Week of January 4

 

Important Dates

January 13 - Late Start

January 20 - Late Start

January 28 - Half Day

January 29 - Half Day

Multiplication Facts

*MEMORIZE 3's THIS WEEK

 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.  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!

Reminders

• Students need to bring their water bottles every day.
• Students need to bring a snack every day.
• If you are able to donate snacks (preferably individually wrapped goldfish or pretzels) that would be greatly appreciated!

What We Learned This Week

In Language Arts, we completed work around the book The Mitten. Students worked through the vocabulary in the story as well as determined the causes and effects that were present. Additionally, students wrote about the problem and solution of the story and the overall theme.

Math was focused on our new unit: measurement and data. Students will be receiving instruction in all three classrooms over the course of this unit. They will be learning about mass (weight, kilograms, grams), volume (liters, milliliters), and U.S. customary units. Students will be engaging in hands-on lessons to learn!

This week in Social Studies we began Chapter 3 and started learning about the first explorers to make their way to Michigan. Students will learn about specific explorers and how certain towns/cities were started in Michigan!

No Science this week.

Extra Math Practice

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!

Word Study Next Week

These are the words your student needs to know for Friday, January 15:

nation, planet, reason

Week of December 14

 

School will resume on January 4, 2021. 

Enjoy the break and stay safe!

Word Study When We Return

These are the words your student needs to know for Friday, January 8:

legal, driver, insect, chapter

Week of December 7

 

Personal Message

As you are well aware, COVID numbers are up drastically in our area. Brown school has gone to remote learning through December 18th. At this time, we ask that you are extra vigilant when your child is sick or exposed--even if it is not typical COVID symptoms. We are able to post daily assignments online for your student when absent.

Holiday Party

Please use this link Holiday Party to sign up to supply our Holiday parties! We appreciate your help in making this party fun for the third graders!

Important Dates

December 16 - Late Start

December 21 - Winter Break begins

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.  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!

Reminders

• Students need to bring their water bottles every day.
• Students need to bring a snack every day.
• If you are able to donate snacks (preferably individually wrapped goldfish or pretzels) that would be greatly appreciated!

What We Learned This Week

In Language Arts, we finished doing work around Jumanji and started reading Zathura. Students worked with this fiction text to define character traits, learn about plot, and work on summarizing without giving away too many details. We will work on comparing and contrasting these two books.

Math was focused on continuing to practice multiplication and division! Students learned multiple strategies to use when it comes to solving multiplication and division problems. They have also been learning about helper facts for multiplication and division!

                                                                                                                                                              

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!

                                                                                                                                                              

No Social Studies this week.

Science was focused on our unit, Animals Through Time. Students learned about selection and how humans have used selection to create smaller dogs. Students have been engaging in fun experiments throughout this unit!

Word Study Next Week

These are the words your student needs to know for Friday, December 18:

legal, driver, insect, chapter

Week of November 30

 

Personal Message

As you are well aware, COVID numbers are up drastically in our area. Brown school has gone to remote learning through December 11th. At this time, we ask that you are extra vigilant when your child is sick or exposed--even if it is not typical COVID symptoms. We are able to post daily assignments online for your student when absent.

Important Dates

December 9 - Late Start

December 16 - Late Start

December 21 - Winter Break begins

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. Next week will work on multiplication squares! (2 x 2, 3 x 3, 4 x 4, up to 10 x 10). 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.
• If you are able to donate snacks (preferably individually wrapped goldfish or pretzels) that would be greatly appreciated!

What We Learned This Week

In Language Arts, we read the book Jumanji. Students worked with this fiction text to define character traits, learn about plot, and work on summarizing without giving away too many details.

Math was focused on continuing to practice multiplication and division! Students learned the strategies of add-a-group and subtract-a-group with arrays. They have also been learning about helper facts for multiplication and division!

                                                                                                                                                              

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!

                                                                                                                                                              

No Social Studies this week.

Science was focused on our new unit, Animals Through Time. Students learned about different types of fossils and the different layers that can be found under the ground. They have also have learned about dinosaurs and how scientists determined what they looked like on the outside as well as what they would have eaten based on their skulls and teeth. Today they were able to try outrunning a dinosaur!

Word Study Next Week

These are the words your student needs to know for Friday, December 11: 

summer, mammal, paper, moment

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