Weekly Update 10.11.16
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On October 13, 2016
Be on the Lookout for…
- FIELD TRIP info came home in Tuesday folders today. The read through all the info, and return ALL permission, lunch, etc forms ASAP. Please use the OSP system to pay for these field trips all at once. Thank you to the 3 chaperones we already have for this trip. IMAX will not allow more at this time, but if n opportunity opens up, I will let you know.
- A password cheat sheet with ALL student account info is now complete. Please keep this inside agendas. These will help ensure students are getting necessary home practice along with what they are learning at school.
- Due to no school yesterday, October 31st will now be a regular school day, NOT a teacher workday. Please let me know if you will not be here so I can plan my day the most effectively.
This week in Literacy:
COGAT testing will take up a bit of our reading block this week. All 3rd graders will take this test Tues, Wed and Thurs mornings from about 9:30-10:30. More information on this assessment can be found here.
This week, we are continuing our “100 Words You Need to Know” spelling activities. Directions are laid out in the plastic sheet inside agendas, but basically students study 1 group/list per week with a quiz on Friday. They are expected to complete 2 practice activities per week in preparation for this quiz. If they pass all the words, they are finished with spelling tests for the year! If they miss words, they will go into a bank of words to be retested on in makeup weeks in December, January, etc. In short- it pays to study and pass the 1st time!
In writing, we are learning about using quotation marks correctly to show dialogue. We will use this as we begin writing our next narrative- a tall tale next week. Students are also publishing their personal narratives. Students will use Voicethread to make student stories come to life.
Students are also working with prefixes, suffixes and root words to see how meaning can change when adding things before or after the base word.
This week in Math:
This week students are continuing geometry! This topic is fun but vocabulary is KEY to understanding. For this reason, students will keep a geometry cheat sheet inside their agendas. For homework this week in math, they will need to shuffle and rematch vocab words daily. Please help however you can with this. word- quadrilateral
An awesome former coworker of mine created an amazing math review resource organized by skill. Check it out for games and activities on any math concept we cover in 3rd grade!
Concepts to review: place value, addition with regrouping, subtraction with borrowing, rounding to the nearest 10 and 100
A year long “Scope and Sequence” which lays out our math curriculum pacing for the year can be found here
This quarter in social studies: In 1st quarter, students will learn about Civics and Government.
Objectives for this quarter are:
| 3.C&G.1 | Understand the development, structure and function of local government. |
| 3.C&G.2 | Understand how citizens participate in their communities. |
This quarter in science: In 1st quarter students will focus on the Human Body.
Objectives for this quarter are:
| 3.L.1 | Understand the human body systems and how they are essential for life: protection, movement, and support. |
| 3.L.1.1 | Compare the different functions of the skeletal and muscular systems. |
| 3.L.1.2 | Explain why skin is necessary for protection and for the body to remain healthy. |
