Weekly Update 11.28.17
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On November 28, 2017
Be on the Lookout for…
- Tuesday folders will NOT come home this week. Look for a folder next week 🙂
- Scholastic Book Orders went home in Tuesday folders last week. These are a great way to motivate your child and spread some holiday cheer! Orders are due Wednesday, December 6th by 4pm. Please use this link and our class code: GPPF6 to purchase!
- It’s almost here! Our class trip to Wonder will be this Sunday, December 3rd in the afternoon. Specific times for Sunday have not been posted yet, but here is the link once they are. I will send a dojo message as soon as times are listed, along with the seat I purchase so you can try to sit near me:) Everyone is welcome! Please message me if you plan to attend however so I can look out for you!
- The Kiwanis Club of Holly Springs visited 3rd graders this morning and gifted each of them with their very own dictionary. How #owlsome is that!?
- Mrs. Vaughan’s Christmas wish list is located here 🙂
This week in Literacy:
Students are reading “The Frog Princess” which is a Tlinget legend from Alaska. Readers will be asked to gather information from illustrations and our focus will be identifying the theme of the story. Theme and main idea are different, and that’s sometimes hard for students to understand! We will also spend class time attacking unfamiliar words using context clues to gather meaning!
This week students will work on a new opinion writing piece-I will model good techniques for persuading others, then students will choose a topic meaningful to them to work on. Some of you parents may be the recipients of these letters!
This week in Math:
Timed multiplication quizzes begin THIS week!! Your child should have an icecream sundae sheet and data table in their agenda to keep track of their successes with these 1 minute timed quizzes. There are 16 questions on each quiz and students pass with a 15/16 or better. If they do NOT pass, there will be a makeup opportunity each Friday during arrival. All quizzes will come home the day they are taken and will be located inside the plastic X sundae page. Please do what you can to help prepare your child for these fun and important assessments! word-multiplication minute
Students are finishing a unit of UNKNOWNS and the PROPERTIES for multiplication (commutative, distributive, and associative) and are continuing 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. Students will begin multiplication fluency challenges after Thanksgiving- stay tuned for more info. There are tons of great resources for this skill- please check some out here in this amazing math review resource organized by skill.
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
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: This quarter we will have fun exploring geography across the world and in our own region. We will study how people use their land and what causes people to change their locations.
| 3.G.1 | Understand the earth’s patterns by using the 5 themes of geography: (location, place, human-environment interaction, movement and regions) |
