Mark Your Calendars!

• 11/24 to 12/19 - Winter MAP Testing Window 

• 11/26 to 11/28 - No School Thanksgiving Break

• 12/5 - SDL Magnet Program Tour & Info Session @ 8:30

• 12/9 1:00 PM - Suzuki Recital 🎻

• 12/12  - Mental Health Fair

• 12/17 - Kindergarten/12th Gr Nutcracker Field Trip 🩰

• 12/18 - 1st Gr Science Center Field Trip 🧬

• 12/22 to 1/2 - Winter Break

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Jenna & Cheri

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In ELA, students continue to reflect on where the sun and moon appear in the sky and what happens when the sun and moon are at different places in the sky in Module 2: Unit 3.  Students also closely view images and videos of urban, suburban, and rural areas at night and during the day to strengthen their schema around what the sun might “see.” Students work with one another to draft a class narrative poem titled “What the Moon Sees,” which describes the moon, its position, and what is happening with animals and people during that time of night.

In math, students begin exploring the structure of the base-ten system and the idea of place value as they work with teen numbers in Unit 3: Section B.  They will use double ten frames to add and subtract teen numbers.  Students will also  encounter a new problem type—Take From, Change Unknown—in which the number that needs to be subtracted to get a difference is unknown.

Eriauna & Jennifer

Dear 2nd Grade Families,

We are beginning the final unit of EL Module 2 Fossils Tell of Earth’s Changes.Students will use their knowledge about paleontologists they have studied to write a compelling narrative about discovering a fossil. Students will be sharing these with you once they are finished. We will be sure to let you know when they are going home!

Ms. Mayra & Ms. Susan

Reading: Module 2, Unit 3 Using Writing to Inform: Freaky Frog Text

In this unit, students research and write an essay about a unique frog species, applying their knowledge of the research process and informational writing. The unit culminates in students revising their essays based on feedback and compiling their work into a final book about "freaky frogs".

Math: Third Grade Unit 3: Wrapping up Addition & Subtraction Within 1,000

Andrew and Samantha

 In Math, students are exploring large numbers. They begin by using base-ten blocks and diagrams to build, read, write, and represent whole numbers beyond 1,000. Students see that the value of the digit in a place represents ten times the value of the same digit in the place to its right. Then, they will compare, round, and order numbers through 1,000,000. They also use place-value reasoning to add and subtract numbers within 1,000,000 using the standard algorithm.

    In ELA, students will apply their animal research to write a choose-your-own adventure narrative. They will  take their piece through the drafting, revision, and editing processes.

    In Social Studies, students will continue exploring how geography and the environment shaped the development of North American societies. They first investigate what made these societies complex by analyzing how geography, settlement, trade, social organization, and cultural expression influenced Indigenous life. Students then examine how the environment shaped culture more directly by studying Coyote stories, the Iroquois longhouse, and the role of the bison in Arapaho culture. 

    In Science, students will continue to answer the essential question, "How do the structures of an organism allow it to survive in its environment?" Students will experience that organisms have a variety of observable structures that support survival, growth, and reproduction. Students use their observations to construct an argument that demonstrates a deeper understanding of how structures support an organism's survival.

Christie & Jamie

ELA:

We will be starting a new unit in December. The essential questions that we will be focusing on and answering are: Why do scientists study the rainforest? AND What can we do to help the rainforest?

We will be reading the Most Beautiful Roof in the World and various articles about the rainforest and preparing the students to create a personal narrative and other writing pieces. Language is a huge focus for this module, so we will be working on figurative language, concrete details, and sensory details. In addition to these topics, we are going to be exploring text structure and how a summary changes based on the text structure of the passage that was read. We are wrapping all our Esperanza work before Thanksgiving Break and grades will filter in that next week, so please be on the lookout. 

Math: We will be in Unit 4. In this unit, students multiply multi-digit whole numbers, using the standard algorithm, and begin working toward end-of-grade expectations for fluency. They also find whole-number quotients, with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors.

This is the link for family support.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u__MmRmmKc5XAkJTer_yvgLxsREnukYs/view

Science: We are still working on Weather on Earth. Our essential question is; How much water can be found in different places on Earth? We will be studying the water cycle and how it works in each of Earth’s spheres.

Social Studies: We will be studying what motivated Britain to start colonizing. We will look at the relationship between the colonists and the Native Americans. We will discuss and study Roanoke, Jamestown and the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Tyler & Randy