Weekly Update 9.4.18
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On September 4, 2018
Thank you for remembering to stop by and check in to our weekly updates. Don’t forget to locate the secret word below and write it in your child’s agenda for an extra class dojo point.
Be on the Lookout for…
- Tuesday folders are coming home today. Work samples will make their way home in 2 weeks. Please return any necessary papers.
- Our first of 4 Scholastic Book Orders is coming home today. This is an awesome way to get your child motivated to read, and ordering online earns free books for our classroom! Please consider looking through the pages with your child. Just click this link here for easy ordering! Our class code is: GPPF6 and the deadline is Wed, Sept 12 by 4:00 pm. Thanks! word-scholastic
- Thank you for all the generous donations to our classroom supplies via the Amazon wish list or class list. Your generosity is very much unexpected and appreciated. You have one happy teacher over here!
This week in Literacy:
Students are beginning literacy assessments this week in the areas of fluency, comprehension and context clues. These will help give us an idea of what students know and give us a baseline on how far students will grow this year.
We are also learning about characters- their traits and motivation, and how their actions impact the story. Students will practice telling basic story elements and answering right there questions.
This week in Math:
We are continuing to connect repeated addition and patterns to open our minds to multiplication and division concepts. Memorization of facts is not the goal (YET…) rather, I want to ensure students know when and WHY multiplication should be used. There are tons of great resources for this skill- please check some out here in this amazing math review resource organized by skill.
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 Economics and Financial Literacy
Objectives for this quarter are:
| 3.E.1 | Understand how the location of regions affects activity in a market economy. |
| 3.E.2 | Understand entrepreneurship in a market economy. |
This quarter in science: In 1st quarter students will focus on Objects In the Sky
Objectives for this quarter are:
| 3.E.1 | Recognize the major components and patterns observed in the Earth/Moon/Sun system. |
| 3.E.2 | Compare the structure of the Earth’s surface using models or three-dimensional diagrams. |
