It will be a fast a furious short week this week! In Math we just concluded our chapter on Addition with and without regrouping. The kids took at Chapter Test this past Friday. On Tuesday, we will be practicing four digit subtraction without regrouping at all to get them in the groove of subtracting again. On Wednesday the kids will be doing four digit subtraction with regrouping in the hundreds place only, and on Thursday it will be four digit subtraction in the ones, tens, and hundreds place. On Friday, all 3rd graders will have a substitute because it will be 3rd grades' planning day. In Math on Friday, the kids will review the weeks concepts and nothing new will be introduced. For homework this week we have taken from 2nd grades' Math in Focus resources online and will be sending home three digit subtraction problems your kids did last year in 2nd grade as a nice review and segway into what we are doing this week. The picture below represents what regrouping/borrowing means visually in subtraction.
This Friday will be the last Friday in the the 1st nine weeks. The fast facts test will be 20 subtraction problems in one minute. It will be taken as a grade. Your child's Fast Fact scores are 20% of their Math Average. Please study 5-10 minutes a night. The app Quick Math is an excellent resource for practicing facts.
In Science, The kids and I will review what we learned on Friday through our lab called The Great Ice Cube Race. The children that melted their ice cube the fastest did so by using friction and creating heat. Heat changes Matter. On Tuesday we will discuss heat further by talking about melting, freezing, evaporation, and condensation. On Wednesday will be our first Science Test on Matter. It will consist of some fill in the blank with a word bank to test vocabulary knowledge, some multiple choice to test content, and two short answer questions. On Thursday and Friday we will begin talking about mixtures and solutions.
Thank for reading!
Love,
Ms. S
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