Week of January 29, 2018

Upcoming events:
1/31 - Early dismissal 

Resources this week:
Cox:
Wednesday - Music
Friday - Art

ELA:
Please view Mrs. Townsend's dojo site for reading activities and information for the week.

Math:

In math we will begin to develop an understanding of fractions as numbers.  The students will partition or break apart a whole into equal parts, identifying and counting unit fractions using models or fraction strips.  They will describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, and eighths, and recognize that equal shares of identical wholes may not have the same shape.

                               

Things to practice and review at home:

Help your child partition things at home into equal parts (exa.  Pack of crayons, pieces of food, paper, pizza, 6 pack of sodas)

Practice adding and subtracting numbers within 1000.

Continue to review multiplication and division facts 2 to 10  

Practice solving two step word word problems involving all four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division).
Continue working on number patterns exa: 350, 344, 338, 332, ......
Please use the following site for homework help:
http://www.oakdale.k12.ca/ENY_Hmwk_Intro_math

Science:

The students will begin to gather information on specific stars to help them create a star poster in class with information about the size, color, brightness and interesting facts about their particular star.  (This research will be done both at home and in class.)  We will continue  learning about the sun’s energy and observe what effect sunlight has on objects.                                                                                                                                         

       

                                                      

                  

                

Week of January 22, 2018

Upcoming events:
1/23 - SAC (School Advisory Council) meeting 6 p.m. Media Center

Resources this week:
Cox:
Tuesday - a.m. P.E.
Wednesday - Music
Thursday - P.E.
Friday - Art

ELA:
Please check out Mrs. Townsend's dojo site for ELA activities and information.

Math:

In math the students will find areas by decomposing into rectangles or completing composite figures to form rectangles.  They will apply their knowledge of area to determine areas of rooms in a given floor plan. The students will continue solving word problems to find the possible side lengths of rectangles using the associative and distributive properties.

Examples of decomposing into rectangles or completing composite figures to form rectangles:

Students will choose appropriate methods for finding the area of composite shapes:

                                

Things to practice and review at home:

Explore number patterns:  For example: 267, 247, 237, …  what is the 5^th number in the pattern?

Developing fluency in skip counting by 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s, and 10’s.

Continue practicing adding and subtracting numbers within 1000.  Practice addition and subtraction problems with regrouping. 

Practice multiplication facts 2 to 10 and division facts 

Practice solving two step word word problems involving all four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division).

Please use the following site for homework help:
http://www.oakdale.k12.ca.us/ENY_Hmwk_Intro_math

Science:

The students will continue to investigate that the Sun is a star based on its properties.  They will explain how energy from the Sun can be beneficial and/or harmful.  The students will continue to learn that stars give off heat and light, however, all but the Sun are so far away that we cannot feel their heat.

                           

                    

                                                                                                                           

                                                                        

                        

Week of January 15 - 19, 2018

Upcoming events:
1/15 - No School MLK Day
1/17 - Report Cards go home

Resources this week:
Cox:
Wednesday - Music
Friday - Art

ELA:  
Please check out Mrs. Townsend's dojo site for ELA information and activities.

Math:

This week in math the students will analyze different rectangles and reason about their area.  They will find the area of a rectangle by multiplying the side lengths.  The students will apply the distributive property as a strategy to find the total area of a large rectangle by adding two products. They will solve problems to find the possible side lengths of rectangles with areas of 24, 36, 48, or 72 square units using the associative property.

Example Problem:

   

                              

 

Things to practice and review at home:

Explore number patterns:  For example: 47, 55, 63, …  what is the 5^th number in the pattern?

Developing fluency in skip counting by 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s, and 10’s.

Continue practicing adding and subtracting numbers within 1000.

Practice multiplication facts 2 to 10 and division facts (We will be testing our facts weekly.)

Practice solving two step word word problems involving all four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division).
Make rectangles with different areas and practice solving for area of shapes.
Please visit the following link for homework help:
http://www.oakdale.k12.ca.us/ENY_Hmwk_Intro_math

Science:

The students will continue to learn about different telescopes used by scientists to help in observing objects in the sky.  They will learn that the number of stars that can be seen through telescopes is dramatically greater that those seen by the unaided eye.  The students will learn about the Keck telescope one of the world’s largest land telescopes.

                       

                                                                                                                                                

                                                                        

                        

Week of January 8, 2018

Welcome Back! Hope everyone had a wonderful Winter break.  

Students will return on Tuesday January 9th.  

Upcoming events:
1/9 and 1/10 3rd grade Math mid-year testing
1/15 MLK Day No School

Resources this week:
Cox: 
Tuesday - Media/Music
Wednesday - P.E.
Thursday - Art

ELA:
Please check out Mrs. Townsend's dojo site for Reading and Social Studies information.

MATH:
This week in math the students will analyze different rectangles and reason about their area.  They will find the area of a rectangle by multiplying the side lengths.  

Example problem:

Marnie and Connor both skip-count to find the area of the same rectangle. Marnie counts, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21.  Connor counts, 7, 14, 21.  Draw what the rectangle might look like, and then label the side lengths and find

the area.

Things to practice and review at home:

Explore number patterns:  For example: 47, 55, 63, …  what is the 5^th number in the pattern?

Developing fluency in skip counting by 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s, and 10’s.

Continue practicing adding and subtracting numbers within 1000.

Practice multiplication facts 2 to 10 and division facts 

Practice solving two step word word problems involving all four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division).

A great resource for homework help: 
http://www.oakdale.k12.ca.us/ENY_Hmwk_Intro_math

Science:
The students will begin to learn about stars and discuss how stars are different and what makes up star patterns.  They will also begin to discuss  tools scientists use to observe objects in the sky.  The students will discuss how telescopes help scientists learn about space and what features of stars might a telescope allow scientists to see.

Week of December 18, 2017

We will not have school on Thursday or Friday.  Enjoy your Winter Break!

We are looking forward to our Winter Party on Tuesday, December 19.

Students will not need to bring a lunch that day. 

Week of December 11, 2017

Upcoming Events:

12/13 – Early Dismissal

12/15 – End of Module 3 Assessment

Resources this week:

Cox:

Tuesday - P.E. a.m.

Wednesday – Music

Thursday – Music

Friday – Media

Townsend:

Tuesday – Music

Wednesday – P.E.

Thursday – P.E.

Friday - Art

ELA:

Please check out Mrs. Townsend’s dojo site for reading information and activities.  Mrs. Rodgers is updating the site with new spelling words and reading information.

Math:

This week in math the students will complete module 3 lessons by solving two-step word problems involving multiplying single-digit factors and multiples of 10.  The students will begin to understand area (the amount of  space inside the boundary of a flat two-dimensional object) as an attribute of plane figures.  They will decompose and recompose shapes to compare areas.  The students will model filling in a shape with both centimeter unit and inch unit squares as a strategy to measure area.

Example of two-step word problem:

Example area problem:

 

Things to practice and review at home:

practice adding and subtracting numbers within 1000.

Practice multiplication facts 2 to 10 and division facts

Use the example area problem above to create practice problems at home
Please check out the homework help site below: 
http://www.oakdale.k12.ca.us/ENY_Hmwk_Intro_math

Science:

The students will continue learning about the different forms of energy and investigate observe and explain that things that give off light also give off heat.

            

                                                                                                             

                                                                        

                        

Week of December 4, 2017

Upcoming Events:

12/5- 12/8 - PTA holiday store  
12/4 & 12/7 – Achieve/ i-Ready Reading testing begins

12/7 & 12/12 – i-Ready Math testing

12/13 – Early Dismissal

Resources this week:

Cox:

Wednesday – Music

Thursday – P.E.

Friday – Art

Townsend:

Tuesday – Music

Wednesday – P.E.

Thursday – Art

ELA:

Please check out Mrs. Townsend’s dojo site for reading information and activities.  Mrs. Rodgers is updating the site with new spelling words and reading information.

Math:

This week in math the students will continue to interpret the unknown in multiplication and division to model and solve problems.  They will reason and explain math patterns using units of 0 and 1 as they relate to multiplication and division.  The students will solve two-step word problems involving multiplying single-digit factors and multiples of 10.  The students will multiply by multiples of 10 using place value chart and use place value strategies and the associative property n x (m x 10)= (n x m)x 10 (where n and m are less than 10) to multiply by multiples of 10.

Multiply by multiples of 10 using a place value chart.

Things to practice and review at home:

Practice adding and subtracting numbers within 1000.

Continue practicing multiplication facts 2 to 10

Continue practicing division facts

Practice using rounding strategies to round 2, 3, and 4 digit numbers

Practice interpreting word problems to determine solutions

Please check out the following homework help site http://www.oakdale.k12.ca.us/ENY_Hmwk_Intro_math

Science:

This week in Science the students will describe how light is reflected, refracted, and absorbed and demonstrate how light forms shadow.