Wilder Word for the Month of September: Belonging
Noun; a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements; due regard for the feelings, wishes, rights, or traditions of others
"Be somebody, who makes everybody feel like a somebody. " -Kid President
Third-Grade In-Focus Social-Emotional Learning:
Monday - Roses and Thorns
Tuesday - Student Ability Survey and Focusing on Random Acts of Kindness
Wednesday - Discovering the Domino Effect of Caring Acts
Thursday - Making Mistakes
Friday - Encouraging Risk Taking
Literacy:
Module: Let Freedom Ring!
Essential Question: How do historic places, documents, and symbols represent our nation?
Social and Emotional Learning: Responsible Decision-Making
Social Studies Connection: U.S. History
Vocabulary
Big Idea Words: loyal, sovereignty, democracy, civic
Critical Vocabulary: ferry, monument, inspired, torch, sculptor
Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues
Generative Vocabulary: Suffixes -y, -ly
Spiral Review: Prefix dis-
Reading
Main Idea (Central Idea) and Supporting Details
Foundational Skills
Decoding: Review Short Vowels and Long Vowels
Spelling: More Short Vowels and Long Vowels
Fluency: Expression
Communication
Speaking and Listening: Create a Multimedia Presentation
Make Connections
Grammar
Complex Sentences
Writing Workshop
Personal Narrative
This Week's Text Selections
Informational Text (Teacher Read-Aloud): Patriotic Tunes
Narrative Nonfiction: Why is the Statue of Liberty Green?
0fef3c85-6dc5-4c4f-9afb-9bf680a1bd5d.pdfMath:
Patterns
As mathematicians in Unit Four of Reveal Math, starting in grade three, we begin to delve into a variety of multiplication problems. In the previous unit, we were introduced to multiplication and division representations.
In this unit, we discover patterns in products involving the numbers zero, one, two, five, and 10. Products of two have zero, two, four, six, or eight in the ones place. Products of five have either a five or zero in the ones place. Products of 10 have a zero in the ones place. When multiplying by one, the product is the same as the other factor, and when a number is multiplied by zero, the product is always zero. Knowing about patterns can help us determine whether a product is reasonable or accurate.
Multiplication Representations
We use varying methods and representations to remember multiplication with the factors two, five, and 10. We relate multiplying by two as doubling or twice as much. We also refer back to what we have previously learned about equal groups and repeated addition. In order to connect multiplication and addition, doubling can be thought of as adding two equal groups. To multiply by five, we use arrays, with rows of five. We also skip count to multiply by 10. A multiplication fact table is also used to find patterns in the products that can help us recall multiplication facts.
Family Letter_ Use Patterns to Multiply by 0, 1, 2, 5, and 10.pdfClick below for Reveal Math Student Practice Workbook Answers:
Unit Five...Coming Coon!
Social Studies:
As historians, we will use geographic tools to develop spatial thinking skills. Specifically, we will:
Read and interpret information from geographic tools and formulate geographic questions.
Locate oceans and continents, major countries, bodies of water, mountains, urban areas, the state of Colorado, and neighboring states on maps.
Describe the natural and man-made features of a specific area on a map.
Identify geography-based problems and examine the ways that people have tried to solve them.