Weekly Update 11.19 and 11.26
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On November 19, 2019
This update will cover the next 2 weeks 🙂
Be on the Lookout for…
- Tuesday folders come home today and include student work samples. Please focus on how your child is connecting multiplication and division strategies. This has been a trouble area for many students. I am doing all I can here at school to address this, but you reworking problems and forcing your child to use a strategy (chat sheet with all of them is in agendas) will help immensely.
- Our extra credit reading incentive Readvolution, sponsored by the Carolina Hurricanes will be ending soon. Please do all you can to help your child reach their goal by Dec 6th.
- Report Cards came home recently. Please return signed report card envelopes ASAP.
- Student Ambassadors are holding a Food Drive for Community Members in Need from November 18-22. The box will be located outside student support office.They are collecting canned pasta and canned soup.
This week in Literacy:
Students will also write their second opinion writing piece from the perspective of a turkey who does NOT want you to eat him at Thanksgiving this year! Stay tuned for some creative and hilarious pleas using the awesome App Chatterkid! word- chatterkid
Students are continuing with the chapter book, The Year of Miss Agnes. We will identify character traits and how these impact story events. We will also dive into point of view and main idea. Students have learned a lot about the Allakaket Alaskan region already and will continue to apply their knowledge in reading and social studies these next few weeks. Check out this awesome map which shows the actual locations mentioned in the story, and photos which display some of the topics covered in this book. Students will make one of these maps in social studies this week!!
This week in Math:
Students are working with multiplication and division strategies for the next several weeks. Starting tomorrow, students will continue with specific fact practice with the goal of fact fluency. We are reviewing the strategies used in multiplication (Number line, repeated addition, skip counting, arrays, and equal groups drawings) and will also cover unknowns and the PROPERTIES for multiplication (commutative, distributive, and associative). We will continue to solve MULTI STEP addition, subtraction, multiplication and division through number lines, arrays, visual models, and more! Multiplication/division will be the MAJOR focus on 2nd quarter. Memorization of facts is an expectation come January! May as well start prepping now! There are tons of great resources for this skill- please check some out here in this amazing math review resource organized by skill.
This quarter 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. |
