Pugh Tribe

Welcome Back Acworth Families!       I am looking forward to what this year has in store for the Pugh Tribe. I want to introduce myself to all of the new third grade families, my name is Katherine Pugh. It is my third year teaching here and I am so excited to be a part of the warrior family. This blog will be updated every Monday that we are in school and I encourage you to take a few minutes to read through the information highlighted for the week. This year, I will be utilizing Class Tag to communicate with our wonderful families. This is a new method of communication for me so I will be sending home more information by Friday on how to get it all setup and how it all works. I look forward to seeing you all at Open House!  Best wishes,  Ms. Pugh

Happy Monday Pugh Tribe! We had a blast at our End of Year Party today! Thank you for your continual support and encouragement this school year. This is a wonderful group of students and I am excited to see what the future holds for these young minds. Here is a look into what the last few days of the school year look like. Tuesday, May 14th: We will be continuing with 2-step word problems and continuing to practice their math fact fluency. In reading, we will be reviewing how to identify the main idea of a text when read aloud. The class will be taking the Reading Inventory (RI) this afternoon. Please make sure you are present all day throughout the week. Wednesday, May 15th: We will be practicing parts of speech and writing in complete sentences. We will be editing our narrative from last week and looking ahead to writing a final draft/typing. Thursday, May 16th: We will be finishing our last day of 2-step word problems before being assessed on our understanding of the stan...

Happy Tuesday Pugh Tribe, Sorry I was not able to post this yesterday. I hope you all had a great weekend. Here is a look into what is happening this week. Math: We are continuing our focus on MD.2 working with capacity. I have also been doing a review of addition and subtraction within 1000, we need to continue practicing solving these problems and then using the inverse operation to check our work. Reading: This week, we are looking at distinguishing our point of view from that of the author of a text. Milestones: We will be taking Section 1 of the Math portion tomorrow. Thursday will be our last day of Milestones testing for 3rd grade. Please make sure your student gets plenty of rest tonight and tomorrow night. Eat a healthy breakfast and come to school on time. I will have a treat for students who have been on time for testing all 5 days! Parents, I also need your help reminding your student to not stress about testing. I continue to remind them to do their best and wor...

Happy Monday Pugh Tribe! I hope you all had a restful weekend. Here is a look into what is happening in the Pugh Tribe this week. Math: We will be focusing on elapsed time and capacity this week. The students knocked it out of the park the first day with elapsed time so we should have a fun week with these standards! Reading: We will be reviewing the various standards taught this year to help prepare for the different sections of the milestones. We have also been using IXL for the different ELA and Math skills for additional practice. Spelling: We are on Week 8 of our spelling words list, here are the words. We will have our spelling test on Friday morning. children eleven weapon ribbon gallon cotton cousin napkin mountain cabin curtain certain fountain  apron dragon Milestones: Please make sure to get plenty of rest tonight. Don't forget to eat a good meal for breakfast and be on time to school. I do not want anyone to stress, this class gives their ...

Welcome Back Pugh Tribe! I hope you all had a wonderful Spring Break. Here is a look into what is going on for the Pugh Tribe this week. Math:  We continued review on partitioning shapes and took it a step further today with comparing equal areas of shapes. We will review this standard as well as the standard on categorizing shapes based on sides and angles. The class will take a post assessment to show their understanding of the standards later this week. Reading:  Today, we reviewed text features and will move into the different useful features found in informational texts. Homework: We have a new monthly calendar for the month of April. If  the students complete the weeks worth of the calendar, they will earn Class Dojo points. Reading homework is not optional, that will be reviewed each day based on key standards that will be assessed on the Georgia Milestones next week. End of Grade Testing:  3rd grade will start testing next Tuesday, April 16th. We w...

Happy Monday Pugh Tribe! I hope you all had a great weekend in the beautiful weather. We are almost to Spring Break...4 more days! I want to encourage everyone in the Pugh Tribe to be present and on time each and every day this week. Here are some notes and updates as we look into the schedule for this week. Math: The students have done a phenomenal job with our introduction to Polygons. We will continue this unit through the rest of the week. We have discussed angles and sides and how that helps to identify what kind of polygon it is. Reading: We finished distinguishing point of view last week and that leads us into comparing and contrasting two texts. We will analyze the texts themes, plot, setting, and characters using charts and Venn diagrams. Report Cards: Thank you to those who have signed and returned the envelope. If you have not signed it yet, please sign and return the envelope, the report card is your copy to keep! Weekly Work Packets: When the report card envel...

Happy Marvelous Monday! As we move into test prep, we have a few changes to our schedule. Mondays we will be getting a laptop cart to work on our typing skills, not only for test prep but as an addition to writing for standards. Along with more time on the computers, we will also be working on a few more reading problems for homework each night. As a 3rd grade team, we have assigned a reading passage each week with a few questions for Monday through Thursday. I will be going over this daily with the class to clarify any misconceptions. This will be our main homework, for additional Class Dojo points, I will be looking at homework calendars every Friday. So here is a look at the week: Math: Based on data from our unit assessments, I wanted to spend more of last week working on multiplication and division facts. So this week, we will be focusing on 2 step word problems and explaining the steps we took to solve the problem. Perimeter is a standard we will focus on in the 4th quarter...