Week of October 25

 

💙 Fall Harvest Party 💛

Thank you to everyone who helped make our Fall Harvest Parties a success! We appreciate all that you did to give the third graders a great party. :)

💙 What We Learned This Week 💛

💙Language Arts: This week, we focused on the book Stellaluna. Students created a flipbook with activities surrounding the skills of compare and contrast, retelling, vocabulary, point of view, and beginning, middle, and end. 

💛Writing: Students finalized their personal narratives and turned them in for grading. We look forward to reading all of their work! 

💙Math: We are continuing with Unit 2 which is area and multiplication. Students worked to find the area of a rectangle on a grid and draw a rectangle on a grid, using the multiplication expression given. We will continue on with Unit 2 this upcoming week. 

💛Science:  We will be pausing our Science lessons as we have finished the first unit: Power of Flowers. Science resumes after the section of Social Studies that we have started.

💙Social Studies:  We began getting into the 5 Themes of Geography this week (MR. HELP) and connecting them to Michigan. We will continue to work on it this upcoming week. 

*Be sure to check in with your child regarding the completion of independent reading books and book reports. If you have questions, this is a great topic to discuss at conferences.

Word Study

Next week's word study is introducing how to properly add -s, -es, and -ies to words (Plural Endings). Please remember that there are spelling words to practice each week. The amount of words varies each week between 3 - 5 words. 

This week's words will be:

minutes, lunches, stories, pennies

💙 IXL Practice 💛

As we complete standards through our math program, we will update you on skills that students can practice at home through IXL

Graphing Skills: 3rd Grade U.5, U.6, U.7, U.8, U.12, U.13

Multiplication Skills: 3rd Grade E.1, E.2, E.3, F.1, F.2, F.3, F.6, F.11, G.1

Area: 3rd Grade DD6, DD7, DD8, DD9, DD10, DD11, DD12, DD15

(more advanced area skills to come later)

3rd Grade Necessities...

• WE ARE HAVING MANY KIDS FORGET SNACKS. Please help them to pack the night before. They should be bringing a snack and water bottle each day. *The office has a limited amount of snacks for emergency purposes.

• make your student's lunch choice for the week

• set aside reading time at least 5 days a week

• Check your child's blue take-home folder daily. Look for papers being returned for home, notes from school, homework assignments, etc.

• read the blog each Friday.