Weekly Update 1.23.18
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On January 23, 2018
Be on the Lookout for…
- Tuesday Folders will NOT come home today, but you may receive an envelope with information from the ITBS test in your child’s agenda. Please refer any questions regarding that test to our AIG teacher Kim Holland, kholland5@wcpss.net
- 2nd quarter now ends this Thursday and 3rd quarter begins Friday the 26th. Hence all the tests below:
- End of Quarter 2 math assessment- Wed, Jan 24. End of Human Body unit assessment- Thurs, Jan 25. Please see study guides that went home with students Monday for focus.
This week in Literacy:
Students will receive a fresh new text collection, and begin our study with the story “Knots on a Counting Rope”, a touching story about a Native American boy working through his struggle of blindness with the help of his grandfather. Our focus is on the theme/central message of the story which is a tricky concept for most 3rd graders, but is prevalent in this text.
Students have completed mid year MClass benchmark assessments for the TRC, Dibels, and Daze! Woohoo!! Results will be shared with report cards which come home in early February.
Students have chosen their famous person to focus on for the upcoming student Famous Person Teaparty on Friday, February 2nd. They will complete research and digital projects in class, but feel free to let the fun continue at home. Students will be expected to look and act like the person they have chosen, so please do what you can to help with this. Please DO NOT spend a bunch of money on this. Handmade or re-purposed items to resemble their person are plenty. The focus will be on their mannerisms and research! The Ducksters site and the Brainpop site will be our primary resources if you want to access from home. word-biographies
This week in Math:
Multiplication quizzes will continue this week. Students have the 6’s test Wednesday January 24. Makeups for missed 5’s or any past quizzes (1,2,3,4) 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 beginning 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. Please see tutorials and practice with games as needed. Students will bring home a cheat sheet today to help!
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 week in Science:
| 3.L.1 | Understand human body systems and how they are essential for life: protection, movement, and support. |
| 3.L.1.1 | Compare the difference 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. |
