Weekly Update 3.20.18
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On March 20, 2018
Be on the Lookout for…
- Tuesday Folders will come home today. Please review work samples and check your child’s agenda for homework.
- Ellis Island Day will be Wednesday, March 28th. Yay! Students should arrive dressed and ready for our activities. More info will come home in Tuesday folders today. If you have any questions, please message me.
- Our celebratory Multiplication Master ice cream sundae party will also be Wednesday, March 28th at 2:45. We are in need of 2 icecream scoopers and supplies. Students will submit their “ticket” to see how many scoops and toppings they have earned over the past few months. Please see sign up genius link for ways you can make this party a huge success.
- Thursday, March 29th is a snow makeup day for students. Please let me know if you will NOT be here so I can plan accordingly:) Spring Break runs Friday the 30th through April 9th. I hope you enjoy this much needed break!
This week in Literacy:
Students began a new read aloud last week and will be spending a big chunk of March and April reading The Wild Robot. They are really loving it and are learning to look into more challenging stories for deeper understanding and bigger problems. Students do not need their own copy, but may enjoy getting one of this, or it’s sequel- The Wild Robot Escapes. word-Rozzum
Students are spending this week and next week practicing a reading skill called Notice and Note to make us deeper thinkers and overall better readers. We will read a different story each day and decide which notice and note skills we are using. The amazing books students will delve into this week are: The Bad Seed, Abigail the Whale, The Dark, I Want My Hat Back, Quickest Kid in Clarksville, and Train to Somewhere. We will also review Storm in the Night and The Matchbox Diary.
This week in Math:
Multiplication quizzes will continue this week. Students have a mixed facts or makeup test Wednesday March 21st. Makeups for any missed facts will take place THIS Friday. PLEASE do what you can to help students learn these facts quickly. They are expected to answer 16 in a minute. Fluency is key!
Students are finishing a lengthy, but exciting Fractions unit. Lots of vocab is important in understanding this concept. Here is a parent guide for helping you and your student understand our main learning outcomes
Current vocab: numerator, denominator, unit fraction, partition, number line, visual model
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
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: We begin an Immigration Unit to reach SS objectives in the following areas.
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3.H.1 – Understand how events, individuals and ideas have influenced the history of local and regional communities. 3.H.2 – Use historical thinking skills to understand the context of events, people and places. |
