Welcome to week two of third grade! Our first week was very busy, but wonderful! We are really enjoying our new students! On Monday, students will bring home their Weekly Conduct Reports. Please initial at the bottom and return it the next day. It is blue. This will come home each Monday.
**** Mrs. Kluge's email is incorrect on the cards you have. The correct email is kluget@duvalschools.org
As stated in our previous post, we will continue our Duval County baseline assessments this week.
Monday, August 31: Reading - 80 minutes
Tuesday, September 1: Math - 80 minutes
Wednesday, September 2: Math - 80 minutes
Resources this week:
Kluge -
Tuesday: Media and music
Wednesday: PE
Friday: Art
Cox -
Tuesday: PE
Wednesday Media
Thursday: Art
ELA:
Students took home their first R.A.H. (Reading at Home) log on Friday. We walked through it step by step in class, but if you have any questions please let me know. They should record their reading at home on the bookmark AND the RAH log. RAH logs are due every Friday with a parent signature. If the log is lost, there is a tab above to print a new one.
On Monday students will receive their first spelling list. Please check the word work tab above for a word sort activity they can do at home to notice patterns. There will be a test on Friday.
The overall theme for our first nine weeks is how reading is powerful and how people around the world go to great lengths to access books and read. Our first text is Rain School. Last week, we learned a new term... "gist". The gist is the main or central idea, what is text is all about. The gist does not include a lot of details. We used a great tool to help us determine the gist.
Somebody (the main character)...
in (setting)...
wanted (motivation)...
but (problem)...
so (resolution)...
When we think about these specific elements and put them together, we can usually determine the gist or main idea. We can tell someone the gist of a paragraph, a chapter, or even a book. This is a good strategy students can use at home to talk about what they are reading.
This week, we will continue using Rain School and will lift evidence from the text to answer questions. Students will use sticky notes to mark text that supports their answers.
We will also revisit the strategy of using clues in text (context clues) to help us determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
Example from Rain School:
"He gathers grass and saplings with the other children, and they make a roof."
To figure out the meaning of saplings, we can use context clues... If Thomas gathers the sapling, it must be a noun, because he can pick it up. Also, he picks it up with the grass, so we can guess it might also be a plant. They use it to make a roof, and we have seen roofs in pictures made of grass and branches from trees. So a sapling must mean something like a branch.
MATH:
For our first week in math, we introduced multiplication
with the concept of repeated addition to find totals. The students used counters to make 4 equal
groups of 3. They learned to recognize equal groups of counters as units and
count units using language of groups and unit form: 4 equal groups of 3
counters make 12 counters, or 4 threes make 12.
The students related the equal groups of object in scattered forms to
the array model, making the connection between 1 equal group and 1 row in array
models. They distinguished between the number of groups and the size of groups
as they counted rows and how many in a row to write multiplication facts. They started modeling dividing a whole into
equal groups. They created pictures,
number bonds, and multiplication equations to model their understanding.
This week we will continue to work on understanding the
meaning of the unknown as the size of the group in division. Understanding the meaning of the unknown as
the number of groups in division and interpreting the unknown in division using
the array model. We will use the Read,
Draw, Write (RDW) strategy to solve math problems.
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Things
to Remember!!!
Array
– repeated
rows of numbers or objects
Multiply
- an
operation showing how many times a number is added to itself
Equal
groups – same
number of objects in each group
Factor
– number
of groups and the number in each group
Equation
– a
statement that two expressions are equal, for example 5 x 4 = 20
Divide – separate into equal groups
Math Homework:
Module 1 Lesson 4
Module 1 Lesson 5
Module 1 Lesson 6
--Practice skip counting by 2’s,
3’s and 4’s at home.
--Practice drawing model
representations or groups and ask your child to analyze the model.
For example: oo
oo oo
How many times do you see a
group of two? Have them count the groups, write the number sentence, and say
the words together.
3
groups of 2’s
3 x 2 = 6
SCIENCE:
This week in Science we will discuss that scientists raise questions about the natural world, investigate them through explorations and develop explanations based on their explorations. We will begin to understand that scientists question, discuss, and check each other’s evidence and explanations.
Our Book Fair days...
Tuesday, we will read The Incredible Book Eating Boy. Click on the cover to watch a teacher read it aloud. We will discuss reading stamina and talk about what it means... Students will also self-assess their reading stamina and set goals to improve. We will also look at individual data from our baseline assessments and our first reading fluency check to determine our reading strengths and where we need to work.
