what an amazing time we have been having here! We had a great time at our field trip to the Dr. Pepper Center to go ice skating! We enjoyed our time there and had a lot of fun! This field trip reinforced what we have learned about the water cycle, ice (waters solid form), and how temperature effects that. We appreciate all the parents that went with us! We hope it helped you relive some skating memories. J

The February calendar has come out and a couple of big reminders for this month…

-We will celebrate Valentine’s Day with a party on 2/13 at 2:30. Look for more information on this to be brought home in your child’s PIE folder.

-The Schoastic Book Fair will begin 2/13 and continue through 2/20. It will be open daily from 7:50 am until 3:50 am. Students will have some library time to look through the book fair. You can send money with your child to purchase books. We also have a night 2/16 that parents can come from 6:30 – 8:00 to check out the book fair!

- 2/17 will be our College Day! Support your favorite college and wear a college shirt!

- 2/19 is the conference night. Conferences will be 15 minutes long and no conferences will be scheduled after 8:00 pm that evening. Please be looking for a conference invitation from your child’s teacher. J

- Grades lock 2/20 so be sure if your child was absent to remind them to have all missing assignments in by the 20^th.

-2/27 Spring pictures of the class and individually will be taken.

If you would like to send us pictures of any of the field trip please send those to your teacher as soon as possible! We know it would be great to have for the yearbook, blog, and classroom! Thank you for your support this year!

The Third Grade Team

P.S. Here is our tutoring schedule below! J Enjoy!

Teacher’s Name	Tutoring Day & Time	Tutoring Day & Time
Mrs. Spears	Monday 7:30 – 7:50	Thursday 7:30 – 7:50
Ms. Davison	Monday 7:30 – 7:50	Wednesday 7:30 – 7:50
Mrs. Buckner	Monday 7:30 – 7:50	Tuesday 7:30 – 7:50
Ms. Drewry	Monday 7:30 – 7:50	Tuesday 7:30 – 7:50
Ms. Lane	Wednesday 7:30 – 7:50	Wednesday 3:30 – 4:00

2015

We hope everyone had a very happy holiday and a nice time during the break! J We are now in our 2^nd week back to school in our new year and things are heating up in third grade! Some things to remember this week…

- Please be helping your child with AR nightly. Most of AR is done in the home and we are counting on our students to be reading at least 20 – 30 minutes every night. This can be a great time to spend with family, siblings, or even right before bed to relax.

- Next Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day so no school next Monday, January 19, 2015.

- Please be sure your child has a coat/jacket to bring to school. It is very cold outside and we want them to be warmed up when they get here. J

Thursday, January 29^th, 2015 we will be going on our Ice Skating field trip to remember the water cycle and properties of water in a fun way! Be sure to dress warmly, gloves, hats, scarves, and thick socks!

The City of Rowlett Parks and Recreations is getting ideas from students to help them recreate the park that used to be Kids Kingdom a few years ago. Please make sure if your child is interested in sharing their ideas they draw/describe them on the sheet of paper that was included in your child’s report card. Turn this page into your teacher by Friday, January 16^th, 2015 to give to the Parks and Recreations representative that will be here.

We hope everyone has a fantastic week! Please let us know if there is anything you would like to see on our blog! J We would love input from our parents and students! Thank you!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

This week we are out of school to celebrate Thanksgiving with our family, friends, and important people we love. The third grade team hopes you enjoy this time off! The entire week to READ, relax, have a great time, and hopefully get caught up on some holiday shopping! J When we get back we really get the ground running with school work so please make sure your child is well rested and ready to learn when they come to school on Monday. Can’t believe December is almost here!!

Here's the link to some great Scholastic books! Feel free to order online and get your books shipped to school to be delivered to your child! :)

https://orders.scholastic.com/NDXKK

Here is the homework packet for next week

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6bpgfFQb1j9YkptOW5kdE9VQ1E/view?usp=sharing

Here is the newsletter for next week

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6bpgfFQb1j9RU9iWkZDdGpka00/view?usp=sharing

Enjoy!

The Third Grade Team