Weekly Update 4.16.25
By carrievaughan In Uncategorized On April 15, 2025
Be on the Lookout…
- 3rd quarter report cards and work samples went home Friday. Please review and return signed envelopes and emptied white folders.
- Homework tonight will be centered around a story in your childs new Storyworks magazine. I had them write down a suggested pacing (1 activity per day) but the pages that go with the story can be completed at a pace that works for your family. The entire set is due back Monday.
- This week our class will do a Taste Of North Carolina in conjunction with our economics unit in social studies. We will feature several NC entrepreneurs whose businesses grew to some of the largest in the country!
- Mark your calendars! 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!
- There is NO SCHOOL this Friday, April 18th due to a holiday weekend. word-3dayweekend
- If your child “Read Across America” all the way to Hawaii in our March reading challenge you should have received an RSVP link. 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.
