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Weekly Update 4.11.23

By In News & Updates On April 11, 2023

Be on the lookout…

  • 📝Tuesday folders come home Friday (rather than today) with report cards. 
  • 🗓️SAVE THE DATE- Tuesday, May 16th will be our 3rd grade Food Truck Rodeo and Oakview’s Spring Fling. Please see the attached flyer for more info.  More details will be coming forth, but 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! RSVP form coming next week!
  • 🌸Many students read all the way across America in the month of March earning a ticket to our Hawaiian Luau! If your child made it, please fill out the RSVP and information form linked here. I must have this form completed for them to attend on Thursday, April 27th from 4:00-5:30.
  • ❤️Our school is participating in Jump Rope for Heart this year. More information will come home in folders Friday, but visit this link to be connected to our school page.
  • ✏️EOG testing dates are coming soon! Our class will test on the following days: Reading- Fri May 26 and Math- Wed May 31st. Please do all you can so your child can be here on those days and have a great testing experience! word-testingiscoming

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:

Students are reviewing this week for the 3rd quarter NCCheckIn which they will take Wednesday, April 12th in our classroom. Then, we will start the last remaining unit of our math curriculum 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: capacity, gallon, quart, pint, cup, weight, mass, ounce, pound, ton 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, inch, foot, yard, mile, measure, length, width

This week in Science:

3.E.2 Compare the structures of the Earth’s surface using models or three-dimensional diagrams. 3.E.2.1 Compare Earth’s saltwater and freshwater features (including oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, and glaciers). 3.E.2.2 Compare Earth’s land features (including volcanoes, mountains, valleys, canyons, caverns, and islands) by using models, pictures, diagrams, and maps.

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