Weekly Update 1.3.16
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On January 3, 2017
Happy 2017! Be on the Lookout for…
- Tuesday Folders will NOT come home today.
- Students will have NO school Mon, Jan 16 (MLK holiday) and Fri, Jan 27 (Teacher Workday). There is an early release day Fri, Jan 20 @1:15.
- Would you like to receive a weekly update as to what your students have checked out from the library? With so much reading going on- classroom libraries, public libraries, and the school library it can be hard to keep track of what’s what! If you’re interested in this email update, please complete this link. Emails will come out on Saturday mornings.
This week in Literacy:
Students are continuing to focus on nonfiction text and text features. We are reading “Deep Down”, a nonfiction text about extreme places where groups of people live. These aligns wonderfully with our new social studies unit about geography!
Spelling RETESTS on the “100 Words You Need to Know” continue FRIDAY, January 6th. This quiz is for GROUP FOUR 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 undergo mid year MClass benchmark assessments for the TRC, Dibels, and Daze measures this week and next 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.
This week in Math:
Students are beginning a fun and challenging unit on Area (and soon 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!
word- square units
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).
3.G.1.6 Compare various regions according to their characteristics.
