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