January 12-16
Hello Parents and Students,
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Benchmark Reading Tests: Prior to Winter Break, the Benchmark tests and questions were read aloud to all students to help them get used to the format and types of questions on these tests. Now that we are about halfway through 3rd grade, students will be reading the tests and questions independently. Please encourage your student through this learning curve as they become more independent in their reading skills. That being said, it is okay if your student's scores are lower than usual as they get used to this transition. Please continue to review your child's Benchmark test with them when they return home with it graded.
OUR WEEK AT A GLANCE
Math: This week we will be continuing module 3. Please make sure your child is practicing multiplication facts for at least 10 minutes a night. Students are working towards mastering their multiplication tables by the end of January. We will be focusing on lessons 16, 17, and 19. The next math test will be on Friday. A study guide will come home on Thursday to help students prepare.
Reader's Workshop: This week, we will continue getting back into our Reader's Workshop practices. As a refresher, these stations include small groups with the teacher, reading to self, responding to reading, writing, word work, and technology. We will continue unit 5 in Benchmark where we will be answering the essential question: what is the value of innovation? Students will be taking a benchmark test on Friday.
Writer's Workshop: Students will begin Informational writing this week. Students will learn how to gather information about their topic, cite sources using text evidence, and use proper resources. This week students will be researching and writing about Thomas Edison.
P.E.: Please dress appropriately on Monday P.E. every week.
Dance: Dance lessons will continue this week on Friday.
Social Studies: We will be working on week 25 which is all about how produce from farms gets to be sold at the market through processing and transportation.
Science: To make sense of the patterns in traits they have observed in the wolves, students investigate a new organism—fruit flies. Students make observations about the traits of parents and offspring in different fruit fly families and begin to notice patterns in the fruit fly family data.
REMINDERS
Return signed Weekly Blue Folder Tuesday, January 13th
Daily 20 reading log due on Friday, with a parent/grown up signature
Sign communicator daily
House Shirts every Thursday
Western Day is this Friday
Kindly,
Mrs. Palmer