Our Boosterthon Fun Run drive will continue this week. Thank you to all families for your support and help in working to achieve our school goal!!
Upcoming events: 10/14 & 10/15 - District ELA Assessment 10/16 - District Math Assessment 10/16 - All Pro Dad at 7:45 a.m. Media Center 10/17 - Soaring Eagles FUNRUN 3rd grade at 9:45 - 10:45 10/18 0 No School Teacher Planning Resources this week: 10/15 - Music/P.E. Math: This week in math the students will solve real world problems involving all four operations with grams, kilograms, liters, and milliliters. They will begin to round two-digit and three-digit measurements to the nearest ten on the vertical number line. The students will also use the vertical number line to round numbers to the nearest hundred. They will begin to add measurements using the standard algorithm to compose larger units. Example problem using place value knowledge and vertical number line to round numbers:
Things to practice at home: Practice rounding numbers to nearest 10 and 100. Add and subtract numbers within 1,000. Continue practicing multiplication facts 2-10. Solve word problems involving all four operations (addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication). Practice using a number line and clock to solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes. Helpful math videos:
Science: This week in science we will continue learning about the properties of matter.
Upcoming events: 10/8 - Boosterthon Fun Run Kickoff 10/15 - SAC Meeting Media Center 6 pm 10/16 - All Pro Dads Media Center 7:45 am 10/17 - Boosterthon Fun Run Resources this week: 10/7 - P.E. 10/10 - Art Math: This week in math the students will build and decompose a kilogram to reason about the size and weight of 1 kilogram, 100 grams, 10 grams and 1 gram. They will develop estimation strategies by reasoning about the weight in kilograms of familiar objects to establish benchmark measures. The students will solve one-step word problems involving metric weights within 100 and estimate to reason about solutions. The students will decompose a liter to reason about the size of 1 liter, 100 milliliters, 10 milliliters, and 1 milliliter.
Example word problem involving metric weights:
Things to practice this week: Continue to practice multiplication facts 2-10 Practice solving 2-step word problems involving the four operations (multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction). Solve elapsed time word problems and practice telling time on a number line. Add and subtract within 1000. Helpful math videos:
Science: This week in science we will begin our unit on Properties of Matter.
Upcoming events: 9/30 - PTA membership deadline 10/2 - General PTA meeting 9 am 10/2 - National PTA School of Excellence Celebration 6 pm 10/8 - Boosterthon Fun Run Kickoff Resources this week: 9/30 - Music 10/2 - Art 10/3 - Music Math: This week in math the students will be counting by fives and one on the number line as a strategy to tell time to nearest minute. They will begin to solve real world word problems involving time intervals within 1 hour by counting backward and forward using the number line and clock. The students will tell and write time as the number of minutes past the hour and will measure elapsed time beyond one hour. Example word problem using clock and number line to solve:
Things to practice at home: Continue practicing multiplication facts 2-12. Practice telling time on the clock and discuss elapsed time (how much time has passed from the beginning of an activity to the end). Solve two step word problems involving the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division). Add and subtract within 1000. Helpful math videos:
Science: This week in science we will conclude our unit on the Practice of Science.
Upcoming events: 9/25 - Early Dismissal at 1:15 p.m. 9/25 - PTA Spirit Night 9/26 - Field Trip to Catty Shack - Cox homeroom/Townsend 9/27 (bring bag lunch) 9/30 - Eagle of the Month Ceremony 9/30 - End of Module 1 Assessment 10/2 & 10/5 - (Jacksonville Library Mandarin Branch will host a Science Fair Help program to help students choose a topic for their science projects.) Resources this week: 9/24 - Art 9/25 - Media 9/27 - P.E. Math: This week in math the students will continue to apply the distributive property of multiplication to decompose units in division problems. They will begin to solve two-step word problems involving multiplication and division, and assess the reasonableness of answers. The students will solve word problems with all four operations (multiplication, division, subtraction, and addition) and determine if using estimation strategies help in solving real world problems. We will be concluding our studies of Module 1 and begin to review for our end of module assessment. The students will begin Module 2 by relating skip counting by 5's on the clock and telling time on the number line. Example two-step word problem: There are 4 boxes with 6 binders in each box. Three brothers share the binders. How many binders does each brother get?
The students will begin to use a number line to solve elapsed time word problems.
Example of elapsed time word problem:
The school ballet recital begins at 12:17 p.m. and ends at 12:45 p.m. How many minutes long is the ballet recital?
Things to practice at home: Continue practicing multiplication facts 2-12. Use flash cards, make groups of objects, skip count to find product of 2 factors. Practice solving multiplication and division word problems. Use the distributive property of multiplication (break apart strategy) to solve multiplication facts. Practice telling time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals. Fluently add and subtract within 1000. Begin to round numbers to the nearest 10's and 100's. Helpful math videos:
Science:
This week in science we will perform a scientific investigation using scientific tools to make observations and inferences.
Upcoming events: 9/16 - Progress Reports go home 9/16 - Charleston Wrap Fundraiser Ends 9/17 - SAC meeting at 6:00 p.m. 9/17 - Girl Scout classroom visits 9/18 - All Pro Dads at 7:45 a.m. 9/18 - Girl Scouts Parent Night 6:00 p.m. 9/19 - Fall Pictures Resources this week: 9/16 - Art 9/18 - Music 9/19 - P.E. Field Trip Dates: 9/26 - Catty Shack 11/12 - Jacksonville Zoo 1/16 - IMAX 3/6 - Tree Hill Math: This week in math the students will be using skip counting strategies to continue to build fluency with multiplication using units of 4. The students will relate arrays to tape diagrams to model the commutative property of multiplication. They will also use the distributive property to find related multiplication facts and to decompose units. The students will continue modeling the relationship between multiplications and division. Using arrays to solve multiplication word problems:
Using distributive property to decompose and solve multiplication problem:
Using tape diagram to solve division problem:
Mrs. Townsend bought 4 packs of yogurt. She had exactly
enough to give each of her 24 students 1 yogurt cup. How
many yogurt cups are there in 1 pack?
Things to practice at home: Practice creating arrays and writing multiplication equations for the arrays. Use flash cards for multiplication fluency. Use the commutative property when working on multiplication facts. Use distributive property (breaking apart one of the factors) to solve difficult multiplication problems. Solve division problems at home. Helpful math videos:
Science: This week in Science we will continue discussing tools used by scientists during investigations.
Upcoming events: 9/12 - 3rd grade Open House rescheduled at 6:00 p.m. Resources this week: 9/11 - P.E. Math: This week in math includes completing lessons missed last week due to the hurricane. The students will focus their learning on the distributive property of multiplication. They will interpret the quotient in division problems as the number of groups or the number of objects in each using units of 2. Things to practice at home: Practice math facts 2-12 using flash cards, arrays, or groups of objects. Solve division word problems identifying the unknown in the problems. Skip count by 2, 3, 4, 5's. Helpful math videos:
Science:
This week in science we will continue discussing and identifying testable scientific questions and discussing scientific tools. The students will also discuss how scientists make inferences based on their scientific observations.
Upcoming events: 9/2 - Labor Day - No School 9/5 - Open House (currently scheduled) at 6:00 p.m. Resources this week: 9/3 - P.E. 9/6 - Music/Art Math: This week in math the students will continue learning about the commutative property of multiplication and will practice related facts by skip counting objects in array models. They will add and subtract equal groups in array models. The students will model the distributive property of multiplication with arrays to decompose units as a strategy to multiply. They will model division as the "unknown" factor in multiplication using arrays and tape diagrams.
Things to practice at home:
Continue to practice multiplication facts.
Use multiplication and division strategies to solve word problems.
Practice skip counting forwards and backwards by 2's, 3's 4's, and 5's.
Helpful math videos:
Parent Tips: We are learning to solve multiplication and division word problems. Your child has been learning to solve these using the following strategies:
arrays
tape diagrams
number bonds
An array is a way to represent multiplication using rows and columns. Rows represent the number of groups. Columns represent the number in each group of the size of the group.
We have learned that rows (groups) are drawn horizontally and columns (size) are drawn vertically.
A tape diagram is another way to represent information in a word problem. A tape diagram starts with a rectangle. The students must label the tape diagram with information found in the word problem. They have learned that multiplication and division problems always involve 3 things: number of groups, size of the group, and the total. The students will label the tape diagram with the information in the problem to help solve for the part missing or the unknown.
Below is an example of a multiplication problem using a tape diagram to solve the problem.
Karen has 5 boxes of cookies. There are 7 cookies in each box. How many cookies does Karen have in all?
This problem contains the following information:
number of groups: 5 boxes
size of the groups: 7 cookies
Students need to solve for the "unknown" or total number of cookies.
Tape diagrams can also be used to solve division problems. Example: Karen has 35 cookies. She packs them into boxes of 7. How many boxes does Karen pack? (The problem is telling how many cookies will be in each box. The students need to recognize this problem as a division problem.)
A number bond can also be used to solve problems. Example problem using a number bond to solve: Mr. Chang has 3 rows of chairs. He has 5 chairs in each row. How many total chairs does Mr. Chang have?
Science:
This week in science the students will discuss the difference between testable and non-testable questions in science. We will also begin to discuss tools scientists use to perform investigations.
