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= __//**News Letter is now on your email**//__ = READING Reading is so important to success in school and in life. As with any skill, reading will improve and become easier with practice. There are two ways that will help your child to practice. First, your child should read at home each month for a total of 400 minutes. These times will be recorded in the student planner each night. Your child can read any kind of book or print that they enjoy. Science and Social Studies assignments will count for the reading minutes also. It is great when you read with them and discuss what is happening in the story or assignment. The reading minutes will also be recorded on a chart in the classroom. At the end of the year we will celebrate their success of meeting the monthly goals with a Pizza Party! Another reading goal includes reading one chapter book in your child's reading level and passing an AR test each month.  When your child is working on any math homework, encourage them to show you what they are thinking with objects such as beans or blocks. Also, if the problem is a "word problem", they must show how they found their answer. This could be a drawing or a number problem. A third grade goal is to have all addition and subtraction facts learned.

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