We have lots of news for this upcoming week!
1) Thursday and Friday are Noon Dismissal Days. Please send hand written notes if your child will be going home a different way from these two days. We look forward to meeting with each of you during our conferences. Please remember to arrive on time as we have back to back conference times.
2) Socktober Week is this week - remind your child to wear CrAzY socks all week! Our Leadership Council is collected items to donate to the Mission of Yahweh. We are needing items such as: socks, underwear, disposable diapers, and deodorant.
MATH
Last week in math, we wrapped up our study of rounding. We will continue working on rounding in our daily warm up problems. We discussed how rounding can be applied in many real world situations. I challenge you to ask your child to round the price of items or the amount of items you would need on your next visit to the grocery store. Rounding is a useful tool! This week, we will begin our next unit on subtraction. We will start our week with subtracting without regrouping. Throughout the week, we will subtract in the thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones place. You can expect a Problem of the Week to come home on Monday and it will be due on Friday. A review worksheet for place value will come home on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. On Friday, your child will complete a fast facts quiz with addition and subtraction - this will be for a grade.
SCIENCE
On Friday, we completed our unit on Matter. This week we will begin learning about mixtures. A mixture is when two or more substances are combined. I always imagine trail mix as an example. You are able to mix peanuts, M&M's, almonds, cashews, raisins. These things are mixed together, but can easily be taken apart.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Reading
This week we will wrap up our work on character traits. Students have been compiling a great list of words to use when describing a character in a story based on what they are thinking or how they are behaving. We've been mapping, together, how a character changes throughout a story. This week, students will try this learning on their own during independent reading.
Writing
For many weeks we will discuss narrative structure. To the right, you will see an example anchor chart used in the classroom to help us move from thinking about the beginning, middle and end of a story and move into thinking about the superstructure of a narrative. Words and ideas like setting the stage, initiating event, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution will be words that 3rd graders will learn and then be expected to use during discussions on mentor texts.
Word Work
Last week students took their first spelling tests and did very well. This week, we take an application grade and introduce a new spelling pattern. You are welcome to continue practicing at home. We will continue to practice 10-15 minutes each day in class. Teachers cannot email or post spelling lists due to copyright issues. Please talk to your student about the importance of keeping up with and bringing home their spelling practice list.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Landforms
We are starting a new unit in Social Studies, Geography. Our geography unit is made up of two parts, landforms and map skills. We will start the unit with a look at landforms. This week and last we review many landforms that are, hopefully, familiar to our students.
The BIG idea in social studies that we will try to drive home is that our daily life is affected by the land surrounding us. When we plan vacations, what we pack, what we do, and our travel are all determined by the land and water features surrounding our destination.
Some of our upcoming vocabulary will be:
Geography-the study of Earth’s features
Landform- natural features, or shapes, of the land including mountains, valleys, plains, plateaus, etc.
Climate- the kind of weather a place has over a long period of time
Human Feature- something that people add to the landscape, such as a building
Adapt- change to fit the environment
We've used this video and songs to help us remember the different types of landforms.
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