First of all, thank you so much for such a great turn out at Open House! We appreciate you coming to find out about third grade. We will be contacting you soon to set up a conference if you requested one.
Resources this week:
Monday - D: music
Wednesday - A: PE Please bring a water bottle and wear sneakers!
Thursday - B: art
BookFair: Our Fall Book Fair is coming up this week (Sept
15-19). The book fair will be open from 9:00am-2:30pm Monday
thru Friday and Thursday evening from 6-8pm for Family
Night. Students will be visiting the book fair with their class Monday and filling out "wish lists". You may
purchase books from their list by sending in cash or check with your child any day, or
you are welcome to come in anytime during our open hours to browse and/or
purchase.
Please join PTA! The BSE class membership contest is underway. PTA has created a poster in the cafeteria which they will update weekly with standings. The deadline is October 31st...so our class participation percentage on October 31st will determine our class party! They already have a few classes nearing the 50% popcorn party. The next level is 75% (ice cream party), 90% (pizza party), and if a class reaches 100%...it will be a surprise!! PLEASE join if you have not already - $6.
Here is the online form... PTA FORM
Please join PTA! The BSE class membership contest is underway. PTA has created a poster in the cafeteria which they will update weekly with standings. The deadline is October 31st...so our class participation percentage on October 31st will determine our class party! They already have a few classes nearing the 50% popcorn party. The next level is 75% (ice cream party), 90% (pizza party), and if a class reaches 100%...it will be a surprise!! PLEASE join if you have not already - $6.
Here is the online form... PTA FORM
READING: Our standard this week is for students to be able to ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring directly to the text as a basis for the answers. We started annotating as we read Because of Winn-Dixie last week and will continue to do so. We discussed the fact that some answers will be found later in the text and some questions may never be answered. That's okay... all questions are valid and demonstrate thinking and understanding about what is being read.
Here are the question starters we will continue to use as we annotate this week. They are great to use at home also!
Here are the question starters we will continue to use as we annotate this week. They are great to use at home also!
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| Students read with a pencil in hand and annotate questions that come to mind as they read. |
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| An example of annotating as we read. |
FLUENCY: Check out the Fluency tab above! Periodically, I will add a new poem. Reading poetry aloud is a great way to improve your fluency. Practice reading the poem several times to read it smoothly, with expression, and not too fast or too slow!
LANGUAGE: Verbs in the past, present, and future tense. The key to determining the tense is to think about what the sentence is saying and when the action is occurring... in the past, in the present (right now), or in the future.
Click below for online practice with this.
TACKLING TENSES QUIZ
LANGUAGE: Verbs in the past, present, and future tense. The key to determining the tense is to think about what the sentence is saying and when the action is occurring... in the past, in the present (right now), or in the future.
Click below for online practice with this.
TACKLING TENSES QUIZ
WRITING: Students are completing their narrative maps for their "prequel" to Because of Winn-Dixie. This week we will plan our characters in detail by sketching him or her, describing how the character looks, how other characters feel about the character, how the character interacts with others, and how the character acts, feels, and talks. Students will do this for all major characters in their narrative stories.
Students will also decide if the story will be told in the first person - by a character in a story, or in the third person - by a narrator outside of the story.
Finally, we will begin our first drafts of our stories!
Students will also decide if the story will be told in the first person - by a character in a story, or in the third person - by a narrator outside of the story.
Finally, we will begin our first drafts of our stories!
MATH: This week in Math we will focus on solving addition problems
with 2 and 3 digit numbers up to 400 by breaking numbers apart and recombining
them. We will develop strategies for
solving addition problems by focusing on how each strategy starts. We will also find the difference between 2
and 3 digit numbers by using multiples of 100 as a landmark to solve
subtraction problems.
Homework:
Please practice finding numbers on the 1,000 chart and
telling which hundreds chart it is on.
(Remember that each hundreds chart is named by the last number on the
chart.)
Assessment will be on Wednesday.
Monday: Unit 3 pg. 42
Tuesday: Unit 3 pp.
44-45
Wednesday: Unit 3 p. 51
Thursday: Unit 3 p. 53
SCIENCE: This week in Science we will complete our Chapter 1
“Practice of Science” lessons.
We will
begin studying Chapter 3 “Matter and Its Properties”.
