Baby Sherrill is due October 24! Mrs. Thomas will be taking over our classroom starting on October 20!

Geometry Help AND Vowel Pattern Videos

Geometry Help

• Quadrilateral Rap
• Definitions
• REALLY GOOD Quadrilateral Classification Video

Vowel Pattern Help

• Digraphs: Two Vowels Go Walking...
• Bossy R Video

Rounding Games to Play at Home for Practice!

Rounding to the Nearest Ten
Bike Racing Game
Math Balloons Game

Rounding to the Nearest Hundred
Mathman Game (like Pac-man)
Number line

Open House Info

Thursday, September 18th is Douglas's Open House! Please plan to attend at 6:00pm for an overview of our curriculum in third grade.  Another session begins at 6:30 which will provide information and answer questions regarding Read to Achieve, the state legislation that affects third graders based on their reading proficiency. 

*Please note that most grade levels offer 2 sessions of the same information.  However, third grade will only have 1 session that addresses third grade curriculum and that session will begin at 6:00.  

There is also a schoolwide PTA meeting that will begin at 5:30pm.  

Scholastic Reading Club

If you'd like to order from the Scholastic Reading Club forms that are periodically sent home in your child's Monday Folders, please order online using our classroom code JBYWP.  

If you'd like to send in a paper copy and a check, please make the check payable to Scholastic Reading Clubs and include your order form.  No cash please.  Thank you!  

Your participation in this earns our classroom bonus points that we can use for electronic books, classroom books, and other great tools to help us learn this year!

Parent Tutorial Videos (we know this is new to you!)

We understand that the directions on your child's homework that ask for "proof drawings" might be new to you.  So, here's a video to help understand how they're learning it in class.  Rather than just going through the steps of crossing out the tens and making ones, the proof drawing helps children see what it means to ungroup.  It's great for visual learners!
Subtraction with Ungrouping

Also, this week your child will be coming home with homework that asks them to make comparison bars.  Here's a video to help with that too!
Comparison Bars

Rounding with a number line, including how to set up the number line and the midpoint to show your work! (This has not been taught YET but it's coming soon!)
Rounding with a Number Line

Hopefully this makes homework a little less stressful for everyone! :)

Quarter 1 Conferences and Standards-Based Grading

Don't quite understand what your child's 1, 2, 3, or 4 means on tests or report cards? Here's a link that might help explain it:  http://www.wcpss.net/parents/guides/elementary-report-cards/index.html

Also, please sign up for a conference by clicking the link below!  
Quarter 1 Conference sign up