January 20-23
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: Please make sure your child is practicing multiplication facts for at least 10 minutes a night. Students are working towards mastering their x0-x8 (or higher) multiplication tables by the end of January. We will continue with lessons 20-22 this week.
Reader's Workshop: This week, we will continue our Reader's Workshop practices. 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 use what they learned last week about informational writing and independently write an informational paragraph on Martin Luther King Jr. Please see the sample writing we did together as a class last week in your child's blue folder. This is an example of a "3" grade.
P.E.: Please dress appropriately on Wednesday for P.E. this week.
Social Studies: Students will be learning working on week 26 in Studies Weekly. Week 26 focuses on transportation over time. Students will learn about transportation on land, water, and air. We will learn about how technology has improved transportation over time.
Science: In this lesson, students discuss how offspring can have traits that are like their parents’ traits. Students build on the patterns they observed in fruit flies by reading about parents and offspring of other organisms from Handbook of Traits. This helps students understand that organisms can have traits that are similar to their parents’ traits.
REMINDERS
Return signed Weekly Blue Folder WEDNESDAY, January 21st
Daily 20 reading log due on Friday, with a parent/grown up signature
Sign communicator daily
House Shirts every Thursday
Hawk Spirit Day every Friday
Kindly,
Mrs. Palmer