Weekly Update 1.30.18
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On January 30, 2018
Be on the Lookout for…
- Tuesday Folders will come home today. Please review your child’s work with them.
- Report Cards will come home this Friday, February 2nd. Please sign and return envelopes only. My plan is to do student led showcase/conferences later in the year with everyone, but if you would like to conference with me before then please let me know and we will schedule a time.
- Included with report cards will be MClass “Home Connect” letters which explain the results of our mid year literacy benchmark assessments.
- THIS FRIDAY- students are encouraged to dress up like the person they have been researching these past few weeks. We will do a Famous Person TeaParty for students only where they mix and mingle in character and sign each others “Facebook Walls”:) See below for more info.
- Next Friday, Feb 9th is an early release day. Students will be dismissed at 1:15.
This week in Literacy:
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.
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.
This week in Math:
Multiplication quizzes will continue this week. Students have the 7’s test Wednesday January 24. Makeups for missed 6’s or any past quizzes (1,2,3,4,5) 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 continuing a fun and challenging unit on Area and Perimeter which puts their multiplication facts, multi step problem solving, and finding unknowns 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. word- rectilinear (fun fact- Mrs. V can’t say this word without laughing :))
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: We are starting a new unit of Changes!
| 3.P.2 | Understand the structure and properties of matter before and after they undergo a change. |
| 3.P.2.1 | Recognize that air is a substance that surrounds us, takes up space and has mass. |
| 3.P.2.2 | Compare solids, liquids, and gases based on their basic properties. |
| 3.P.2.3 | Summarize changes that occur to the observable properties of materials when different degrees of heat are applied to them, such as melting ice or ice cream, boiling water or an egg, or freezing water. |
| 3.P.3.2 | Recognize that energy can be transferred from a warmer object to a cooler one by contact or at a distance and the cooler object gets warmer.** |
