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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