Weekly Update 1.17.16
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On January 17, 2017
Happy 2017! Be on the Lookout for…
- Tuesday Folders will come home today. Please review work samples and school flyers and return necessary paperwork asap.
- There is an early release day this Friday, January 20th at 1:15.
- Genius Project planning sheets are due back TOMORROW, Jan 18th. Students received these and were instructed how to do this weeks ago. We will spend some time each week letting students take the reins on something they want to know more about. Questions about Genius Hour? Check this out to see why this is such an inspiring idea!
- There has been a whole lot of craziness these past few weeks due to inclement weather, but now perhaps we are back for a good while. The following days WERE teacher workdays, but are now regular days for students: January 27, February 20, March 31.
This week in Literacy:
Students are finishing our literacy unit on interesting and unfamiliar places, by reading a fictional narrative about a girl who lives in one of the extreme places we have learned about. Our focus is on the theme/central message of the story which is a tricky concept for most 3rd graders.
Spelling RETESTS on the “100 Words You Need to Know” continue FRIDAY, January 20th. This quiz is for GROUP SIX words ONLY! Only students who missed words the first time around need to prepare to retest. If you are not sure, check your child’s agenda for circled words.
Students will complete mid year MClass benchmark assessments for the TRC, Dibels, and Daze measures this week. These are one on one tests done to see what growth they have made in oral and written comprehension at the midway point of the year. Results will be sent home with report cards at the end of January.
This week in Math:
Students are continuing a fun and challenging 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. Students will even get really crazy with measuring rectilinear area, where they have to do 2 and 3 step problems to solve. Perimeter is the measurement of the sides AROUND a figure. This is pretty easy with rectangles, but can get hard with irregular figures. Please see tutorials and practice with games as needed. Students will bring home a cheat sheet today to help!
word- rectilinear
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, 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: Understand the earth’s patterns by using the 5 themes of geography: (location, place, human-environment interaction, movement and regions).
3.G.1.1 Find absolute and relative locations of places within the local community and region.
3.G.1.2 Compare the human and physical characteristics of places.
3.G.1.3 Exemplify how people adapt to, change and protect the environment to meet their needs.
3.G.1.4 Explain how the movement of goods, people and ideas impact the community.
3.G.1.5 Summarize the elements (cultural, demographic, economic and geographic) that define regions (community, state, nation and world).
