Week of September 9th-13th

Open house will be this week on Thursday, September 12th from 6:15-6:45 and then a second session from 6:45-7:15.  Mrs. Kluge and I will be talking together about the curriculum, and classroom expectations.  Please plan on attending.

Also, on Thursday will be a volunteer orientation.  If you would like to be a volunteer at BSE and be more involved, plan on attending the volunteer orientation at 8:30 in the media center.

Wednesday, Sept. 11th is our first early release, dismissal will begin at 1:45.

Resources/Events:

Tiberio:
Monday- Art
Wednesday- Early Release
Thursday- Open House/P.E. (wear tennis shoes)

Kluge:
Tuesday- Art
Wednesday- Early Release
Thursday- Open House
Friday- P.E. (wear tennis shoes)

Math:

We have finished our discussions about place value and will begin working on rounding.  In third grade students will be asked to round numbers to the nearest hundred thousands place.  We will start with basic rounding to the nearest 10, 100, and 1,000 place.  We will also discussing adding and subtracting larger numbers.

We will also begin math centers this week!  The centers for this week will be a review of place value, we want to continue to reinforce past skills during center time.

One of our strategies we will use to remember how to round numbers. :)

Science:

We will be using our inference skills this week during science.  We will discuss why scientists observe and infer when conducting experiments.  We will have a short open book/open note quiz on chapter 1 on Friday.

Reading and Social Studies:

I am so excited about this week. We will begin our first of four third grade novel studies. Our first novel is the much loved Charlotte's Web. Although it is familiar to many, we will read it in a whole new way. Before we begin reading, we will take an in depth look at the story's setting, the Zuckerman's farm in the state of Maine. We will incorporate social studies by studying about the weather, climate, and geography of Maine as compared to Florida. As we learn about the setting, we will talk about informational text and how we read it differently because of informational text features.

Another focus throughout the reading of Charlotte's Web will be character development. As we look at the characters, we will think about their motives, actions, and feelings. We will distinguish between the feelings of a character and how their actions show what kind of person they are on the inside.

We will read Charlotte's Web together in class. Each student will have a copy in class, but the books will not come home. The book is a tool to guide our instruction of reading strategies and skills. Everyone will continue reading their personal chapter books during independent reading and at home.

By the way... our RAH logs looked much better this week! Thank you!