Thank you to the parents who drove on the field trip to the Aptos Museum on Thursday. Kids had a great time and learned some valuable local history. We have another field trip coming up in December to teh Museum of Natural History in Santa Cruz (across the street from Seabright Beach). Permission forms will be sent home on Monday. We are asking $2.00 per student for the cost of this field trip. You will need to resubmit driver insurance information because the new trimester begins this week.
Due to the Veteran's holiday, there will be no weekly spelling homework packet sent home. Nightly math homework from the Houghton Mifflin program will continue as well as Lit Circles. When your child completes his/her Lit Circle book, he/she should take an AR quiz at school. I will be sending home an individual list of each child and the quizzes they have taken so for. Quizzes are 10 points and should be passed with at least 70%. If the quiz was not passed, then either the book was too hard or not read completely. Students are to keep track of their own progress in their reading logs at school. However, when I printed out a class list, I noticed that some kids had taken 6-7 quizzes while others had taken zero. Students who are reading easier books should be able to take 1 quiz per week. The more advanced readers will take less quizzes but will have accumulated more points. Third grade is a trial year for students to become familiar with the Accelerated Reader program. The points are really counted in 4th grade.
Don't forget to turn your clocks back this weekend. Enjoy!
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