Weekly Update 4.26.22
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On April 26, 2022
Be on the lookout for…
- Tuesday folders will come home today. Please look through work samples and discuss with your child what areas of success or room for improvement you notice.
- There is a teacher workday Monday, May 2nd. No school for students that day.
- Due to the upcoming teacher appreciation week, several of you have asked if our class has any items we need. I updated our Amazon wishlist for things that have been depleted and some literature we’d love to have. Thank you!
- Please mark your calendars for our 3rd grade Food Truck Rodeo/Oakview spring chorus concert. More details will be coming forth, but THURS MAY 19th, students will be asked to stay afterschool as apart of our economics project presentations. Families will be invited to join their students in our classroom, and then enjoy the 4 food trucks that will be here. You are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, towels, etc to post up on the lawn and enjoy the DJ and concert!
- We will do more math and reading review over the next several weeks in order to revisit some past concepts and ensure we are ready for end of grade testing. You will notice reading passages coming home with “PARTY at the top. Please remind students to actually apply this reading strategy when reading for best performance! Acronym sheets are taped in their agendas from last week. I also am attaching a reminder here. word- party
P– preview and predict
A– analyze the questions and underline key words
R– read the passage
T– take out bogus answers
Y– yellow(highlight) or underline
the text evidence(proof)
- Our class will do EOG testing on the following days: Reading- Fri May 27 and Math- Wed June 1st.
- Order your yearbook here!
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:
The last remaining unit of our math curriculum continues 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. 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
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.
