Parents,
This week will be crazy. We will be NRT testing on Wednesday and Thursday this week and also will have our Valentines Party on Friday! Please make all efforts to have your child at school all week and not to schedule any doctors appointments in the afternoon on Wednesday and Thursday especially. If this cannot be avoided, your child will make up the portion of the test they missed with the principals at a later time.
On Monday and Tuesday we will review comparing fractions that we studied on Friday. Which fraction is greater? Which fraction is less? It's hard for third graders to make the realizations that the larger the denominator is of the fraction, the smaller the pieces actually are. On Wednesday, we will take everything that we have learned about fractions and practice them in word problems. The students will review how to read a word problem, decode what it means, decipher what it wants, and draw it out to solve. The kids will also be bringing that home for HW on Wednesday. Thursday is designated for NRT testing. On Friday, we will review fractions and take a Fraction Assessment over all of our Fraction learning. The entire test will be word problems. The students will need to apply the strategies that have been taught to attack these fraction word problems. Look for this assessment in your child's Tuesday News day folder and look over it with your child. Talk with your child about the importance of reading very carefully and how 1 word, like NOT, can change the entire meaning of a word problem.
A multiplication Fast Facts test will still be given on Friday and will be inputted into the grade book.
Science will be very limited this week and next due to NRT testing. Monday and Tuesday we will be studying the types of clouds and be adding facts to our cloud book that we will begin making.
Thanks for reading,
Ms.S
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