Weekly Update 3.12.19
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On March 11, 2019
Be on the Lookout for…
- Tuesday Folders will NOT come home today. Look for a full folder next week.
- We have a Camp Flintlock field trip THIS Friday, March 15. Thank you to Ms. Watson, Ms. Wilson, and Ms. Jackson for volunteering. If I missed your name and you’d like to help from 9:15-1:30 or you can no longer help us, please notify me!
- Here is a checklist to help your child have a great experience:
- Check the weather; wear appropriate clothing.
- If the day is expected to be hot then pack a water bottle.
- Have them bring a small bag or backpack to carry items they expect to make and/or purchase
- Watch the 5 minute field trip video at http://www.campflintlock.com/pages/fieldtrips/fieldtrips.html
- Discuss what is appropriate for your child to spend at the Camp Store. We have over 100 items (no candy or food). Dollar Items (Arrowheads, Writing Quills, Buffalo Teeth, Lucky Rabbit Feet), Writing Supplies (Ink $3, $5 and $8 per bottle), Silk Fans and Sandalwood Fans ($3), Silk Parasols ($8 each), Musical Instruments (Flutes $3, Tin Whistles $10, Fifes $12 and $19, Drumsticks $5 a pair), Furs (Daniel Boone Coon Hats $10, Fox Tails $6 & $12, Rabbit Furs $10), Games (Cup and Ball $5, Graces $23), Flint and Steel Kits ($16) For a more complete listing of our merchandise and pictures use this link http://www.campflintlock.com/pages/store/store.html. word-field trip
This week in Literacy:
Students are finishing nonfiction with the fascinating and exciting text, Living Through a Natural Disaster. It features true stories of Cyclone Tracy, Huang He River flooding, and El Nino. Personal accounts, amazing photos, diagrams, and complex text make this been really “eye” opening 🙂
They are also turning their new country research into travel brochure, 3 paragraph essay, detailed beautiful picture page and eventually a part of a PUBLISHED book! More details on that to come. You are going to be amazed what your child can do!
Our class will also be participating in a book March Madness contest in school. We have matched up 16 books we will read this month and will vote almost daily on Google Forms for which books we like best. It will come down to the Elite 8, then Final 4, then final 2 and eventually we will have a book champ!
This week in Math:
Multiplication quizzes will continue this week. Students have makeups and mixed quizzes every Tuesday and Thursday for the rest of this month. PLEASE do what you can to help students learn these facts quickly. They are expected to answer 16 in a minute, or for mixed to continually make growth on their goal. Fluency is key!
Our celebratory Multiplication Master ice cream sundae party will be Friday, April 5th at 1:o0. We are in need of 2 icecream scoopers and supplies. Students will submit their “ticket” to see how many scoops and toppings they have earned over the past few months. Please see sign up genius link for ways you can make this party a huge success.
Students are continuing a lengthy, but exciting Fractions unit. Lots of vocab is important in understanding this concept. Here is a parent guide for helping you and your student understand our main learning outcomes
Current vocab: numerator, denominator, unit fraction, partition, number line, visual model
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, area, perimeter, rectilinear area, 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 (and next) quarter in Science: Students will begin rotating between myself and my across the hall cohort for science to prepare them for how 4th and 5th grade structures this time block. You may receive science materials home from another teacher- this is NOT a mistake 🙂
Soil and Plants with Ms. Vaughan: every Mon and Tues
3.L.2 Understand how plants survive in their environments.
Changes with Ms. Fuenzalida: every Wed and Thurs
3.P.2 Understand the structure and properties of matter before and after they undergo a change.
