Important Dates
Monday, 4/2: School Resumes
Thursday, 4/5: Report Cards go home
Friday, 4/6: No School
Reading
The students have been trained on how to use Six Minute Solution in the last couple of weeks. This week we will focus on this program that helps students read fluently. The students have learned that reading fluently consists of 4 different things. To be a fluent reader, they must: 1. read with accuracy; 2. read with the correct speed; 3. understand what they read; 4. read with expression. Ask your child what this program is about!
Writing
We will begin our 4 week unit on expository writing this week. There are many different types of expository writing, but we will focus on the "explanation" part of expository writing. Many of the prompts we will write on ask a question and expect a explanation why. Students then have to support their reasons with details and elaboration. Here are examples of some prompts: Why is school a great place? or What is your favorite animal and why? Students will be using a 4-square graphic organizer to organize their thoughts before they write. Students will be learning to write a 4 paragraph essay using this organizer.
Spelling
Yes, there is going to be a spelling test this week! The students took the Unit 23 pretest before spring break. Unit 23 focuses on words that have a VCV (vowel, consonant, vowel) pattern. The spelling test will be this Thursday, 4/5/12.
Science
As we continue our study on the moon, this week we will focus mainly on the 8 phases of the moon. A study guide will be going home on Monday, 4/2 and the test on the moon unit will be this Thursday, 4/5.
Math
All math classes will be beginning Unit 8 this week. Unit 8 for third grade math focuses on fractions. Unit 8 for accelerated math focuses on perimeter and area.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Friday, March 16, 2012
March 21 - March 24, 2011
Important
Dates:
3/19- Math Acceleration Test- (Those already in Accelerated Math do not need to take the test.)
3/20: No school
3/23- ½ day for students
3/26- 3/30- Spring Break (no school)
4/2-School resumes
Reading
The students are going to be working on Functional Reading passages for the next few weeks. Functional reading passages are important in everyday life. We will explain that there are many forms of functional reading, such as signs, newspapers, recipes, menus, advertisements, and more. The students will learn how to spot important vocabulary and facts in the passages. We will teach this unit by modeling for the students, practicing together, and then students will work independently.
Writing
The students will begin a unit on Personal Narratives. We will emerge the students in various samples of this type of writing and form a list of things that are needed in personal narratives. Personal narratives are often one of the first types of writing that you do. Personal narratives allow you to share your life with others and experience the things that happen around you. The job of the writer is to put the reader in the midst of the action letting him or her live through an experience. You write about yourself and experiences that you have encountered, read, or heard about. You can become much more engaged when you write about yourself in personal narratives because you are the expert on the topic of your life. The students’ job will be to make the story interesting - as interesting for the reader as it was for them when it happened. Lots of description, lots of action, and lots of dialogue will help the reader feel what the author felt.
Spelling
The pattern for this week, list #22, is VCCV words. These are words that have the syllable patterns of vowel, consonant, consonant, vowel words. This week our spelling test will be on Friday, March 23rd.
Science
We are continuing our unit on The Moon. The students will learn many things about the moon. The students will learn about the characteristics of the moon, how craters are created, and will be able to compare and contrast the moon with the Earth and the sun. The students will also gain a better understanding of the terms rotate and revolve, which describe the moon’s movements. The students will then learn the phases of the moon. Check out the links about the moon on our blog! They have great information for the students reinforce what we are learning in the classroom.
Third Grade
Math
The Unit 7 Study Guide is due on Wed., 3/21. The Unit 7 Test is Thursday, 3/22. Unit 7 is a shorter unit and extends the basic multiplication and division skills the students learned in the first half of the year. The skills developed in this unit are important for many other concepts in math, such as estimation and multi-digit multiplication and division. The students will review multiplication and division patterns, extend their basic multiplication facts, and practice making estimations of costs. The students will also practice adding and subtracting multi-digit numbers and make ballpark estimates by rounding numbers to the nearest tens place. The students will also review some geometric concepts from previous units such as faces, vertices, and edges in a 3-D shape, as well as intersecting and parallel lines, rays, and segments.
Accelerated Math
The Unit 7 Study guide is due on Wed., 3/21. The Unit 7 Test is Thursday, 3/22.
Unit 7 focuses mostly on fractions and some probability.
3/19- Math Acceleration Test- (Those already in Accelerated Math do not need to take the test.)
3/20: No school
3/23- ½ day for students
3/26- 3/30- Spring Break (no school)
4/2-School resumes
The students are going to be working on Functional Reading passages for the next few weeks. Functional reading passages are important in everyday life. We will explain that there are many forms of functional reading, such as signs, newspapers, recipes, menus, advertisements, and more. The students will learn how to spot important vocabulary and facts in the passages. We will teach this unit by modeling for the students, practicing together, and then students will work independently.
Writing
The students will begin a unit on Personal Narratives. We will emerge the students in various samples of this type of writing and form a list of things that are needed in personal narratives. Personal narratives are often one of the first types of writing that you do. Personal narratives allow you to share your life with others and experience the things that happen around you. The job of the writer is to put the reader in the midst of the action letting him or her live through an experience. You write about yourself and experiences that you have encountered, read, or heard about. You can become much more engaged when you write about yourself in personal narratives because you are the expert on the topic of your life. The students’ job will be to make the story interesting - as interesting for the reader as it was for them when it happened. Lots of description, lots of action, and lots of dialogue will help the reader feel what the author felt.
The pattern for this week, list #22, is VCCV words. These are words that have the syllable patterns of vowel, consonant, consonant, vowel words. This week our spelling test will be on Friday, March 23rd.
We are continuing our unit on The Moon. The students will learn many things about the moon. The students will learn about the characteristics of the moon, how craters are created, and will be able to compare and contrast the moon with the Earth and the sun. The students will also gain a better understanding of the terms rotate and revolve, which describe the moon’s movements. The students will then learn the phases of the moon. Check out the links about the moon on our blog! They have great information for the students reinforce what we are learning in the classroom.
The Unit 7 Study Guide is due on Wed., 3/21. The Unit 7 Test is Thursday, 3/22. Unit 7 is a shorter unit and extends the basic multiplication and division skills the students learned in the first half of the year. The skills developed in this unit are important for many other concepts in math, such as estimation and multi-digit multiplication and division. The students will review multiplication and division patterns, extend their basic multiplication facts, and practice making estimations of costs. The students will also practice adding and subtracting multi-digit numbers and make ballpark estimates by rounding numbers to the nearest tens place. The students will also review some geometric concepts from previous units such as faces, vertices, and edges in a 3-D shape, as well as intersecting and parallel lines, rays, and segments.
Accelerated Math
The Unit 7 Study guide is due on Wed., 3/21. The Unit 7 Test is Thursday, 3/22.
Unit 7 focuses mostly on fractions and some probability.
Monday, March 12, 2012
March 12-16, 2012
Important Dates:
3/12-3/16: Book Fair is here!!! Students can purchase books throughout the
week. It will also be open during the
Fun Fair.3/17: Fun Fair and Book Fair 11am-3pm
3/20: No school
Writing
The students will begin a unit on Personal Narratives. We will emerge the students in various samples of this type of writing and form a list of things that are needed in personal narratives. Personal narratives are often one of the first types of writing that you do. Personal narratives allow you to share your life with others and experience the things that happen around you. The job of the writer is to put the reader in the midst of the action letting him or her live through an experience. You write about yourself and experiences that you have encountered, read, or heard about. You can become much more engaged when you write about yourself in personal narratives because you are the expert on the topic of your life. The students’ job will be to make the story interesting - as interesting for the reader as it was for them when it happened. Lots of description, lots of action, and lots of dialogue will help the reader feel what the author felt.
Spelling
The pattern for this week, list #21,
is compound words. Compound words are
when two words are joined together to create a new word. This week our spelling test will be on Friday, March 16th.
Science
We are beginning our new unit on The
Moon. The students will learn many
things about the moon. The students will
learn about the characteristics of the moon, how craters are created, and will
be able to compare and contrast the moon with the Earth and the sun. The students will also gain a better
understanding of the terms rotate and revolve, which describe the moon’s
movements. Check out the links about the
moon on our blog! They have great
information for the students reinforce what we are learning in the classroom.
Third Grade Math
Unit 7 is a shorter unit and extends
the basic multiplication and division skills the students learned in the first
half of the year. The skills developed
in this unit are important for many other concepts in math, such as estimation
and multi-digit multiplication and division.
The students will review multiplication and division patterns, extend
their basic multiplication facts, and practice making estimations of costs.
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