A Few RemindersMark your calendars! The 3rd grade Winter Program is on Thursday, December 5th. Our performers will sing at 9:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Please send your child in the appropriate attire detailed on the image below. Please note on Friday, December 6, we will be supporting Taylor High School by wearing blue! Reading & WritingReading: This week in reading we will continue to learn about characters. We will study how a character resolves trouble and interacts with secondary characters. At home, read fictional stories with your child. Be on the lookout for the big problem the main character faces and discuss how the character deals with that problem. In addition, identify the supporting characters in the story and their significance in the main character's life. Writing: In writing this week, we will continue to develop our baby literary essay skills. On Friday, we will have our Cold Prompt major grade. Please refer to both the outline and the packet coming home with your child. Completing the homework will help your child come to school prepared to write the best possible essay! View the essay below as an additional resource as you are practicing at home. Grammar & Conventions: This week we will study superlatives and comparatives. Word Study: This week we will be learning how to take two words and combine them into a contraction. Math & Science:Math: This week in math we will study perimeter, which is the distance around a shape. Students will explore how to find the perimeter and also how to solve for the length of a missing side. We will also learn how to use a ruler and measure in inches and centimeters. Science: In science this week we are exploring fast changes to earth's surface. These include volcanoes, earthquakes and landslides. We will have a couple of hands-on learning experiences as we learn about these amazing forces of nature!
A Few Reminders:Open House Please join us for our "Open House" on Tuesday, November 19th from 5:30pm to 8:30pm. We would love for you to take a look at some of your child's hard work from throughout the year! Classrooms are open from 5:30 until 6:30. During this time, you can also shop at our "Book Fair" in the Pattison library or grab something to eat from a food truck! Third Grade Winter Program For important information regarding our upcoming "Winter Program" on December 5th, please take a look at the document below.
Reading & WritingReading: In reading this week, we will continue our "Character Studies" unit. We will practice noticing patterns in our characters' behavior and ask why our characters might be acting that way. We will also use what we know about our characters to predict how they might act in certain situations. Finally, we will set goals for ourselves as readers and learn to track a a character along a story mountain. Writing: In writing class, we will continue drafting baby literary essays with new claims. Specifically, we will collaborate with partners to come up with claims about character traits, character change, and the lessons characters learn. We will then discuss how to best support our claims with strong evidence. We will also be studying various baby literary essays, or mentor texts, in search of ways to strengthen our own essays. Word Study: This week, we will learn about the meanings and usage of suffixes "un-," "mis-," and "mal-." Grammar and Conventions: We will study how to use precise verbs and verb phrases in our writing. Math & ScienceMath: This week in math we will begin learning how to multiply 2 digit by 1 digit numbers. Students will learn how to solve these problems in multiple ways. Your child will learn the base ten model approach, partial product, and standard algorithm. Students will practice these approaches throughout the week during our guided math stations! Test Corrections: During our warm up time students will have the opportunity to reflect on their multiplication and division test from last Friday. Your child will be able to resolve any missed problems. The test will be sent home in Tuesday folders on December 3rd! At Home: Please continue to practice multiplication facts with your child! This is important when solving various multiplication and division problems. We have learned the following facts in class : X0, X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, X10. Science: This week in science we will begin our discussion on how slow changes affect the earth. Your child will learn all about weathering, erosion, and deposition and how these process produce soil. You child will participate in a hands-on experiment that will help to better understand these three processes and how they are connected.
Mother Son Game Night Tuesday November 12th 5:30-7:30 Reading: This week in reading we will begin our new reading unit, Character Studies! We will begin our unit noticing what our characters do and say and asking ourselves "What do these words and actions tell me about this character?" We will also begin a new read aloud, Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. At home, read fiction books with your child. When a character speaks and talks ask your child what this makes them think about the character's traits or feelings. Writing: This week in writing we will begin our Baby Literary Essay unit. Your child will practice making a big, bold claim about a book read in class. They will then learn to support their ideas with evidence from the text. During the first part of our unit, we will be writing about our character, Sassy, from Dancing in The Wings. At home, practice forming opinions about characters while reading books. Then, practice going back in the text to find specific evidence that proves that opinion. Word Study: In word study we will continue our study of prefixes. The prefixes we will learn about this week are im-,in-,non-, and dis-. Grammar: In Grammar and Conventions this week, we will learn how to use descriptive language in our writing. Math & ScienceMath: This week in math, students will continue building their skills in multiplication and division. We will learn and practice how to solve multi step word problems. These are problems that require two operations (for example, addition and multiplication) to solve. We will also have two days of guided math stations to practice multiplication and division skills before our test on Friday. We have sent home a review sheet for the upcoming test. You can help your student by checking in with them to see how they are doing on their multiplication and division. Encourage them to ask their teachers if they are confused on any concepts. We will be doing a fun review activity this week as well. At home, you can help your students learn their multiplication facts. We have covered the “times tables” for x0, x1, x2, x3, x4, x5, x10. There are many apps and websites out there to help students practice, as well as the tried and true flash cards. Science: In science, we continue to “dig” into the subject of soil. Students are learning about the layers of soil, how soil is formed and why it is an important natural resource. This week, they begin a big project to reflect what they are learning about soil, land forms and earth changes. Look for it at our upcoming Open House. |