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February 22nd, 2024

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Dear parents,

Third graders have been engaged in their essay writing assignments. They have been building strong claims about characters in their books. We are soon preparing for our debates!

In Math, we recently began Unit 5. In this Unit, students will practice multiplication and division and they will be finding area and perimeter.

Please remember to read with your child every day for 30 minutes.

Here is a tool to help your child with their reading: Character Traits List

Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks

English Literacy

Learning Goal

Using Debate to rehearse and strengthen arguments about characters.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Writers will use flash debate protocols to rehearse and strengthen arguments about characters in different stories. Students will be using their book club books for the debate. They can also use any other short text that they've studied. They will be doing a lot of this work with collaboration from their book club.

What readers & writers could be doing at home...

Steps for mini debate -- predictable debating questions

Spanish Literacy

Learning Goal

Publicación de poemas

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Los escritores revisarán, editarán y publicarán sus poemas. También se prepararán para su celebración de escritura.

What readers & writers could be doing at home...

En casa los escritores pueden revisar, corregir y publicar sus poemas. Practicar el poema: Del Trópico.

Mathematics

Learning Goal

What mathematicians are doing at school...

What mathematicians could be doing at home...

Science or Social Studies

Learning Goal

What tigers are doing at school...

Complete a two-column chart that describes the location of the world’s people in terms of population density. Students will explore location using IT.

What tigers could be doing at home...

Social Emotional Learning Program

Learning Goal

Friends and Learners will think about how the environment shapes how we communicate. We will write a conversation that is respectful of environment and consider how a change in the environment can cause a change in the conversation.

What friends and learners are doing at school...

Friends and learners will understand how Communication Boosters and Bloopers occur in different environments so they make choices that help them and others communicate.

Think about their environment, the people they are with and the place they are in, when they communicate.

Pay attention to my environment so that I can communicate respectfully and show others that I care about them and their thoughts.