We have 2 more weeks until Winter Break. Our last day of 2015 will be December 18. School will resume on Monday, January 4, 2016.
The Media Center is sponsoring a Gingerbread House Contest December 7 - 17. Students are invited to bring a gingerbread house made from edible or non-edible materials. Entries need to be turned in to the Media Center and need to include the student's name, grade, and homeroom teacher. This can be a family project. The grand prize is a gift card to Barnes and Noble!
The PTA Holiday Shop will be December 14 - 18.
Our Holiday Party will be Thursday, December 17!
We will send home an invitation on Monday!
Our IMAX field trip will be Friday, December 18.
We will see 2 movies: Flight of the Butterflies... about the amazing migration of the Monarch butterfly and also Galapagos, filmed in one of the most hard to reach places in the world - the Galapagos Islands, islands that are filled with very rare and unique plant and animal species. Lunch is included and the choices are on the back of the field trip forms. Field trip permission slips are due Tuesday, December 8.
Cox:
Monday: PE
Tuesday: Computer Lab
Wednesday: Art
Friday: Music
Kluge:
Monday: Music
Tuesday: PE
Wednesday: Computer Lab
Thursday: Art
ELA: There will be no spelling this week. One of our third grade language standards is to know how to write an address correctly. On Monday, students will bring home a sheet to practice this during the week. It is due FRIDAY. Students will need to know their own address also. We will have a quiz on Friday.
We will continue our study of different types of frogs, their different habitats and the adaptations they have which enable them to survive in those habitats. We will look closely at text features and determine why the author used them to help the reader understand the topic. Text features are very important in informational text as they support the reader in learning about more complex content. The pages below from our current text show headings, bold words, close-up photographs, and detailed captions explaining the photographs.
habitat dweller amplify gaps canopies
hatch transparent rain forest blend
These words are excellent ways to start conversation at home about what we are reading about in class this week!
MATH: This week in math the students will interpret the unknown in multiplication and division to model and solve problems using units of 6 and 7. They will continue to learn about parentheses as tools for grouping and learn the conventional order for performing operations. We will begin to focus on the associative property of multiplication. The students will model how to compose and decompose to make problems using units up to 8 easier to solve.
For example:
8 x 5 = (4 x 2) x 5
= 4 x (2x5)
= 4 x 10
The students will use
patterns learned in previous lessons (5 + n) as a strategy for solving
multiplication and division problems using units of 8 with the distributive
property. They will learn that multiples
of 8 can be thought of as (5+3) x n. In
division problems the students will continue decomposing the dividend to solve
and recognize that the dividend must be decomposed into numbers that are
divisible by the divisor.
For example:
64 ÷ 8 =
decompose 64 to 40 and
24 because both numbers are divisible by 8
64 ÷ 8 = (40 ÷ 8) + (24 ÷ 8)
= 5
+ 3
64 ÷ 8 = 8
Homework:
Module 3 Lesson 7
Module 3 Lesson 8
Module 3 Lesson 9
Module 3 Lesson 10
Things to practice and review at home:
Practice adding and subtracting numbers within 1000.
Tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time
intervals in minutes.
Continue practicing multiplication facts 2 to 10
Continue practicing division facts
Please check out our DCPS site http://www.duvalschools.org/Page/17284
for homework help and strategies to help with solving
homework problems. You may also find the
homework videos helpful.
Math Videos:
Module 3 Lesson 6:
Module 3 Lesson 7:
Module 3 Lesson 8:
Module 3 Lesson 9:
Module 3 Lesson 10:
