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Temperance Elementary School Third Grade Mrs. Stinnett [email protected] 946-2811 January 27, 2017 Dear Parents, This week we have been working on math SOL 3.20. Students have investigated the identity and the commutative properties for addition and multiplication. They should be able to share with you that the identity property for addition in adding 0 and the identity property for multiplication is x1. The commutative property states that the order of the factors or the addends can move but the product or sum is still the same. 3x4=4x3 During reading time, students continue to read biographies. Students are reading about either Rosa Parks, Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, or Cesar Chavez at this time. During our English block, students continue to learn about roots, prefixes, and suffixes. . Students have been learning about life cycles in science (SOL 3.8b). Students have been learning about frog and butterfly life cycles. Everyone did a great job on their life cycle models. Students are researching and organizing information for papers on their animal’s life cycle using the thinking maps model of writing. Projects and papers will be on display for sharing! We are learning about SOL 3.10 during our social studies block. Students will recognize the importance of government in the community, Virginia, and the United States. We will discuss the purpose of rules and laws, the basic purpose of government, and the importance of our government. Key vocabulary includes: community, rules, laws, government, and rights.

Dates to Remember:

February 2nd- Theatre IV presentation and Pleasant View students will visit with us! February 2nd- Chaz’s Birthday February 6th-10th- National School Counselor’s Week- Thank you Mrs. Eckenrode! February 7th- PTO meeting at 7:00 February 9th- Family Game Night 6:00-7:30 February 10th- Interims go home AND Pajama Day! February 15th- Parent Teacher conferences and YMCA interest meeting!! February 20th- Teacher Planning Day- ACPS closed for students February 22nd- Mrs. Leeds’s (our music teacher) birthday! February 24th- Saint Jude Math-a-Thon money is due February 26th- Mrs. Diane Mays’s (our school nurse) birthday

Thanks for all you do, Carla Fitzgerald Stinnett