Weekly Update 3.3.20
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On March 2, 2020
Be on the Lookout for…
- 3rd quarter interim reports will come home today. Please review and return.
- Students participated in a Taste of NC today. Thank you to all who donated items to make this a success!
- I hope you will be able to join us for the 3rd grade Children Around the World concert THIS Wednesday March 4th at 1:00 in the gym. Please be sure you allot ample time to park and checked into the building!
- Mrs. Vaughan will be out Thurs and Fri this week. I’ll be attending and presenting at the NCTIES conference in Raleigh. Ms. Baddick will be our sub both days and will be checking Dojo.
- 5th grade is collecting donations for a student project to benefit homeless in our area. Visit this link to get more information on what is needed to help this cause.
- We have a Camp Flintlock field trip Friday, March 13. This is an ON CAMPUS field trip. If you would like to volunteer to chaperone and help with a station that day, please message me. You would be needed from 9:00-1:30 that day.
This week in Literacy:
This week we will have a variety of mystery readers to share a book with the class. Thank you to my volunteers. If you’d like to be a mystery reader in the future please let me know!
Please be on the lookout for these 2 reading incentives located in your child’s agenda.
1) Reading passport- Students have until April 3rd to “Read Across America”. Each 20 minutes of reading equals a new state stamped by me in class on their passport. If they reach the goal of 1000 minutes by the deadline, they will be invited to an afterschool Luau to celebrate their reading stamina! All YOU have to do parents is acknowledge the reading titles and minutes each night at the bottom of agendas. Students are of course encouraged to read over weekends too:) word-readingrocks
2) Dr Seuss Reading Bingo- students can earn a prize sheet as a reward for completing 15 of these activities over the course of the month. These can be used simultaneously as they earn reading minutes!
Thank you for supporting your child as we push them to be voracious readers with improved reading stamina!
We will read a tale from around the world to connect our perspective to others in the story “On the Same Day in March”.
We will continue learning about a selected country of your child’s choice to use as we compare and contrast NC/USA traditions and culture to those from other parts of the world. If you have a family member for your child to interview, or any momentos from this country please utilize to best help your child (and our class) see new cultures!
This week in Math:
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
Timed multiplication quizzes continue week!! We will take 10’s on Tuesday and makeups Wednesday the 4th. There will be no quizzes Thurs and Fri this week to Mrs. V being out.
Our celebratory Multiplication Master ice cream sundae party will be Thursday, April 2nd at 2:30. Your child’s goal is to have ALL facts mastered on or before this date. 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. Stay tuned for a signup next week!
Your child should have an icecream sundae sheet 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!
This quarter in Social Studies: Our current unit is: Culture and History
3.H.1 Understand how events, individuals and ideas have influenced the history of local and regional communities.
3.H.2 Use historical thinking skills to understand the context of events, people and places.
3.C.1 Understand how diverse cultures are visible in local and regional communities.
