Weekly Update 4.23.19
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On April 22, 2019
Be on the Lookout for…
- Field Day is Tuesday, April 23rd for our class. We will participate in events in the 2nd half of the day. Please make sure your child is dressed for the event and has sunscreen applied and a water bottle.
- Tuesday Folders will come home today, but no more student work samples will come home until the last few weeks of school. Students need to hold onto samples to prepare for student led conferences (coming towards the end of May). If you need to see any specific work samples in that time, you are welcome to swing by and have a look!
- Please return signed report card envelopes ASAP!
- Spring Conferences are coming up soon! ALL STUDENTS should have a parent signed up to hear their student led conference and reflections Please visit this link to see information and reserve a time.
- Believe it or not, the end of the year is approaching. Once testing is over I try to create a week of carefree, no stress, fun events for the students but I need your help. Please visit this link to see what events we have on tap and how you can donate time or materials to make it a huge success!!
- MARK YOUR CALENDARS with EOG dates for your 3rd grader. The READING EOG will be Wed May 29th. The MATH EOG will be Thurs May 30th. Any makeups will be conducted in the week following. It is vital that students are at school on time, well-rested, and well-fed on these days. Thank you for your attention to this.
This week in Literacy:
Students will read the historical fiction text “Back of the Bus” and next week will be working through “Brave Girl” as we look at how character actions define them and change the course of the story. Both stories connect to social studies topics we have researched this year, Civil Rights and Immigration!
This week in Math:
The last remaining unit of our math curriculum begins this week with some more measurement concepts. Students will learn about US Customary measurement of length (in, ft, yd, mile), capacity (cup, pint, quart, gallon), and weight (oz, lb, ton). To assist parents in helping their kids I have included a guide to these standards in Tuesday folders this week. I know I had to refresh myself on some of these, so hopefully this makes things easier! word-measurement
Here is a parent guide for helping you and your student understand our main learning outcomes
Current vocab: hour, minute, elapsed time, interval, quarter till, quarter after
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, numerator, denominator, unit fraction, partition, number line, visual model
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.
