Weekly Update 2.11.20
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On February 11, 2020
Be on the Lookout for…
- Tuesday Folders will come home again today. Please review work samples with your child.
- 2nd quarter report cards come home today along with some other paperwork. Please return signed report card envelopes but keep the items inside for yourself at home. If you wish to conference about your child’s progress, please indicate that with a checkmark on the envelope and I’ll be in touch to schedule a time with you. word-reportcards
- There is no school Mon Feb 17 (holiday) or Tues Feb 18 (teacher work day) next week. Enjoy an extended weekend!
- Friday, February 14th we will have a small Valentine exchange in the afternoon. This is optional but if you bring something, please make sure there is something for everyone. Yesterday, I posted a class story with an attachment to all student names. We have 20 students and 1 teacher. I can’t speak for the kids but the teacher loves sour candy, peppermint patties, and slim jims 🙂
- Today, your child is bringing home a small cabbage plant. Yes, you read that right! You’ll find a helpful flyer in Tuesday folders explaining this initiative further. Bonnie Plants has donated 200 plants to our 3rd graders to use as part of an upcoming plant unit we will cover later in the Spring. We will keep a few here at school, but want to keep the process going outside the classroom walls. Caring for and maintaining the plant is up to your discretion, but it would be awesome to take advantage of this fun learning opportunity. Please keep me posted on how things are progressing at home, and maybe your child could win a $1,000 prize for their green thumb! Visit this website for more details and tips!
This week in Literacy:
Students brought home instructions for at at home alien project last week This is due MON, FEB 24th! They will conduct their writing and research components at school, but may do additional work at home if they desire. Aliens who can survive on their planet are due at school.
Students are also finishing a planet research project in class. They are working to match facts with headings and how to group information appropriately. They will create final versions of their pieces using Google Slides which can be shared with you at home!
Students are continuing a fiction unit with a story called “Storm in the Night”. We are able to make lots of connections with our last story, and focusing again on characters, theme, and even figurative language.
We will continue “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park. This story piggybacks off other stories we have read about war stricken places where obtaining drinking water is a daily struggle.
This week in Math:
Students are wrapping up a unit on Area and Perimeter which puts their multiplication fact knowledge to work! This is a concept that students enjoy but can get easily confused with if they rush or mix up concepts. Area is the space INSIDE something and we teach it 2 ways. A basic quadrilateral is solved by multiplying Length X Width to get Area. Students will also use unit squares to count area, particularly for odd-shaped polygons. Please see tutorials and practice with games as needed.
Your child should have an icecream sundae sheet in their agenda to keep track of their successes with these 1 minute timed quizzes. There are 16 questions on each quiz and students pass with a 15/16 or better. If they do NOT pass, there will be a makeup opportunity each Friday during arrival. All quizzes will come home the day they are taken and will be located inside the plastic X sundae page. Please do what you can to help prepare your child for these fun and important assessments!
This quarter in Science: Our next science unit is: Objects In the Sky
| 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. |
