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October 11th, 2024

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Dear Third Grade Parents,

Our writers began writing baby literary essays. In this unit, the students will learn to structure an essay by organizing their thinking and using evidence from the story to support their opinion or claim. Also, our writers will discover that essayists raise the level of their essays by including summaries or exact lines from the text as evidence.

Mathematicians worked on problem strings together and they extended their understanding of multiplication. They had so much fun learning about the coral reef ecosystem by using a small clownfish to measure how much longer, and taller other reef species are when compared with the clownfish.

We feel proud that our tigers participated in the chess tournament. Congratulations way to go tigers!!!

Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks

English Literacy

Learning Goal

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Our writers will choose their favorite essays, and they will share their essays during a celebration. The third graders will give each other positive feedback. The students will learn that writers often collaborate to come up with ideas about character traits, character change, and lessons characters learn. Essayists carefully select an idea that they can effectively support with strong evidence.

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

Baby Lit Essay-Sentence Starters.pdf

Our Big Bold Opinions- Chart..pdf

When Writing a Literary Essay-AnchorChart.pdf

Spanish Literacy

Learning Goal

Idea principal en un texto.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Los lectores leerán textos informativos e identificarán la idea principal con los detalles de apoyo. También explicarán y enseñarán a otros como encontrar la idea principal.

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

En casa los lectores pueden leer textos informativos y escribir sobre lo que el autor enseña con el texto.

Mathematics

Learning Goal

Mathematicians will be exposed to multiplication in different contexts, inviting them to think of the operation in different ways.

What mathematicians are doing at school...

Students examine arrays that will facilitate repeated addition and skip counting that in turn encourages multiplicative strategies like doubling, proportional relationships and partial products.

What mathematicians could be doing at home...

Work Places Loops & Groups Home Connections:

Monday Oct 14 pg 25 & 26

Thursday Oct 17 pg 27 & 28

Friday Oct 18 pg 29 & 30.

Science or Social Studies

Learning Goal

What tigers are doing at school...

We will be wrapping this unit with these conceptual inquiries...What does it mean to respect someone’s culture?

How can we show appreciation for cultural differences?

Why is it important to learn about and understand cultures different from our own?

Also, we will be exploring the different African Masks, purpose, symbols, and meaning.

What tigers could be doing at home...

Try eating different food from different cultures, study different arts from different cultures, and research on different traditional games from different cultures.