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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AA few dates to remember as we look forward to next week.
--2/3 teachers This week - Reading – This week in reading we started a new unit focused on a new reading strategy: wondering/questioning. Good readers ask questions as they read. They ask questions about what is happening in the text and also about why the author made different choices. Readers look for answers to these questions, and sometimes they are found in the text and sometimes they are not. The two books we used this week to introduce and practice this new strategy are: The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble and The Emperor and the Kite by Jane Yolen. Vocabulary – This week we learned the words obstinate, mature, immature, fantasize, barricade, and reconsider from the book Alexander, Who’s Not (Do You Hear Me) And I Mean It Going To Move. Writing – – This week in writing students edited their personal narratives for spelling and run on sentences. Then they copied over their drafts for a clean final version, ready for publication. Students shared their pieces in the Author's Chair, which is an important speaking skill. Everyone learned from each other and asked questions and gave compliments. Math – This week in math we worked to find the difference between two numbers in stories which asked for "how many more" would someone need to equal the same amount as someone else. This can be solved either as an addition problem or a subtraction problem. Students were jumping up or down on a number line or using equations to do the same to solve these problems. We also looked at finding the difference between two amounts with questions such as, "Who has more? How many more?" We talked about how there are three different types of subtraction problems: missing part, removal, and comparison. No matter which kind students are working on they should visualize what is happening in the problem and this will help them know how to solve it. Next week - Reading – Next week students will continue to practice wondering and asking questions while reading. Writing – Next week we will do another writing performance task together. Math – Next week students will finish the unit on adding and subtracting up to 3-digit numbers. Homework: Monday: math page 81 Tuesday: math page 83 Wednesday: math page 2 Thursday: math page 7
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A few dates to remember as we look forward to next week.
This week Reading – This week we wrapped up our unit on making inferences with one more book for practice: Alexander, Who's Not (Do you hear me? I mean it!) Going to Move by Judith Voirst. Students worked to make a double-entry journal about Alexander to study how and why he changes from the beginning of the book to the end. Students also worked in their own reading to examine how characters are solving problems and how readers can infer about characters while they solve problems. Vocabulary – This week we learned handy, whoosh, and “have a change of heart” from The Raft. Writing – This week in writing we studied the skills of contractions as well as how to write addresses correctly. Students also wrote about Thanksgiving for fun. This week we revised and editing our personal narratives to get them ready for publication. Students worked with partners to support each other's work. All students share the responsibility of helping to make their partner's piece as strong and interesting as possible. We have worked on the social skill of offering suggestions in a respectful way. Math – This week in math students focused on drawing representations for comparison and missing part problems. Traditionally, these are considered subtraction problems. However, if you really understand the relationships between the numbers you can add up from the smaller amount to the larger amount to find the difference and this is usually more comfortable for students. Students are using number lines to represent these actions and find these solutions. Next week - Reading – Next week we will begin a new unit on wondering and questioning while reading. Writing – Next week students will continue to work to get their pieces ready to publish. Math – Next week students will continue to work on finding the difference between 2- and 3-digit numbers and 100. Homework: Monday – math page 63 , Tuesday – math page 66, Wednesday – math page 69, Thursday - 74
A few dates to remember as we look forward to next week.
--2/3 teachers This week - 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 led 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. We also read the book Alexander, Who’s Not (Do You Hear Me) Going To Move to help us continue to discuss inferences. Vocabulary – This week students learned the words reluctant, cluttered, and the idiom “have eyes in the back of your head” from the book The Raft. Writing – This week in writing we studied strong opening and closing sentences to personal narratives. We reread some books we have used to explore this genre to get ideas. Then students worked to revise their own opening and closing sentences. We also started a skills study session beginning with possessive pronouns. Math – This week in math students continued to work on solving addition problems with 3-digit numbers. They also began to work on finding the difference between 2-digit and 3-digit numbers and 100. Students worked on distance riddles which allow them to visualize the difference in distances on car trips. Distance problems can be solved either with addition or subtraction. You can add up from the lower value to the higher to find the distance in between. Or you can subtract the lower value from the higher value to find the distance in between. It is important that students understand the relationship. You can support your child by help them to draw number lines to help visualize the relationships. Next week - Reading - Next week students will continue to make inferences about characters both in shared reading and independent reading. Writing – Next week we will study a few more writing skills before we publish our personal narratives. Math – Next week students will continue to practice adding and subtracting with 3-digit numbers. Homework – Monday: math page 56 , Tuesday: math page 60 , Wednesday: math page 61 |