Reading: This week we will be recording audiobooks in class. Your child will be reading aloud an excerpt from a text that they have been practicing for reading fluency. The remainder of the week will be review and re-assessments.
Writing: We are continuing the writing process to write and publish a four paragraph essay on a personal challenge that are working to overcome.
Math: Monday the students will take their first addition and subtraction assessment for this unit. The remainder of the week will focus on adding and subtracting three-digit numbers using number lines.
Social Studies: This week's geography focus is on climate.
Specials:
Monday: Counselor
Tuesday: Art
Wednesday: Music
Thursday: Media
Friday: P.E.
Reading: This week your child's goal is to identify their personal challenges with reading and identify strategies to overcome them. This will be a fun week as we will be making Reading Strategies Bookmarks and begin practicing reading aloud fluency passages for a class audio book.
Writing: Students will be identifying a challenge that they have had to overcome in their lives and strategies they used (or will use) to overcome those challenges. We will be writing an informational four paragraph essay over the next two weeks.
Math: We continue our addition and subtraction unit with three-digit numbers by focusing on strategies of rounding/estimating to determine reasonable answers and the expanded method.
Social Studies: This week's geography focus is on maps and climate.
Specials:
Monday: Counselor
Tuesday: Art
Wednesday: Music
Thursday: Media
Friday: P.E.
Reading: We are moving into our final unit of this EL module. We will begin reading about people who face personal challenges with learning and how those people overcome the challenge. We will begin by reading texts about Booker T. Washington.
Writing: Monday, the students will show what they have learned about informative paragraph writing and complete a writing assessment. The remainder of the week we will be studying adverbs.
Math: Monday, they will take their graphing assessment. Then we will begin a unit on adding and subtraction three-digit numbers that will take us through track out.
Social Studies: This week's geography focus is on absolute and relative location.
Specials:
Monday: Counselor
Tuesday: Art
Wednesday: Music
Thursday: Media
Friday: P.E.
Reading: On Tuesday, the students will work with friends from their expert group country to create a board game to teach other students about the challenges their country faces with learning and how those challenges are overcome. The remainder of the week, we will begin to look at people who face personal challenges with learning.
Writing: The students will use what they learned about their expert group to go through the writing process of writing an informational paragraph about the challenges the country faces with access to books and how they overcame the challenge.
Math: This week's focus is on a short graphing unit. In third grade we study bar and pictographs. We focus more on analyzing and interpreting graphs than on creating them.
Social Studies: We are beginning a new geography unit this week. We will begin by studying our place in the world and identifying our city, state, country and continent.
Specials:
Monday: No School
Tuesday: P.E.
Wednesday: Media
Thursday: Counselor
Friday: P.E.
ELA: This week the students are working collaboratively to become an expert on a specific country's challenges with access to books and learning and the creative ways Liberians have overcome those challenges. They will then use their research to write an informative paragraph to teach others about what they have learned.
Math: This week brings our first multiplication unit to a close. The focus will be on using strategies to solve multiplication story problems with facts of 2, 5, and 10. Their final test will be Thursday. Friday, we will begin a short unit on analyzing and interpreting graphs.
Science: The students will take their human body assessment on Monday. The remainder of the week will be devoted to a choice board to allow them to choose alternative ways to demonstrate their understanding from this unit.
Specials:
Monday: Media
Tuesday: Counselor
Wednesday: Music
Thursday: Art
Friday: Counselor
ELA: This week we will continue to read texts on children around the world who do not have access to books or education. The reading focus will be on rereading closely to identify the lesson/message/moral of a text. In writing, we will be working on writing complete sentences (short constructed responses or SCR) to answer open ended questions. Their first EL test is on Thursday.
Math: We will continue to use arrays, equal groups and repeated addition to solve multiplication story problems. But we are also beginning to build fact fluency with the facts of 2, 5, and 10. This is a great time to begin practicing those facts at home.
Science: This week's focus is on the muscular system.
Specials:
Monday: P.E.
Tuesday: Counselor
Wednesday: Art
Thursday: Music
Friday: Media
ELA: This week we will continue to read texts on children around the world who do not have access to books or education. The reading focus will be on rereading closely to identify the lesson/message/moral of a text. In writing, we will be working on using prefixes and suffixes to build words and writing complete sentences (short constructed responses or SCR) to answer open ended questions.
Math: We will continue to use arrays, equal groups and repeated addition to solve multiplication story problems. The students will take their first math assessment on Thursday.
Science: This week's focus is on the skeletal system.
Specials:
Monday: P.E.
Tuesday: Counselor
Wednesday: Art
Thursday: Music
Friday: Media
ELA: We will introduce our very first EL module this week as we dive into reading books about children around the world who do not have access to books or education. The reading skill focus will be on asking and answering questions to identify the theme/central message/lesson/moral of the story.
Math: Our very first math unit is the foundation for multiplication! While we start off simple, this is the basis for which all third grade math will build on. Our focus for this week will be on equal groups, arrays and repeated addition.
Science: We will begin the week by learning to think of ourselves as scientists and then dive into our first unit on human body systems.
Specials:
Monday: P.E.
Tuesday: Counselor
Wednesday: Art
Thursday: Music
Friday: Media