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In an attempt to keep in contact with all of the Tatum-Williams family, please sign up for our Reminds if you haven’t already. You can use the app, receive text messages and/or go online.

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Mrs. Tatum’s Remind

Mrs. Williams’ Remind

Feel free to let the kiddos contact us! They can ask questions, send pictures, tell us what they are learning, whatever makes them feel grounded during this time of confusion.

We miss you bunches!!!

If you pick up the work packets from school, here is some additional information regarding two of the papers inside of the packet. If you have any questions or need help with any of the papers in the packet, please feel free to contact me at [email protected].

Butterfly paper – watch the following video –
Life Cycle of Butterfly
Please feel free to color the butterflies. Under the first butterfly, write 3 facts about butterflies. Underneath the second butterfly, write 3 opinions about butterflies.

I also wanted to explain the Understanding Area work page. Here are the answers for the fill in the blanks. Area is the SPACE a shape takes up. It is measured in SQUARE UNITS such as square inches or square centimeters. To find the area simply count the squares. Area is Squarea! Students can learn more about area by watching this video –
Learn Area

During the next few weeks of “social distancing”, the kids may be looking for things to do. Grade-level practice packets will be available for pick-up outside the Intermediate beginning Tuesday morning. These packets will not be graded, they are just for practice. In addition to those activities, some links are provided below for online activities that maybe played at home.

ONLINE PRACTICE:

1. The kids can continue to practice their math facts using XtraMath. This login information was placed in the front of their student planner at the beginning of the school year. If you are unable to log in, email me at [email protected] I get daily reports on the kids’ progress.

2. Multiplication.com is a free website where students can practice their multiplication facts playing games.

3. GimKit pratice is available in our GoogleClassroom – multiplication, 2-D shapes & *just added” 3-D shapes. If you are unable to locate this information, please email me at [email protected]

4. Education Galaxy is another great website that we have used at school. Their login information is also located in their student planner. If you are unable to locate this information, please email me at [email protected]

Check back for more great opportunities keep our learning moving forward!!!

BrainPop does an excellent job of explaining coronaviruses and COVID-19 to kids. Click below to watch!

http://www.brainpop.com/health/diseasesinjuriesandconditions/coronavirus/

Beginning Wednesday, March 18, 2020:

WOISD will offer meals to ALL students in the district. Meals will be served in a
‘drive through’ format from 11am-12 pm daily. Guardians/students are asked to
drive through in front of the secondary (HS/MS) cafeteria on White Oak Road.
Meals will be hand delivered to each vehicle. All school aged children will receive
a meal.
For those guardians/students that are not able to ‘pick-up’ we will home deliver
meals beginning at 12-noon each day. Please call the following number (903-291-
2090) or e-mail [email protected] no later than 10am on Wednesday
morning March 18th so that we can get an approximate number of meals needed.
Please make sure to include an address and any pertinent information.
School meals will be offered to students on the following dates during the current
Covid-19 closure:
Wednesday, March 18 th
Thursday, March 19 th
Friday, March 20 th
Monday, March 23 rd
Tuesday, March 24 th
Wednesday, March 25 th
Thursday, March 26 th
Friday, March 27 th
This information will be updated as needed. Thank you for your continued support
of White Oak ISD.
Go Roughnecks!

Happy Middle of March! Since our week will be very different this week, we want to remind everyone to keep checking our blogs and REMIND to keep in touch with what is going in our wonderful district! Please don’t hesitate to email or use REMIND if you have any questions! Remember to spend time together, read, talk, play games and keep wash your hands!
ROUGHNECKS FOREVER!

Enjoy Spring Break from March 9th through March 13th. Monday, March 16th, will be a Staff Development Day. Students will return to school on Tuesday, March 17th. Be careful and have lots of fun!!!

Math Learning Goals: 3D Shapes

3.6A(R)- classify and sort two- and three-dimensional figures, including cones, cylinders, spheres, triangular and rectangular prisms, and cubes, based on attributes using formal geometric language

3.6B(S)- use attributes to recognize rhombuses, parallelograms, trapezoids, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories

Math Homework:

Math homework is due this Thursday.   It was passed out today, Friday.   Please study all of your multiplication facts this week.  (0’s-10’s) Students are expected to recall facts to multiply up to 10 by 10 with automaticity.

Multiplication Test: Mad Three Minutes

We will take a multiplication test on Tuesday this week due to benchmarks.  The test consists of 30 multiplication problems.  Instead of giving one minute, students will be given three minutes.  This grade will be averaged with future multiplication tests for one grade in the grade book at the end of the 9 weeks.

Science Learning Goals:  Animal Adaptations

3.9A Observe and describe the physical characteristics of environments and how they support populations and communities of plants and animals within an ecosystem.

3.9B Identify and describe the flow of energy in a food chain and predict how changes in a food chain affect the ecosystem such as removal of frogs from a pond or bees from a field.

3.9C Describe environmental changes such as floods and droughts where some organisms thrive and other perish or move to locations.

Important Dates:

Dr. Seuss/Read Across America THIS WEEK

Wednesday, March 4 – Third Grade Reading Benchmark  (Students may bring a small healthy snack, mints, or gum)

Thursday, March 5 – Third Grade Math Benchmark (Students may bring a small healthy snack, mints, or gum)

Spring Break March 9 -13 and March 16 Student Holiday.  Students get one extra day!! 

March 18 Spring Picture Day