3rd Grade Weekly Newsletter
Each newsletter describes what your child has been learning in school, what they will be learning the following week, and homework assignments your child will be receiving.
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Each newsletter describes what your child has been learning in school, what they will be learning the following week, and homework assignments your child will be receiving.
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It has been another busy week in the 2/3 community!
--2/3 teachers Reading – This week in reading we continued our reading of the book The Raft by Jim LaMarche. Students recorded inferences about the main character at the beginning of the story and at the end. We talked about what caused the character to change throughout the book. The problems he faced and how he solved them let to a change in his feelings. Students also worked to make inferences in their own reading about the characters in the stories. Partners talked to each other about the inferences they made while reading independently. In addition, we talked about why setting is important in a book. Chat with your student about the setting of this book, and what their favorite part was. Vocabulary – This week students learned the words particularly, speechless, realize, savory, cross, and reunite from the book Boundless Grace. Ask your student which word is most interesting to them, and how each word was used in the story. Writing – This week in writing students heard a few more personal narratives. These were written by young children and described lessons they learned through incidents in their lives such as the first day of school and facing a challenge. Students wrote their own personal narratives and worked to incorporate sensory details to help the reader understand what is happening. Students also worked to incorporate a "lesson" through a personal narrative, to show the reader something they learned in the incident. Math – This week in math students took a Quarter 1 math assessment on the computer to gauge their learning from our first two units of Investigations Math. We began Unit 3 , where students learned a new game, "Capture 5" in which students add and subtract with numbers to capture their partners chips. Talk with your student about how many chips they captured when we played in class. Next week - Reading - Next week students will continue to make inferences about characters both in shared reading and independent reading. Writing – Next week students will choose one personal narrative they have written in this unit to take through the revision and editing process. Eventually this piece will be published. Math – Next week students will continue to practice adding and subtracting within 100, and moving up to 300.
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Wow! We had an amazing week in the 2/3 community!
--2/3 teachers Reading – This week in reading we focused on how a character changes from the beginning to the end of a story. We studied Grace, the main character in the books Boundless Grace and Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman. Students continued to make inferences about Grace compared and contrasted both books. Vocabulary – This week we learned the words dazzle, quiver, and command from the book Julius, The Baby of the World by Kevin Henkes. Writing – This week in writing we are working to learn about and write our own personal narratives. Students heard several examples of personal narratives and are working on their own. Students are including sensory details to make their writing more interesting and vivid. Students have written about chores, their home, a favorite memory or doing something special with a loved one. Eventually, students will be publishing one of these pieces in the next few weeks. Math – This week in math students wrapped this unit on Data Collection, and we’ll be moving into Unit 3, which focuses on solving story problems. Next week - Reading – Next week we will continue to make inferences about characters in our reading. Writing – Next week we will continue to explore and practice writing personal narratives. Math – Next week we will continue to work on strate What an amazing week in the 2/3 community!
Oct. 9-13 Reading – This week in reading students continued to practice making inferences about characters through our work with the book Julius, The Baby of the World. The main character, Lilly, changed greatly from the beginning of the book to the end. We studied why and how she changed. The author writes clues for us to do this work and we talked together as we decided about how and why Lilly changed. Students helped make a character web to record the characteristics of Lilly. Then students worked to make inferences in their own independent reading books. Vocabulary – We learned the words fierce, magnificent, and ungrateful from the book The Paper Bag Princess. We also learned the words doubtful, nifty, and ghastly from the book Julius, The Baby of the World. Writing – We started our next unit, which will focus on the genre of personal narrative (true stories that have actually happened to the author). We read the books Grandma's Records and Our House to see examples of this to help students get ideas. Students will all be working to write personal narratives during this unit. Math – This week we looked at pictographs and how this is another way to represent data. We also began collecting data by using measurements of our feet and distance of blowing a block across the table. Next week - Reading – Next week students will continue to practice making inferences with a new text, Boundless Grace. Writing – Next week we will continue to explore personal narratives by working to include sensory details. Math – Next week we continue our work in this unit on collecting data using measurement. It has been another busy week in the 2/3 Community!
This week: Reading – This week students practiced making inferences about a character with the books The Paper Bag Princess and Julius, the Baby of the World. We talked about how all characters face problems and work to solve them. We learn about the characters by understanding their actions as they face and solve problems. Often an author gives us clues about a character through their actions and dialogue. When we understand a character well we can predict what he/she will do. This is the power of inferences. In addition, we’ve begun our first round of data collection in reading called Curriculum Based Measurements. Students took a reading vocabulary test as well as a comprehension test. These data gives us a baseline measurement of your student’s progress in comprehension and vocabulary. Vocabulary - We learned the words disaster, celebration, and retrieve from the book Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Too!). We also learned the words unfortunate, fortunate, and immense from the book The Paper Bag Princess. Writing – This week students worked hard to publish and share their first pieces. You will see these later in the year. Students also learned a few more writing skills: complete vs. incomplete sentences, complex and compound sentences. Math – This week students continued to analyze data and come up with questions to ask a group. They represented their data using bar graphs and also analyzed double bar graphs this week. Next week - Reading – Next week students will make character webs to help them make inferences. Writing – Next week we will finish up our publishing and share our work. Then, we’ll begin our next unit on personal narrative. Math – Next week students will continue to look at data and analyze the results. |