Week of November 16th

 

Personal Message

As a 3rd grade team, we feel face-to-face instruction is very important! We love teaching your student! Cases are increases drastically in our area. and yet we know our students are having many play dates on half-days and in the evenings. Please remember that being in school provides your child with not only an education but also the social interactions and social-emotional learning that you want for your student. During this pandemic, we would love for you to allow the school to be your child's social time and time outside of school for you to be together as a family. It could make the difference in keeping us at school vs. remote learning. We know you are fatigued but we have to do our part for a while longer. Please let us know if we can help in any way.

Important Dates

November 25-27th-No school, Thanksgiving Break

                                                                

Multiplication Facts

 Students will be writing flashcards for each multiplication fact. It is important to note that students will need to bring their flashcards back and forth from home and school. Please have the 0's,1's, and 2's memorized by Monday. Next week will work on 10's! Remember, harder facts will come later so this is a great time to build your child's self-esteem and confidence with math facts. Let them know they are AMAZING right now and they are doing GREAT!

We would greatly appreciate donations of note-cards (3 by 5) for all three classes!

Reminders

• Students need to bring their water bottles every day.
• Students need to bring a snack every day.
• We are good on extra snacks right now--thank you so very much for your donations!

What We Learned This Week

In Language Arts, we read the book 'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving. Students worked with this fiction text to find cause and effect and the sequence of events.

Students have been continuing their personal narrative writing! Students have brainstormed ideas as well as feelings to write about for their personal narrative. They will complete a graphic organizer, write a rough draft, and publish this writing by the end of the unit!

Math was focused on continued practice of multiplication and division! Students worked with word problems to equally share different objects. We have practiced creating arrays for both multiplication and division now. We also finished our WINN cycle for elapsed time and reassessed. 

                                                                                                                                                              

If you are looking for extra practice opportunities, here are some choices on IXL:

Multiplication:   3rd Grade, F1, F2, H6,

Division:   3rd Grade, Section I, Activities 1-5

Elapsed Time:  3rd Grade, Section T, Activities 1-8 (finish the section for a challenge!)

Place Value:  3rd Grade, Section B, Activities 1-9 (6 will be a challenge!)

Addition:   3rd Grade, Section C, Activities 1, 2, 6, 9, 12, 15, 16

Subtraction:   3rd Grade, Section D, Activities 1, 2, 6, 7

Rounding:   3rd Grade, Section P, Activities 1, 2, 3, 5, 8

*Please ask your child to show you ConnectEd. There are some great games for additional practice!

                                                                                                                                                              

Students will have their Unit 2 test for Social Studies on Friday (Monday for Mrs. Covert's class). Please review the study guide and practice Kahoot!

No Science this week 

Word Study Next Week

*No word study due to the short week

Week of November 9th

 

Personal Message

As a 3rd grade team, we feel face-to-face instruction is very important! We love teaching your student! Cases are increases drastically in our area. and yet we know our students are having many play dates on half-days and in the evenings. Please remember that being in school provides your child with not only an education but also the social interactions and social-emotional learning that you want for your student. During this pandemic, we would love for you to allow the school to be your child's social time and time outside of school for you to be together as a family. It could make the difference in keeping us at school vs. remote learning. We know you are fatigued but we have to do our part for a while longer. Please let us know if we can help in any way.

Important Dates

November 20: Half day - End of First Trimester

                                                                                                                                

Multiplication Facts

We are beginning our multiplication fact work! Students will be writing flashcards for each multiplication fact. It is important to note that students will need to bring their flashcards back and forth from home and school. Please have the 0's and 1's memorized by Monday. Next week will work on 2's! Remember, harder facts will come later so this is a great time to build your child's self-esteem and confidence with math facts. Let them know they are AMAZING right now and they are doing GREAT!

We would greatly appreciate donations of notecards (3 by 5) for all three classes!

Reminders

• Students need to bring their water bottles every day.
• Students need to bring a snack every day.
• We are good on extra snacks right now--thank you so very much for your donations!

What We Learned This Week

In Language Arts, we read the book I'm Delighted to Learn about Turkeys. Students worked with this non-fiction text to find text evidence, labeling parts of a turkey, and write why turkeys are eaten at Thanksgiving! This non-fiction text pairs with next week's story: 'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving.

Students have been continuing their personal narrative writing! Students have brainstormed ideas as well as feelings to write about for their personal narrative. They will complete a graphic organizer, write a rough draft, and publish this writing by the end of the unit!

Math was focused on multiplication and division! Students worked with word problems to equally share different objects. This week all three 3rd grade classes divided up to work on time and elapsed time for Math WINN (What I Need Now) instead of Math Workshop.

                                                                                                                                                              

If you are looking for extra practice opportunities, here are some choices on IXL:

Multiplication:   3rd Grade, F1, F2, H6,

Division:   3rd Grade, Section I, Activities 1-5

Elapsed Time:  3rd Grade, Section T, Activities 1-8 (finish the section for a challenge!)

Place Value:  3rd Grade, Section B, Activities 1-9 (6 will be a challenge!)

Addition:   3rd Grade, Section C, Activities 1, 2, 6, 9, 12, 15, 16

Subtraction:   3rd Grade, Section D, Activities 1, 2, 6, 7

Rounding:   3rd Grade, Section P, Activities 1, 2, 3, 5, 8

                                                                                                                                                              

Students had their 5 Themes of Geography test. Our next steps for Social Studies are Chapter 2 which focuses on Michigan's first people and how their lives changed when Europeans arrived.

No Science this week due to finishing up the Social Studies unit and half-days.

Word study focused on different plural endings of words. Students worked with words that ended in "-s," "-es," and "-ies."

 Next week's word study can be found below!

Word Study Next Week

Here is what your student will need to know how to spell for next week Friday (the 20th):

scarves, firemen, deer, lives, children

Week of November 2nd

 

Book Fair - Virtual

The book fair this year will be held virtually. Your student came home with flyers on how to access the Book Fair last week and another reminder note today. We have also posted the link on our Google Classrooms. When you have a chance, have your student show you how they can get to Google Classroom to view the Book Fair! 

Important Dates

November 12: Half-day - Parent/Teacher Conferences
November 13: Half-day - Parent/Teacher Conferences
November 20: Half day - End of First Trimester

Reminders

• Students need to bring their water bottles every day.
• Students need to bring a snack every day.
• We are good on extra snacks right now--thank you so very much for your donations!

What We Learned This Week

In Language Arts, we read the book What If You Had Animal Teeth? Students worked with this non-fiction book to work on the difference between fact and opinion. Also, students worked with a Venn Diagram to talk about the differences and similarities between animal teeth from the book. Then, they transformed their Venn Diagram into paragraphs! Students also worked on finding the main idea and details. This book pairs with the fictional book from last week, Stellaluna. 

Students have been continuing their personal narrative writing! Students have brainstormed ideas as well as feelings to write about for their personal narrative. They will complete a graphic organizer, write a rough draft, and publish this writing by the end of the unit!

Math was focused on finishing up our Time unit and beginning our new unit: Multiplication and Division! During Math Workshop, students engaged in various math games to practice skills learned during whole group lessons and participated in additional instruction with teachers.

If you are looking for extra practice opportunities, here are some choices on IXL:

Elapsed Time:  3rd Grade, Section T, Activities 1-8 (finish the section for a challenge!)

Place Value:  3rd Grade, Section B, Activities 1-9 (6 will be a challenge!)

Addition:   3rd Grade, Section C, Activities 1, 2, 6, 9, 12, 15, 16

Subtraction:   3rd Grade, Section D, Activities 1, 2, 6, 7

Rounding:   3rd Grade, Section P, Activities 1, 2, 3, 5, 8

We have started our new Social Studies unit which is focused on the 5 Themes of Geography! Students are learning about movement, place, location, regions, and human/environment interaction. The test will be on Tuesday, November 10!

No Science this week due to the new Social Studies unit.

Word study focused on unusual past tense words. Students sorted words based on past and present tense and if vowels changed or it went from long to short vowels.

 Next week's word study can be found below!

Word Study Next Week

Here is what your student will need to know how to spell for next week Friday (the 13th):

minutes, stories, pennies, lunches