Weekly Update 3.19.19
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On March 19, 2019
Be on the Lookout for…
- Tuesday Folders will come home today. Please review samples.
- Next week students will take their end of 3rd quarter math test (Wed 3/27) and reading test (Thurs 3/28).
- Friday March 29th is Teacher Work Day and there is no school for students.
- The Oakview Fun Run is here!! I hope your child has come home excited and ready to support their school. Many of them may be coming home with prizes today! I wanted to give you an update on our class’s progress! Our class has reached $44 on our Pledge O Meter. We think we can make it even further to help our school!Our class also earned a 5 minute dance party, No HW night, 10 min of extra recess, crazy hair day, lunch in the classroom and we are close to a popcorn party! word-funrun
- If you haven’t yet registered your student on funrun.com, don’t worry, there’s still time to do it! Plus, once you’re registered, you’ll find lots of fun, easy ways to reach out to sponsors like our Easy Emailer, Facebook Share button, or even the Student Star Video! Thank you for your support of our school!
- The actual Oakview Fun Run is next Tuesday the 26th at 9:30. If you plan to attend please let me know! We will have lunch in the classroom that day so please no lunch bunch.
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 will turn their written news reports into an actual video recording in front of the green screen. Some of them may even end up on the Whoooo News!
Students are spending this week and next week practicing a reading skill called Notice and Note to make us deeper thinkers and overall better readers. We will read a different story each day and decide which notice and note skills we are using.
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.
