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Happy Monday Pugh Tribe! I hope you all enjoyed your weekend. For all of my Alabama fans out there ROLL TIDE. We have a very busy week so you do not want to be absent this week. HOLIDAY SHOP TOMORROW 9:00-9:45 am make sure your student brings their money to school if they want to purchase something. Here is a sneak peak into what is going on in class... Math: We are diving into addition patterns using addition tables over the next few days to highlight the standard OA.9. To better evaluate how the students are doing with each standard, I will assess them on Thursday and create our Math Groups for next week based on additional practice needed or extension for those that already know the standards. Here is a link to some additional examples. https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/5460-identify-patterns-on-an-addition-chart/ Reading: Based on my evaluation of the class last week, we will start today with more Text Features practice. Tomorrow, we will move into discussing Cause an

Good Evening Pugh Tribe! I hope you all had a wonderful Turkey Day! I am so glad to be back with the Pugh Tribe today. Here is a look into what we will be learning this week... Math : The Pugh Tribe did a great job with area before the break. We will be moving into 1-step and 2-step word problems for the next few weeks. These word problems will consist of using all four operations (multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction) Reading: We will be reviewing text features and search tools to help build strategies for understanding the facts and information in an informational text. Don't forget to read 15 minutes each night and log it in the agendas! Homework: It is a Monday and I do apologize for not attaching the reading passage for tonight's homework. That being said, I will allow students to complete the small reading passage tomorrow morning as morning work before the announcements. We will not be doing spelling tests for the next few weeks. The students a

Good Morning Pugh Tribe! Happy Warm-Hearted Wednesday ! We have had a very busy week so I apologize for just now posting. Here is a look at the rest of the week. Math: We have been continuing our unit on area. We will be practicing through tomorrow and assessing on Friday to show our understanding of area and how we use dimensions to solve for area. Reading: Today and through the rest of the week, we will be looking at comparing and contrasting topics in a nonfiction text to show our understanding of the text. Spelling: We have new spelling words that are in your student's agenda. I want to encourage them to practice these common high frequency words and be ready to test on Friday. Weekly Work Packets:  **Please pay very close attention to this section.  I sent home a weekly work packet yesterday. Please review their work with them and sign and return no later than tomorrow. On Friday I will be sending home all of the Quarter 1 Weekly Work Packets for you to KEEP at h

Happy Monday Pugh Tribe! It was a great weekend for the Bulldogs and the Crimson Tide! We have a lot of exciting things happening this week in the Pugh Tribe. Here is a layout for the week: Math: We will be introducing a new topic this week... AREA . I am very excited to start our unit on area and connect that to the multiplication we have been learning in class. Reading:  This week in Reading we will be reviewing asking and answering questions to show our comprehension of the text. This time, we will be applying this standard to nonfiction texts. It will be a great week for reading! Spelling:  I am so proud of the hard-work our class has put into practicing their spelling words each week. This will be our last week of spelling words for the next few weeks. This is due in part to the other grammar focuses such as prefixes/suffixes and verbs that we need to cover for each day during the next few weeks. Here are the 15 spelling words: lock odd crop shock knob slot note

Good Morning Pugh Tribe! Sorry for the late post. I hope you all had a wonderful Monday! Here is a few announcements for the week. Math: We have been learning about the Distributive Property of Multiplication. We will be continuing this concentration through Friday. Reading: Please continue to read 15 minutes each night. I want to encourage you all to choose a nonfiction text to read so that we can become experts on different topics. Tomorrow remember to wear closed toed shoes for our outside activity. Spelling: New spelling words are in your student's agenda, we will be completing the Spelling Practice page today, our printers were not responding in the building yesterday. Spelling test will be this Friday. Thursday: We will be having some visitors in the school to observe how our school is doing with STEM. I want to encourage all students to come ready and engaged in our lesson on erosion and weathering. I believe that is all I have, if you have any questions, pleas

Happy Monday Pugh Tribe!  I hope you had a wonderful weekend. I just wanted to take a minute to say thank you for coming last week to meet with me and review your child's performance in Quarter 1. I have enjoyed teaching your children and learning from them each and everyday. As for this week, I am excited for all of the festivities we have coming up in the Warrior Nation. Just a few things I want to share with you all: Math: We will continue practicing our multiplication strategies. Along with these strategies, we will be looking at multiplying one-digit whole numbers by multiples of 10. Here is a Learnzillion video for you to refer to. https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/5253-multiply-by-multiples-of-10-with-base-ten-blocks/ Reading: The students have been doing a great job with identifying the main idea and supporting details in a passage. We will continue to practice this and begin looking at nonfiction text more. Don't forget to read 15 minutes each night! Spe

Good Afternoon Pugh Tribe! I hope you are all enjoying this beautiful Monday. Here is an outline of the week for the Pugh Tribe. Math: We will continue to review the arrays strategy for solving multiplication problems. I showed the students a learn zillion video to review this strategy. Here is the link: https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/7860-solve-multiplication-problems-by-drawing-an-array/lesson Reading: We are starting a new unit on nonfiction text and using text features to help build our understanding of the text. This will lead into the opportunity to read both fiction chapter books and nonfiction texts during our independent reading time in class. Parent/Teacher Conferences: I am looking forward to meeting with all of you to discuss your student's performance in class and how they will continue to excel this year in 3rd grade. Don't forget every day this week is EARLY RELEASE due to conferences. Recess: To ensure that all students are able to run ar

Good Afternoon Pugh Tribe! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Here is what we will be doing this week: Math: We will be finishing up multiplication and division for the quarter and lead into focusing more on two-step word problems. This will lead us into our focus for the next couple of weeks. Reading: We will be looking at citing text evidence to help answer questions to show comprehension. Don't forget to log your reading in your agenda each night! Early Release : Just a reminder, we will be having early release this Thursday at 12:30. Conference Week: If you have not already confirmed your conference time with me, please sign your students form in their Take Home Folder and send back to school at your earliest convenience. Thank you for taking the time to read the blog this week. Hope you all have a wonderful week! Best wishes, Ms. Pugh

Hello Pugh Tribe! Happy Fall! I hope everyone had a restful Fall Break. I am excited to have everyone back in the classroom today. Here is what we are focusing on this week in Math and Reading. Math: We are focusing on fact families to build on our Multiplication and Division curriculum. We are using arrays to show the correlation between 3 numbers that make up a fact family. Reading: Today we began our focus on Character Traits and will be continuing this focus for the week in relation to applying the terms we have learned to help us better understand the characters in our books. Homework Folder: Our 3rd grade team is finalizing the October Homework Calendar this afternoon. That being said, homework folders will be sent home tomorrow. Spelling Words: We are starting spelling tests this week to help support spelling in the classroom. The spelling words are found in the right column of their agenda and in their take home folder on a practice page. There are Class Dojo point

Hello Pugh Tribe! Hope you are all enjoying this beautiful Monday. Just a few reminders and videos for the week. Math: I am excited to begin our focus on multiplication and division. We will be focusing primarily on the Repeated Addition and Equal Groups strategies for multiplication this week. Then, we will move into division and focus on Repeated Subtraction and Equal Groups for division strategies. Here are two videos for you to reference for examples for each operation. Multiplication Repeated Addition: https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/7618-solve-multiplication-problems-using-repeated-addition/ Multiplication Equal Groups: https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/6565-understand-multiplication-problems-using-equal-groups/ Division Equal Groups/Drawing a Model: https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/6871-solve-division-problems-using-picture-model/?card=68516 Division Repeated Subtraction: https://learnzillion.com/resources/46219/ Reading: This week, we will be looki

Hello Pugh Tribe! Hope everyone had a restful weekend. We are excited to get started with our learning this week. Math: This week, we will be applying our understanding of the Addition and Subtraction Operations to word problems. This will be the focus for the entire week and gradually applying real life situations to using these two operations. Reading: We are finishing up Parts of Stories, Dramas, and Poems. Thursday, we will be moving into comprehension using reading passages. So I want to encourage every student to be reading at least 15 minutes each night and logging their reading in their agenda. Picture Day: Picture Day is this Wednesday the 12th!!!! Make sure you mark this on your calendar and dress your best for pictures! IOWA Testing: The Pugh Tribe did a FANTASTIC job during the CogAT testing last week. The focus and patience during the testing days were very impressive. Let's try and achieve that same work ethic this Thursday and Friday during the IOWA tes

Hello Pugh Tribe! Hope everyone enjoyed their long Labor Day weekend! I am so happy to have the Pugh Tribe back today. Just a few things I want to update you all on a few things happening this week. Please read all the way through!!! Math: We are finishing up addition strategies and moving into subtraction strategies. I have not been able to find a video on the two strategies (Counting On and Counting Back). However, students homework does not reflect these two strategies this week but I will send home examples for future problems. We will be spending two days on one strategy and then move on to the other strategy. Reading: This week and going into next week, we will be looking at different parts of stories, dramas, and poems. We will learn new terminology and see how the different parts help to make the whole. Don't forget to log your students reading in their agenda every night and initial! Progress Reports: Progress Reports will be sent home tomorrow in your student&#

Hello Pugh Tribe! I hope you are all having a wonderful start to the week. Here is what we will be doing this week in the Pugh Tribe. Math: We have jumped into using the Chunking Strategy for solving addition problems. Here is a link to the video that correlates with the strategy. https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/6543-solve-addition-story-problems-using-an-open-number-line/ Reading: Today we began our lesson by retelling major parts in our fiction stories. This will allow us as readers to build our understanding of the text. Beginning on Thursday, we will be discussing using Context Clues to decode meaning of unknown words in text. Wednesday:  We will have Early Release at 12:30. Please make sure that you write this in your calendar. As a class we will be working on a STEM day for our learning garden. Everyone will be in class on Wednesday. Weekly Work Packets: Students were given their first Weekly Work Packet to be reviewed and signed on Friday. Please review their g

Good Afternoon Pugh Tribe! We are off to a great start this Marvelous Monday! Just a few things that I want to let you know. Math: We are finishing the properties of addition and are moving into understanding place value and rounding. Here is a video that relates to rounding. https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/6243-round-to-the-nearest-ten-or-hundred-in-real-world-situations/ Reading: We are focusing on asking and answering questions as readers to check our understanding of the text. I want to encourage each and every student to read 15-20 minutes every night. Don't forget to log your reading in your agenda on the bottom of each day! Agendas: Students are responsible for coloring their agenda each afternoon as they pack up. If they are below green (Ready to Learn), I will color their agenda and initial the color. I have taped mini behavior charts in the front of each student agenda for your reference with the colors. Open House: I am excited for this Thursday. We wi

Hello Pugh Tribe! I hope you are all having a wonderful start to the week. I wanted to inform you of our new Homework Folder. Each day students will be bringing home a red folder that has a monthly homework calendar inside. Each day, your student will be responsible for completing the homework in the box that matches the date. There is notebook paper in the folder for students to solve the problems on. In addition to the daily problem(s), your student will be responsible for reading 15-20 minutes a night and log their reading on the bottom of their agenda. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email me. After repeated disruptions and discussions on Pokemon cards. We will be keeping our Pokemon cards at home. These do not need to be brought to school. These are items that can be enjoyed at home but do not need to interrupt instruction at school. This week in Math we will be discussing addition and moving into the associative property. Here is a link to the Learn Zil

Hello Pugh Tribe! I am excited to get the blog up and running again. We are off to a great start in the Pugh Tribe this Monday! We have been doing some Writing and Reading today and I am excited to get the ball rolling on Math tomorrow. We will begin diving into our curriculum on Wednesday. After talking with the 3rd grade teachers, we have decided to create an interactive reading notebook this year. That being said, we will need an additional COMPOSITION book. If you could send this additional composition book with your student no later than Friday, I would greatly appreciate it. Starting next week, I will be sharing videos with examples of the strategies we will be learning in Math as well as a homework sheet that will have a few problems for every day of the week. These homework sheets will be due Friday. However, we will go over the problems assigned for the night before to clarify any misconceptions. Last note I have for this weeks blog is about a community event happenin

Good Afternoon Pugh Tribe! Hope everyone has enjoyed their Marvelous Monday. Our goal for the rest of the year is to make each day count! This week in Math, we are studying polygons and the different attributes that make up shapes such as quadrilaterals, hexagons, and octagons. The students are also working on their multiplication memory facts. Their math homework for the week is a multiplication worksheet that will be due for a grade on Friday. Our spelling words for the week are: through, threw, new, knew, see, sea, write, right, government, and citizen. Our spelling test will be this Friday following morning announcements. We got to listen to the Cobb County Public Library this afternoon to find out ways we can be extending our reading through the summer. I hope everyone soaked in the information. We will be taking our RI (Reading Inventory) on Wednesday and the MI (Math Inventory) on Thursday. Please make sure that your student is on time both of those days. Also, don'

Good Afternoon Pugh Tribe! I hope you all have a had a wonderful Tuesday. We are jumping right into a review of equivalent fractions during math as well as a review of Subtraction and Addition within 1,000. I had the students solve a few problems as review and I would like for them to complete the math homework due Friday for extra practice. Here are two videos for extra guided practice. Equivalent Fractions: https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/4739-recognize-equivalent-fractions-using-number-lines/ Addition/Subtraction:  https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/8214-solve-subtraction-problems-using-a-number-line/ Our Librarian allowed our class to come in on Monday to make one final checkout for library books. I am allowing the students to keep them in their desk and read throughout the day. They are all due by this Friday to the Learning Commons. However, since we will be on our field trip, I have told the class to bring them in on Thursday so we can go ahead and turn the

Hello Pugh Tribe!!! Hope you all had a restful and relaxing weekend. We are off to a great start this Monday morning with one of our last sections of the Milestones. I would like to remind all students to get plenty of rest tonight and eat a healthy breakfast in the morning to prepare for the final day of Milestones testing tomorrow! There were several sleepy students this morning. We will not have homework again this week due to Milestones testing. However, every student should have brought home their Math Coach Book to get additional practice in over the weekend and through tonight. I would encourage you to not only have your student solve the problems but also explain their answers and how they solved the problems. We will be diving into our multiplication facts challenge starting tomorrow. This is one of the major standards that your student will be working hard to achieve this quarter. There is a letter with a chart of all of the multiples that they will be assessed on in th

Happy Monday! I hope you all had a relaxing Spring Break. We are all a little slow moving this morning. I wanted to send a reminder that field trip forms are due THIS Friday, April 13 th . I have asked if anyone needs another copy of the permission slip and a few hands were raised so I will be sending home another copy today. If you do not receive one today and still need one, please let me know and I will send that home with your child. Just a reminder, it is CASH ONLY! No checks please!!! Another reminder that yearbooks are $25 CASH ONLY!!! Due THIS Friday, April 13th. Also, Milestone testing starts TOMORROW ! I have had a few people return the baseball in the envelope that was sent home with report cards, but there is still time. This is just an opportunity for you to write a little note for your child to remind them how wonderful they are and ease their minds before testing begins. Just a few things to remember for testing: 1.     Please be on time! If you child chec

Good Morning Pugh Tribe! We are off to a great start in our week. Students will be bringing home both Math homework and Reading homework for the week. Parents, please make sure to remind your student to put it in their backpack every night so that they do not forget it at home. For Math and Reading this week, we are diving into our test prep activities. We will be continuing to practice our current standards as well as the standards previously taught in Quarter 1, 2, and 3. Report cards will be going home this Wednesday. Parents, please make sure you take your copy out of the envelope and keep the copy at home. The only thing that needs to be returned to school is the signed envelope. Your student will also be bringing home a Gimme 5 flyer and envelope in their take home folder. This is our big fundraiser to help support projects and buy different supplies that our school needs. Here is a link to the online donation page. https://4agc.com/donation_pages/bd85d325-bdfd-40ee-b

Good Afternoon Pugh Tribe! This week we will be discussing how we can compare and contrast text to text to support our understanding of the themes in stories. This will be our focus all week. There will be reading homework in your students take home folder as well as logging their reading in their agendas. For math, we will be reviewing time and focusing on using multiplication and division to solve for the unknown numbers. During our math time, I will also be reviewing area and perimeter based on the performance and feedback I got from the students through last weeks homework. The students have been given a math homework sheet for this week. Exciting update! We are so excited for our next field trip! April 27th, we will be going to Etowah Indian Mounds. For this field trip, we are requesting cash donations of $11 per student.  Please send in the exact amount, as change cannot be given.  Unfortunately, we cannot accept cards or checks and we will not need volunteers or cha

Good Afternoon Pugh Tribe! I am so happy to have all of your smiling faces back in the classroom today! I hope everyone enjoyed a restful Winter Break. We are getting back into the groove of things here in the classroom. For math homework this week it will be a few problems each day and we will go over it the following morning. Parents, please remind your student to write their name on their homework. It is hard to find the owner of each piece of homework when their name is not on it. This week we are reviewing picture graphs and line plots. This will lead us into finding the similarities and differences between a line plot and a ruler. For reading homework, we will be reading 30 minutes each night and recording it in our agendas. Speaking of reading, our class will be completing the RI tomorrow morning and the MI Thursday morning. Make sure you get a lot of sleep tonight! Friday is Read Across America! We will be celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday as well!!! We get to wear s

Good Morning Pugh Tribe! We are off to a great start this week. We have started our focus on determining fractions as a whole number. Here is a link to a video with a few more guided practice problems. https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/8304-express-whole-numbers-as-fractions/ We are starting something new with our homework. The students have received a few problems for each day. We will be going over these every morning to clear up any misconceptions. Please make sure your student puts their homework back in their Take Home Folder to bring back to school. Speaking of homework, 3rd grade as a whole will be completing reading homework each day for the next few weeks to prepare for the Milestone. They will be responsible for reading the passage and answering the questions each day. All homework will be DUE on FRIDAY. I sent out a quick email this morning due to a lot of questions this morning about tomorrow. After out staff meeting, Ms. Nelson notified the staff that we will not

Good Morning Pugh Tribe! Progress Reports are going home today with your student. They need to be returned to school with your student on Monday. I have provided an incentive of 5 class dojo points for each student that returns it on Monday! I am also sending home the 2nd quarter homework packets. These are yours to keep at home. From here on, the homework packets will have a pastel green parent signature page. We changed the color for the 3rd quarter so that we could send home the 2nd quarter packets for you to keep. If you have any questions. Please do not hesitate to email me at katherine.pugh@cobbk12.org Have a great weekend, Ms. Pugh

Hello Pugh Tribe! I hope you all are having a great start to a new week! We will begin our Math and Reading lessons in our coaches books. These books have similar questions to the Milestones that we will be taking this year. The students have shown a lot of growth and I am excited to see how they challenge themselves with the problems we complete in class. Our math homework this week is a two page progress check on comprehension for equal parts and math vocabulary. As usual, the students will be expected to read at least 30 minutes each day and log it on their agenda. We also have new spelling words for this week and they are key vocabulary and commonly misspelled words that have been noted in our classes writing assignments. They are: friend, through, people, spelling, enough, because, although, Massachusetts, Connecticut, colonies.  The spelling test will be this Friday! Please make sure your student is using the Spelling Word practice sheet throughout the week. We will be ha

Good Evening Pugh Tribe! This week we will be focusing on fractions represented on a number line. I have attached a learnzillion video that will provide a few more examples that relate to the standard that is being taught. Here is the link: https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/5372-place-fractions-on-a-number-line-2/ The spelling words for the week are:  who's, here's, where's, could've, I've, would've, should've, you'll, she's, there's.  Our spelling test will be on Friday morning so make sure your student is practicing these words and including the apostrophe. Homework packets were distributed today for students to bring home to show you their hard work. If you could please sign the packet and return to school that would be much appreciated. A highlight for the week, we will be having our Career Day activity on Friday afternoon. I encourage all students to wear their spirit wear on Friday. Ms. Nelson says that we will be sending home

Good Afternoon Pugh Tribe! I hope you all enjoyed your extended snow days. I know I am glad to be back in the school routines. This week we are learning more about unit fractions and equal parts. Here is a link to a learn zillion video on the standard that we are learning this week. https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/7920-recognize-fractions-breaking-shapes-into-equal-parts Math homework was distributed today and it will be due Friday morning. The students will be assessed on the spelling words given last week this coming Thursday. Please make sure that they are practicing the correct spelling and saying the words as well. Students per usual are responsible for logging their 30 minutes of reading each night in their agenda. Please log the title of the book and how long they have read. Any amount of time is better than nothing! Due to the snow days, we are still finishing up our whole class science fair project. This is a class project and it will be at the Science Showcase t

Happy New Year Pugh Tribe! I hope everyone enjoyed the break and are ready for a great start to 2018. The students will be bringing home a math homework page build on the work that we did in class today on perimeter. The students will estimate the measurements first and find the estimated perimeter of each shape. The next step will be to line up the paper ruler and find the actual perimeter of the shapes. This front and back page will be due tomorrow to discuss as a class. Students will be given their report cards tomorrow to be brought home and signed. I ONLY need the report card envelope back. The report card is yours to keep at home. If your student returns the signed envelope by Tuesday, they will be given 5 Class Dojo points. If you have not already, please fill out the first page of your students agenda for inclement weather plan. As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email me at: katherine.pugh@cobbk12.org. Best Wishes, Ms. Pugh