CHARACTER TRAIT: Obedience 
Reference: Ephesians 6:1
Verse: Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Definition: Doing what I am told with a happy spirit
Opposite: Doing what I want to do
SPELLING WORDS
LESSON 3: Long e: ea, ee, ei
1. leaf
2. beat
3. easy
4. jeans
5. steep
6. really
7. mean
8. eager
9. reach
10. queen
11. speed
12. street
13. please
14. breeze
15. receive
16. deceive
17. cleaned
18. between
HIGH-FREQUENCY WORDS
19. said
20. says
CHALLENGE WORDS
* carnivore
* herbivore
PARENT CORNER
NEWSLETTER
Our Elementary Newsletter Program experienced computer technical difficulties which prevented posting of newsletters. Thank you for your patience in the delay of publishing Monday’s newsletter. Your child will receive a printed newsletter on Tuesday of this week.
BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT
Thanks to all who were able to attend the Back to School Night last Tuesday. If you were not able to come, a Back to School Night Packet was sent home with your child the following day with content on curriculum, schedules, dress code, field trips, and other items. You may wish to take time to look through the packet when you have a quiet moment. Thanks so much!
OWLS ALIVE!!
Our class wishes to thank Vida’s mom, Juliet Doty, for the incredible visit to our classroom on Friday as part of our study of the forest habitat. Mrs. Doty volunteers with the Fresno Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation. She is currently caring for two injured owls, a great horned owl and a pygmy owl, which are used for education throughout the greater Fresno area. She brought these fascinating creatures along with her and the kids were dazzled!
Mrs. Doty shared with our third graders the owls’ feather patterning in relation to where the live, their camouflage, how they hunt, what they eat, the nature of their pellets and why they have them. Juliet also taught students about the difference between nocturnal, diurnal, and crepuscular along with the nictitating membrane of the eye. The children learned how amazing God made owls!!
MATH TEST
Third graders will have a math test on Friday, September 29 over Chapter 1 Place Value. A Pre-Test study guide along with math homework was sent home on Monday in the Red Homework Folder to prepare for the test. You may return the completed work by Thursday or Friday of this week.
FUNDRAISER
Only 2 weeks left to sell! Students, be sure to get in on a LOT of GREAT prizes by selling as much as you can to your friends, family members, and neighbors. With so many choices like Signature gift catalog items, cookie dough, magazines and VIP cards, you’re bound to have something available to sell to everyone. Don’t forget to tell them that we are raising the money for our co-curricular actives like Music, Art, Drama, Spanish and PE. Without this money, those activities don’t exist!
Your fundraising money AND order forms must be turned in on September 11th. Packets must be given to your teacher ASAP that morning. The PST Board will be counting as soon as the packets have been collected from each class. Delivery for items will be Thursday, October 9th behind Building 5.
POWERSCHOOL
Please check your child’s grades on Powerschool weekly. You will want to save your child’s work each quarter in a file at home and send in anything that doesn’t coincide with Powerschool so I can check for possible changes.
Your child may re-do any assignment below a 70% that comes home in Monday’s packet for a better grade. If they are going to make changes, please return it to me by Thursday of each week. Thank you for your support and for helping your child succeed!!
HOMEWORK
Any work not completed in class, such as math, reading. language or spelling, is considered homework and needs to be returned the following day. Please communicate with me if there was a valid reason as to why a child was not able to complete an assignment. Thank you for your partnership in this area.
VISITOR PASS
Be sure to check with the office and obtain a visitors pass BEFORE entering the classroom.
PORTRAIT DAY
Picture Day is coming soon! Elementary pictures will be taken on Tuesday, September 9. Watch for order envelopes in the near future.
PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES
Conferences are the week of September 15-19. Monday through Friday of that week will be minimum release days at 12:00 noon.
SPIRIT DAY
Show your school pride each Friday and wear your favorite FCS shirt!
COMING ATTRACTIONS
Monday, September 1 – Labor Day/No School
Tuesday, September 9 – Elementary School Pictures
September 15-19 – Parent/Teacher Conferences (Dismissal at 12 Noon)
Saturday, September 13 – HAPPY BIRTHDAY SANJAY STEPHEN!
Tuesday, September 23 – HAPPY BIRTHDAY KALEB MARQUEZ!
Tuesday, September 23 – HAPPY BIRTHDAY MALLORY LOEFFLER!
Saturday, September 27 – HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAIGE DEFFENBACHER!
