Friday, November 9, 2018

November 12-16


Author Visit
We had a great visit with the author Donna Bowman.  
She talked about her book "Step Right Up."  She talked with us 
about being kind and se signed a kindness pledge together. 

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Reminders:
  • November 13 - 3rd Grade Program/PTA Meeting, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
  • November 14- UIL Campus Meet
  • November 16 - Adventure Dash Fun Run
  • November 19-23 - Thanksgiving Break
  • November 30 - Austin Jazz Workshop- We will have a different schedule

  • Science Fair - The Caraway Science Fair will be held on January 23, 2019.
  •  Registration timelines is November 5, 2018 – December 14, 2018. 
  • Food Drive - We will host a food drive beginning November 1st - 12th for 
the Round Rock Area Serving Center. Barrels will be placed in the main
 hallways for canned and non-perishable food.
  • International night is coming December 13. We are looking for more volunteers to represent countries. So far we have Germany, Greece, Peru, Colombia, China, Philippines, Italy, India, Hungary, Japan and Korea. You can join a team or lead another country. 

 Reading
We have finished up poetry and will be starting biographies. 
We will talk about the features of a biography and the differences between
 a biography and an autobiography.  This week students will pick a figure in 
Texas History to learn about by reading their biography.

 Writing
Students will be conducting research on the historical figure they have
 chosen to learn about.  We will discuss using the text features of the
 biographies and sequencing as well as finding important facts. This
 will later be used to write their biography over their historical figure. 

 Spelling
This week we will review spelling lists that we have done before. 
This will be a time to review the rules we know.  At the end of the
 week we will have a quiz that uses some of the rules we have done before. 

 Social Studies
We will be wrapping up colonizing Texas before moving into the 
Texas revolution after the break. On Thursday we will be taking a 
quiz over all that we have learned about the portion of Texas history 
from Mexican Independence from Spain up to the start of the Texas Revolution. 
Homework - 
Continue to encourage your child to read each night, practice math
 skills and spelling as needed.

Optional Homework- Writing
1. Finish this thought: If I was the principal of my school, I would…
2. What are you grateful for?
3. If you could be friends with anyone in the world, who would
you choose? Why?
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