Newsletter

Week of 6/4

Announcements:

• Homework - Read 20 minutes each night. Please make sure your child is meeting their weekly Lexia goal. Pracctice your speech for Living History Museum
• June 5th - End of Year Class Party
• June 6th - Living History Museum
• June 8th - Flag Salute

In the Classroom....

Math:

We will be reviewing multiplicaton, division, addition, and subtraction this week.

Language Arts:

This week, we will continue our Weather and Climate Unit.

Unit: Weather and Climate

Essential Question: How can we predict the unknown?

Story: Earth's Weather and Climate

Vocabulary: factors, precipitation

Week of 5/14

Announcements:

• Homework - Read 20 minutes each night. Please make sure your child is meeting their weekly Lexia goal. Math page is due Friday.
• State Testing - May 7th-May 18th We will be starting the math portion on Monday, May 14th. Testing will begin in the morning and continue until 10:50/recess each day.
• Scholastic Bookfair - May 15th - 18th Sign up here to volunteer: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0c4cabac2aa6f94-spring3

We will be visiting the bookfair as a class on Tuesday morning, May, 15th

In the Classroom....

Math:

We will continue with our Measurement and Geometry unit. This week our focus will be on elapsed time.

Language Arts:

This week, we will be working on our Weather and Climate Unit.

Unit: Weather and Climate

Essential Question: How can we predict the unknown?

Story: Earth's Weather and Climate

Vocabulary: factors, precipitation

Week of 4/23

Announcements:

• Homework - Read 20 minutes each night. Please make sure your child is meeting their weekly Lexia goal. Math page is due Friday.
• Open House - Thursday, April 26th 6-7 pm
• Field trip to Rancho Buena Vista Abobe - May 1st -Permission slip/money is due by Monday, April 23

In the Classroom....

Math:

We will continue with our Measurement and Geometry unit. This week we will work on identifying attributes of geometric shapes, lines and angles.

Language Arts:

This week, we will be working on different genres and elements of poetry, as well as continue with our Communities Unit.

Unit: Communities

Essential Question: What is a community?

Story: Exploring My Community

Vocabulary: unpredictable, grateful, tradition, immigrant, sprawling, diverse

Social Studies - Communities

Week of 3/26

Announcements:

• Homework - Read 20 minutes each night. Please make sure your child is meeting their weekly Lexia goal. Math page is due Friday.
• Wednesday, March 28th - 3rd grade Native American Day. Please check our Native American Day Sign-up to see how you can help!
• March 30th - Flag Salute, last day before spring break!

In the Classroom....

Math:

We will be starting our Measurement and Geometry Unit. The first focus will be on measurement and plotting data on a line plot.

Language Arts:

We still have a bit to do to complete our Author's Study unit. We will then be starting our unit on Communities.

Unit: Communities

Essential Question: What is a community?

Story: Exploring My Community

Vocabulary: unpredictable, grateful, tradition, immigrant, sprawling, diverse

Social Studies - Native Americans

Week of 3/5

Announcements:

• Homework - Read 20 minutes each night. Please make sure your child is meeting their weekly Lexia goal. Math page is due Friday.
• Wednesday March 7th music day - Wear Star Wars
• Monday, March 12th - Class Student Council Representative elections
• Wednesday, March 28th - 3rd grade Native American Day. Please check our Native American Day Sign-up to see how you can help!

In the Classroom....

Math:

We will be continuing to explore fractions this week. We'll be comparing fractons to one half, and finding equivalent fractions. We will also be practicing fractions on a numberline.

Language Arts:

This week, we are continuing with our new unit. We'll review story structure , introduce theme, and compare stories by the same author.

Unit: Author's Study

Story: Various stories by Patricia Polacco

Vocabulary: character, setting, plot, theme, problem, solution

Writing: Informative - Planet Research

Social Studies - Native Americans

Week of 2/12

Announcements:

• Homework - Read 20 minutes each night and complete the math review page (turn in Friday). Please make sure your child is meeting their weekly Lexia goal!
• February 12-16 - Jump Rope for Heart

2/12 Eat less salt! - Wear White

2/13 Eat more fruits and vegetables Wear the color of your faworite fruit or vegatable

2/15 Participate in more physical activity! Wear a Sports shirt/jersey or a jump rope for heart shirt

• February 14 - Optional Valentine/Friendship Card Exchange - If your child chooses to bring in a Valentine for their classmates, we ask that you bring in one for every student (22) and follow our District Wellness Policy :) Here is a Class List of Names
• February 15 - Report Cards go home

PLANET PALOOZA

We started a science project with Mrs. Woodley's class. Students will be working in groups to research a planet, then rewrite the lyrics to a song using the information to teach others about their planet! Stay tuned for performance date and time!

In the Classroom....

Math:

We will be exploring unit fractions this week. Students should be able to divide shapes into equal parts and name the fractions that represent the part.

Language Arts:

This week, we will be continuing our unit on technology. We will also be doing additional reading about our Solar System.

Unit: Advancements in Technology - Parent letter

Essential Question: "What is the value of innovation?"

Story: "Sun Charts: The Secret to Great Gardens"

Vocabulary: established, revolutionary, tecnology, distant, device, innovative, obtain

Writing: Opinion

Week of 1/22

Announcements:

• Homework - Read 20 minutes each night and complete the math review page (turn in Friday). Please make sure your child is meeting their weekly Lexia goal!
• January 25 - Field trip to Cannon Art Gallery
• January 26th - Flag Salute

PLANET PALOOZA

Last week, we started a science project with Mrs. Woodley's class. Students will be working in groups to research a planet, then rewrite the lyrics to a song using the information to teach others about their planet! Stay tuned for performance date and time!

In the Classroom....

Math:

This week we will continue to work on 2-step problems, and writing matching equations. We will also be working on area, connecting it to multiplication. Make sure your child is working on memorizing their multiplication facts to automaticity!

Language Arts:

This week, we will be starting our new unit on technology. We'll be learning about various inventors an technological innovations. Our essential queston is "What is the value of innovation?"

Unit: Advancements in Technology - Parent letter

Story: ALexander Graham Bell "It Talks" and "From Telephone to Facetime"

Vocabulary: established, revolutionary, tecnology, distant

Writing: Opinion

Week of 12/4

Announcements:

• Homework - Read 20 minutes each night and complete the math page (turn in Friday). Please make sure your child is meeting their Lexia goal!
• Hour of Code Week - We wll be looking at different coding opportunities throughour the week. Students are encouraged to continue these activities at home and throughout the year!
• Wednesday, December 13th - Music and Drama performance at 1:10 in room in room 503
• December 13th - School Wide Picture 3rd Grade Wear Green!!!
• December 21st - Flag Salute, Winter Wear Day - Minimum Day

In the Classroom....

Math:

We are continuing to review all concepts for our multiplication and division unit. Students will be taking the unit assessment this week. Homework this week will be a math review. I strongly recommend completing the homework early to make sure they have the extra review opportunity prior to tthe assessment. Students also need to be memorizing their multiplication facts to automaticity.

Language Arts:

This week, students will be reading multiple texts and comparing their point of view with those of the characters.

Unit: Comparing Points of View

This week's stories: "Cinderella, Too Much for Words" ,

Vocabulary: bargain, broad, claims, compose, dashed, detestable, essentially, impulsive, snatched, toil

Writing: Opinion

Week of 11/6

Announcements:

• Homework - Read 20 minutes each night and complete the math page (turn in Friday) Please make sure your child is meeting their Lexia goal!
• November 13th-17th - Garden Week
• November 16th - Boosterthon Fun Run
• Dash for a Cure - November 19th

In the Classroom....

Math:

We are continuing to explore the relationshipo between multiplication and division, as well as solving word problems. We'll be working on different strategies for solving division problems.

Language Arts:

We'll be working on comparing and contrasting two texts this week. Students took a practice Benchmark assessment quiz on Friday, and we'll take another quiz htis week in preparation for the District Interim Assessment the following week.

Unit: Animal Adaptations

This week's story: "Can Plants Talk?"

Vocabulary: environment, survive, detect, determines, excess, exterior, moist, shed, durable

Spelling: r controlled vowels (-er -ir -ur)

Language: Complete and compound sentences

Writing: Informative

Week of 10/16

Announcements:

• Homework - Read 20 minutes each night and complete the math page (turn in Friday)

In the Classroom....

Math:

We are continuing to explore multiplication concepts. We'll be looking at equal groups of things, arrays, and creating story problems for repeated addition and multiplication sentences. Ex. "John reads 6 pages a night, how many pages does John read in 3 nights?"

Language Arts:

We're learning how to use text features to help us comprehend informational text. We will be continuing with Animal Adaptations. Students have selected an animal to research. We are learning about research tools and strategies to gather information. If students choose to, they may bring in additional resources (articles, books, etc.) from home to add to their research materialas. The focus is on the aniamals habitat, diet , and adaptations.

Unit: Animal Adaptations

This week's story: "One Body, Many Adaptations"

Vocabulary: environment, survive, detect, determines, excess, exterior

Spelling: Closed syllables

Language: Complete and compound sentences

Writing: Informative

Week of 9/25

Announcements:

• Homework - Read 20 minutes each night and complete the math page (turn in Friday)
• Costume Exchange is September 25th-29th for drop off and shopping will take place on October 6th.
• Walk to School Day is October 4th. Join the fun and walk to school.
• Book Fair is coming October 9th-12th.
• Monster Bash is Friday, October 13th 6-9pm.

In the Classroom....

Math:

We are focusing on surveys, data, and graphing this week. Students will work in groups to conduct their own surveys and represent the data on a variety of graphs. We'll continue to review rounding, addition, and subtraction.

Language Arts:

We'll review concepts from our first unit, including characterization, different types of folktales (myth, fable, legend, fairy tale), context clues, etc.

This week's story is "The Ballad of Mulan" and fables.

Vocabulary: mutter, ancient, wealth, strolled, declared, frail, harsh, endured, triumphant, swift Students have expert guides in their binder.

Language: Complete and compound sentences

Writing: Narrative

Week of 9/5

Announcements:

• Homework - Read 20 minutes each night and complete the math page (turn in Friday)
• We are asking students to bring in a favorite picture book (no chapter books) for a project we'll be doing on story structure.
• Wednesdays are college spirit days! Wear your favorite college gear!!
• Fridays are SEES spirit wear days!
• Thank you to everyone who has donated supplies to our classroom, they are very much appreciated!!

In the classroom....

Math:

• We are continuing to work on place value and rounding this week. We want students to be able to think about numbers flexibly. For example: 239 could be represented by 2 hundereds, 3 tens, and 9 ones OR 1 hundred 13 tens, and 9 ones. Give your child a number and see how many ways they can represent it.

Language Arts:

Our focus is on Close Reading and ACEing short answer questions . Click on the links for more information. We are also woriking on story structure (setting, plot, characters etc.) as well as character analysis. This week's story is King Midas. Students and families can access it through Benchmark using their Clever login.

Language:

Nouns, adjectives, similes

Writing:

Reviewing parts of a paragraph and the writing process.