Weekly Update 5.1.18
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On May 1, 2018
Be on the Lookout for…
- Please mark your calendars, student led parent-teacher conferences will be held the week of May 21-25th. Students will spend time reflecting on their work from the whole year, goal setting for EOG’s and 4th grade, and sharing some of their favorite pieces. Please plan for at least 1 parent to attend, free of siblings if possible so the focus can remain on your 3rd grader. Sign up slots are listed here. Please RSVP 🙂
- Mark Your Calendars- EOG Dates! These are right before and right after Memorial Day, which I know is inconvenient but unavoidable this year. It is SOOOOOOO important your child is present for the test so they can take it with ME, in THEIR classroom, in an environment they are familiar with. If they are late or absent, these conditions cannot be guaranteed. Friday, May 25th Grade 3 Reading and Tuesday, May 29th Grade 3 Math
This week in Literacy:
Students are having a blast working through “Below Deck: A Titanic Story” this week as we expand our knowledge of this historical event. This story connects to the Immigration content we covered earlier this year, and defines usual heroes in the form of another young female who was brave. Students will complete and turn in a virtual scavenger hunt to discover fascinating tidbits! word- “unsinkable”
This week in Math:
Students are discovering the metric units for capacity (Liters vs milliliters) and mass (grams vs kilograms). Please help students make real world connections at home or in the grocery store with these measurements!
Here is a parent guide for helping you and your student understand our main learning outcomes
Current vocab: liter, milliliter, gram, kilogram, metric
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, hour, minute, elapsed time, interval, quarter till, quarter after
A year long “Scope and Sequence” which lays out our math curriculum pacing for the year
