Weekly Update 4.23.25
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On April 23, 2025
Be on the Lookout…
- TOMORROW IS THE BIG DAY! On April 24th, Oakview will host the Spring Fling which features the 3rd grade Food Truck Rodeo! If you have not already, please fill out this RSVP form ASAP!
- You may want to bring chairs or blankets to tomorrows event!
- If your 3rd grader has a sibling at Oakview, tomorrow they have options for dismissal. They can either go home like normal and return with you at 4:30, or they can remain in their classrooms until “All Owls Out” call at the end of carpool and come to my room at that time. Please communicate with me and with the siblings teachers about your dismissal plan. word-AllOwlsOut
- 3rd graders will take their last math NC CheckIn tomorrow. Please ensure students are on time and have a charged Chromebook if they take it home.
- If your child “Read Across America” all the way to Hawaii in our March reading challenge you should have received an RSVP link a few weeks back. This event is Monday April 28th right afterschool. Please let me know if you have any questions.
This week in Literacy:
In Module 4 we will explore the impact of water around the world! Find out standards, goals, and more by clicking this link to the parent information letter.
This week in Math:
We are on our last remaining unit of our math curriculum 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. I know I had to refresh myself on some of these, so hopefully this makes things easier!
Here is a parent guide for helping you and your student understand our main learning outcomes
Current vocab: capacity, gallon, quart, pint, cup, weight, mass, ounce, pound, ton
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, inch, foot, yard, mile, measure, length, width.
This week in Social Studies:
3.E.1 Understand how economic decisions and resources affect the local economy. 3.E.1.1 Explain how entrepreneurship develops local communities. 3.E.1.2 Explain how the natural resources of a region impact the production and consumption of goods in local communities. 3.E.1.3 Summarize the role supply and demand plays in local economies.
