Hi everyone,
I hope you are all enjoying this chilly November weekend! Here are some things to look forward to this week:
Remote Work: Please help your child to remember to put their completed remote work into their Take Home Folder to return to school. I do collect these assignments, check off if they're completed, and provide feedback to students using them. This week, students will bring home:
Walking Stick Survival recording sheet (Day 1 Remote Work)
a word study packet with new pattern words and a sorting mat (Day 1 Remote Work-- Must Do and Submit)
Kindness Challenge Day 3 Recording Sheet (Day 1 Remote Work)
a double sided math practice page (Day 2 Remote Work-- Must Do and Submit)
Social Studies: Getting Involved (Day 2 Remote Work-- Must Do and Submit)
Double Sided Math Page (Wednesday Zoom)
There are additional online assignments linked to the remote schedule that your child should complete. Be sure to check your child's Take Home Folder when they come home from school to read my feedback on their turned-in assignments.
Next Week: Please note that all students will be fully remote next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (the week of Thanksgiving). I will be teaching live via Zoom during these days and will send students home with the materials they'll need for those days this week, in addition to the remote work students will complete this week. I will be sure to clearly differentiate between the two packets of work.
Here's a peek into what we did in third grade last week:
Math: Students created a set of multiplication cards that they will use to practice multiplication fact fluency. At this point in third grade, students should be fluent with 2s, 5s, and 10s facts. They will eventually use these facts as "helper facts" to find the products of unknown multiplication equations. Students also learned a new game called Count and Compare. Here's a link to play online!
Writing: Students learned about different ways to incorporate a storyteller's voice into their writing. They also had an opportunity to see the benchmarks for third grade writers and to set goals to help them meet those.
Reading: Students practiced asking questions about the author's purpose in the books they're reading and also studied different character traits. Students will continue practicing writing about their reading using evidence from the text.
Science: Students began studying the structures of our class crayfish and the functions of those structures.
That's all for now! Have a great day!
Ms. McLellan