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Weekly Update 3.29.22

By In News & Updates On April 5, 2022


Be on the lookout for…

  • Tuesday folders will NOT come home today. Look for a folder in coming weeks.
  • Spring break is NEXT week! No school April 9-17th. Enjoy!
  • We have NCCheckIn testing this week Tuesday (math) and Thursday (reading). These tests take place right at 9:30am and are virtual. For this reason it’s imperative that students be on time and have a CHARGED device! word-100%charged 
  • Invitations for Hawaii luau will come home tomorrow. Your child will receive an invite IF they read to Hawaii!
  • Order your yearbook here!
  • Please mark your calendars for our 3rd grade Food Truck Rodeo/Oakview spring chorus concert. More details will be coming forth, but THURS MAY 19th, students will be asked to stay afterschool as apart of our economics project presentations. Families will be invited to join their students in our classroom, and then enjoy the 4 food trucks that will be here. You are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, towels, etc to post up on the lawn and enjoy the DJ and concert! 

This week in Literacy:

In Module 4 we will explore the impact of water around the world! Find out standards, goals, and more by clicking this link to the parent information letter.

This week in Math:

The last remaining unit of our math curriculum begins this week with some more measurement concepts. Students will learn about US Customary measurement of length (in, ft, yd, mile), capacity (cup, pint, quart, gallon), and weight (oz, lb, ton). To assist parents in helping their kids I have included a guide. I know I had to refresh myself on some of these, so hopefully this makes things easier! 

Here is a parent guide for helping you and your student understand our main learning outcomes

Current vocab: inch, foot, yard, mile, measure, length, width

Concepts to review: place value, addition with regrouping, subtraction with borrowing, rounding to the nearest 10 and 100, quadrilateral, parallelogram, trapezoid, rectangle, square, rhombus, arrays, repeated addition, area, perimeter, rectilinear area, commutative property (flip flop rule), number line, product, distributive (break apart method), associative property, graphs, pictographs, bar graphs, numerator, denominator, unit fraction, partition, number line, visual model


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