Weekly Update 12.13.16
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On December 13, 2016
Be on the Lookout for…
- Tuesday Folders will not come home today, but please review the orange sheet from the PTA.
- Interims went home on Friday. Please sign and return these forms if you haven’t already.
- We are celebrating the countdown to Winter Break by having a dress up spirit day each day until we get out. Please join us for the following days: Tuesday December 13: Favorite holiday color Wednesday December 14: Favorite holiday sweater or T-shirt Thursday December 15: Holiday bling Friday December 16: Roll up those jeans and show off your holiday socks! Monday December 19: Cozy up and read the day away. Tuesday December 20: Holiday hats/antlers/gear Wednesday December 21: School spirit celebrating last day of 2016 with our owls! word-HappyOwlidays
- 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 taking a break from literature to focus on nonfiction text and text features. This week we are reading “City Homes” and will begin a longer unit called “Deep Down”.
Spelling RETESTS on the “100 Words You Need to Know” continue this FRIDAY, December 16th. This quiz is for GROUP THREE 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.
This week in Math:
Students are working primarily with rounding (a review) 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. Memorization of facts is not the goal (YET…) rather, I want to ensure students know when and WHY multiplication should be used. There are tons of great resources for this skill- please check some out here in this amazing math review resource organized by skill.
We will also begin a graphing unit this week that will carry over into 2017!
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 Science: Students are studying objects in the sky and will conduct research and experiments to help understand the following objectives:
| 3.E.1 | Recognize the major components and patterns observed in the Earth/Moon/Sun system. |
| 3.E.2 | Compare the structures of the Earth’s surface using models or three-dimensional diagrams. |
| 4.E.1 | Explain the causes of day and night and phases of the moon. |
