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<p align="left">Dear Parents and Guardians,</p>
<p align="left">Look at this! Every week I learn something new thanks to Russ, our technology expert from the University of Chicago.  I think this monthly calender will help you keep up with important dates. I know it will help me. If I have updates to our room schedule, I will attach it to the weekly newsletter. I will tell the children when they should tell you to look for the update. </p>

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<p align="left">November - Arab American Heritage Month</p>

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<p align="left">Fri       6    No Class - Professional Development Day
Mon    9    6:30pm LSC Meeting
Wed   11   Veterans Day - No School
Mon   16   PTA Meeting:  6pm Dinner, 6:30 Meeting
Wed   18    No Class - Report Card Pick Up
Fri      20    PTA Sponsored International Night
Thu-Fri  26-27     Thanksgiving Break - No School
</p><p align="left">REMINDERS:</p>
<p align="left">The third grade will be taking a field trip on November 10th. We will see a presentation of <em>The Hundred Dresses. </em>The cost per student is $13.00. A permission slip must be in before this date. If your child hasn't turned in this form before this date, they will not be able to attend the performance. Please let me know if there are circumstances that will prevent your child from attending. </p>
<p align="left">Your child should have brought home a letter on Friday that explained Literacy Week. Each day of this week we will have a theme based on a popular book. The students who come to school dressed following the theme will be entered in a drawing. A daily prize will be chosen at the end of each school day. One grand prize will be chosen at <em>Family Reading Night</em> to be held on Thursday, November 5th from 6:00 p.m-7:30 p.m. Volunteers are needed so please let us know if you are able to participate.</p>
<p align="left">We will be working on the following this week:</p>
<p align="left">LANGUAGE ARTS:</p>
<p align="left">We will take the comprehension test on <em>The Treehouse</em> on Monday. We will begin the comprehension strategy of questioning. We think of questions related to text as thin or thick. Thin questions are questions that ask <em>when,</em> <em>where, who, or how many.</em> These type of questions can be found easily in the text. Thick questions are questions that ask the reader to think more critically. Thick questions might ask: <em>What if? How did? Why did? What</em> <em>would happen if...? What caused? How would you feel if you...? Why do you think...? Why is...? What caused...?</em>  When your child is reading with you or alone at home, asking thick questions can help them to think more about what they are reading.</p>
<p align="left">We will also continue to learn how to do various activities independently. This will allow me time to work with individual or groups of students. These lessons or activites will be a part of what we have learned and will follow the same format. These lessons will include word work, writing, reading alone or with someone, dictionary work and other activities that support our curriculum.</p>
<p align="left">WRITING:</p>
<p align="left">We will practice thinking like a writer.The focus this week will be using topic sentences to begin a paragraph. We will write paragraphs based on different topics.</p>
<p align="left">CURSIVE: Undercurve lower case letters "r" and "</p>
<p align="left">MATH:</p>
<p align="left">We will complete Unit Two this week. We will have a quiz on Tuesday. This quiz will be a Math Box in our EveryDay math books and review concepts previously taught. We will review for Unit Two test by Thursday and will take the test on Unit Two on Friday.</p>
<p align="left">HOMEWORK: Home Link 2.6, Home Link 2.7, Home Link 2.8, Home Link 2.9, Math Boxes as assigned.</p>
<p align="left">SOCIAL STUDIES:</p>
<p align="left">We will read <em>Globes and Maps in Map Essentials</em>. We will answer the questions related to the text in <em>Student Response Journal</em>. These questions give the children practice in finding information in nonfiction text and answering questions using complete sentences. We will take a test on Activity One and Two on Friday.</p>
<p align="left">HOMEWORK: Write a neatly written paragraph in which you explain what you have learned so far this year about why it is important to work cooperatively in your classroom or school community. You should include at least three things you think are necessary in order to make a good classroom or school community. You must explain each idea by giving examples of what you mean or making a connection. Students  should write this paragraph alone and then share it with you. Please write your comment/s at the bottom of your child's paper. This will be due on Friday, November 5th.</p>
<p align="left">SCIENCE:</p>
<p align="left">We will review what we have learned about how water interacts with various materials as well the fact that water invariably flows downhill. A test will be given on Friday.</p>
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