In case you were unable to come to our third grade information night about the upcoming Florida Standards Assessment, below you will find some important information about it.
Dates:
English Language Arts
(Reading) Assessment
Thursday,
March 26
Friday,
March 27
Mathematics Assessment
Tuesday,
March 31
Wednesday,
April 1
ELA FSA: Each day, third graders will have an 80
minute session. There will be approximately 56-60 test
items in all. Each session will have 25-30 items. Reading passages may consists of 100-700
words.
MATH FSA: Each day, third grade students will have
an 80 minute session. There will be approximately 60-64 test
items in all. Each session will have 30-32 items.
FSA Achievement Levels:
- FSA levels range from 1 – 5.
- A level 5 is the highest a student can earn.
- A level 3 indicates satisfactory performance.
- Third Grade students must earn a Level 2 on the READING portion to pass the FSA.
- Students who earn a Level 1 in READING will fall under the mandatory retention rule.
Website with additional information: http://www.fsassessments.org
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Don't forget our field trip on Tuesday, February 10th! We will see the play/musical, Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad at the Florida Theatre. This will be a great connection to our informational chapter book, Who Conducted the Underground Railroad? We will eat when we return to school at noon.
Resources this week:
Monday: PE
Tuesday: Field Trip
Wednesday: Early Release
Thursday: ART and Computer Lab
Friday: Music
READING: This week we will be reading 2 informational articles, The Way Home: Microchips for Pets and Don't Mess with Mockingbirds. Our focus will be describing the relationship between a series of steps or scientific ideas in a text and using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause and effect.
An example of a series of steps from one of the articles is below:
We will analyze the relationships between the steps of the procedure and how they are related. Students will need to explain the need for a vet to follow the steps in order, using details from the text.
Please see the tabs above for the vocabulary and spelling for this week!
MATH: This week in Math we will begin our unit on Time Measurement
and Problem Solving. The students will
skip count by 5’s to help them tell time, use a number line to tell time to the
nearest minute, and use a number line to solve word problems. They will solve word problems by adding and
subtracting on a number line and use an analog clock to tell time to the
nearest minute.
Homework:
Monday: Lesson 2
Tuesday: Lesson 3
Wednesday: Lesson 4
Thursday: Lesson 5
SCIENCE: This week in Science the students will be working on their
group science project. They have been
assigned 2 stars to compare and contrast.
The groups are to research and find facts about their particular stars
and create a poster which will include the following information about their
stars. The size, color, brightness, and
a fun fact about their stars.
