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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A few dates to remember as we look forward to next week.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Reading – This week in reading we continued to practice the reading strategy of asking questions or wondering while reading. We used the books The Emperor and the Kite by Jane Yolen and A Day's Work by Eve Bunting to practice. Students ask questions about a story only when they can understand what they are reading. It is important that the questions relate to the main action or ideas of the story. It is not helpful to ask questions about minor details. When asking questions, reader seek out the answers. Sometimes the answers are found in the text and sometimes they are not. However, the act of asking questions and seeking answers deepens a reader's comprehension. Vocabulary- This week we learned the words belongings, faint and cling from The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble. Check in with your student about these words and how they were used in the story. Writing – This week we worked on the grammar skill possessive pronouns like my, his, hers, their, etc… We will begin to edit and revise our personal narratives after the holidays. Math – This week in math students focused on strategies to solve 3 digit plus 3 digit problems. We also worked on rounding the exact numbers to get an estimate. For example: 321+189=? My estimate would be 320+190 rounded to the nearest tens or 300+200 rounded to the nearest hundreds. Students should continue to practice rounding to the tens and hundreds place at home as well. We also played a game called Capture 300 to help us with triple digit addition. Ask your student how they were able to play this game. Next week: Reading – Next week we will continue to practice the strategy of wondering and asking questions while reading. Writing – Next week we will continue to look at our personal narratives and revise them to a final draft. Math – Next week we will continue to work on adding, but we’ll also focus on subtracting 3 digit numbers fluently. Continue practicing those multiplication and division facts on Reflexmath.com. Need the login info? Please email your student’s teacher. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
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A few dates to remember as we look forward to next week.
--3nd grade teachers 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. Check in with your student to find out what these books were about, and what they wondered. Vocabulary – This week we learned the words obstinate, immature, mature, fantasize, barricade, and reconsider. These came from the book Alexander, Who’s Not (Do you hear me? I mean it!) Going to Move by Judith Viorst. Ask your student how these words were used in the story and which one was the most interesting to them. Writing – students selected their favorite personal narrative that they had written throughout our unit. This is the piece they will now take through a long revision and editing process to get it ready for publication. This week we focused on using temporal words (like then, next, later) to help the reader understand the order of events in the personal narrative. We also focused on adding more sensory details to make our personal narratives rich and interesting. This week in writing students revised their personal narratives by focusing on opening sentences and endings. Opening sentences should grab a reader with excitement and intrigue. Closings should wrap up the emotions of the story. We also focused on two writing skills which will help students when we start editing next week: possessive pronouns and contractions. Math – This week in math students learned about rounding to the nearest 10 and 100. Next week - Reading – Next week students will continue to practice wondering and asking questions while reading. Writing – Next week we will continue to learn a few writing skills and then begin editing our personal narratives to get ready for publishing. Math – Next week students will explore strategies for addition and subtraction word problems. Wow! What a week in the 2/3 community!
--2/3 teachers 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 Viorst. 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 –We learned reluctant, cluttered, handy whoosh and two idioms "have eyes in the back of your head" and “have a change of heart” from The Raft by John LaMarche. Check in with your student about what this story was about and how the words were used. Writing – This week we focused on grammar skills-Subject and Object Pronouns, Adjectives, Singular vs. Plural Nouns, and Common vs. Proper Nouns. We will continue to encourage students to use these skills in writing, especially publishing. Math – This week in math, students were playing two new games, Close to 100 and Go Collecting. Each game helps our students with strategies for knowing pairs that add up to 100 in Close to 100, and place value in Go Collecting. Next week - Reading – Next week we will begin a new unit on wondering and questioning while reading. Writing – Next week students will begin to publish a personal narrative. Math – Next week students will continue to work on numbers that add up to 100 and rounding. Then, we’ll continue place value using that knowledge to help us add and subtract fluently. |